Lead Applied Scientist, Search – NLP/GenAI

Thomson Reuters

. Lead the design, build, test, and deployment of end-to-end AI solutions for complex document understanding tasks in the legal domain .

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeZug • 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, build, test, and deployment of end-to-end AI solutions for complex document understanding tasks in the legal domain
Direct the execution of large-scale projects including advanced semantic chunking models for lengthy, non-uniformly structured legal documents
Serve as the technical lead and primary point of reference, ensuring full accountability for all research deliverables
Partner with engineering to guarantee well-managed software delivery and reliability at scale across multiple product lines
Design comprehensive evaluation strategies for both component-level and end-to-end quality
Lead knowledge distillation initiatives to compress large models into production-ready SLMs
Make critical technical decisions on semantic chunking strategies, document classification approaches, and multi-document reasoning architectures

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field, or a Master's degree with equivalent research/industry experience
Demonstrable hands-on experience building and deploying document understanding systems, information extraction pipelines, or knowledge graph construction using deep learning, LLMs, and NLP methods
Proven ability to translate complex document understanding problems into innovative AI applications that balance accuracy and efficiency
Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and influence without formal authority in an applied research setting
Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) and experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, DeepSpeed)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role)
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
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
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI solutionsdocument understandingsemantic chunking modelsinformation extractionknowledge graph constructiondeep learningLLMsNLP methodsPythondeep learning frameworks

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringinfluencing without authorityaccountabilityproblem translationinnovationcollaboration

Certifications

PhD in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in AI or related field