Principal Scientist

Thomson Reuters

. Define research strategy and lead high-impact initiatives that shape Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $184,100 - $341,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define research strategy and lead high-impact initiatives that shape Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features.
Drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, or knowledge graphs, establishing best practices and technical vision.
Provide thought leadership internally and externally, mentoring scientists across Labs and leading stakeholder engagement.
Develop a deep understanding of customer problems and the data that informs them.

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
8+ years of hands-on experience building production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems leveraging modern techniques
Demonstrated experience leading through others in cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end AI capabilities
Strong product mindset with ability to translate complex customer problems into successful AI applications
Proven ability to demonstrate novel methods that influence product roadmaps and business outcomes
Outstanding communication and analytical skills
Deep expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, and evaluation methodologies
Significant experience developing novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law
Publications at top-tier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD)
Experience delivering production code with well-managed software/MLOps practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually.
Additional Benefits: Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingInformation RetrievalGenerative AIRAG architecturesAgentic frameworksTool-using systemsEvaluation methodologiesSoftware/MLOps practicesProduction code development

Soft Skills

Thought leadershipMentoringStakeholder engagementAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsProduct mindsetCross-functional team leadershipInnovationProblem-solvingCustomer understanding

Certifications

PhDMaster's degree