Senior Applied Scientist, Search – Information Retrieval

Thomson Reuters

Senior Applied Scientist designing and deploying large-scale information retrieval and NLP systems at Thomson Reuters. Focused on production-grade impact and collaboration with product engineering teams.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,400 - $236,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deploy large-scale information retrieval systems with focus on performance and quality
Own end-to-end model development across research, data engineering, evaluation, and production deployment
Design rigorous evaluation frameworks covering metrics and relevance judgement
Translate business objectives into technical requirements
Partner with engineering on software delivery and MLOps processes
Operate iteratively in an agile environment
Communicate research through publications and patentable ideas
Guide and mentor junior scientists

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, Information Retrieval, or related field — or Master's with equivalent depth of industry experience
5+ years of post-degree industry experience building and shipping IR and NLP systems in production
Publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent
Production Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers
Hands-on production depth in large-scale information retrieval system design, search evaluation methodology, NLP system development, and translating complex business problems into AI solutions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flex My Way policies for better work-life balance
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing

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Hard Skills & Tools

information retrievalNLPmodel developmentevaluation frameworksMLOpsagile methodologyPythonPyTorchHugging Face Transformerssearch evaluation methodology

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solving

Certifications

PhD in Computer ScienceMaster's in related field