Applied Research Intern

Thomson Reuters • Eagan, MN

21h

About The Position

As an AI Applied Research Intern, you will work with a cross-functional team at the intersection of science, product, and engineering to: Innovate: Research state-of-the-art techniques for developing and maintaining long-term memory functionality in AI-agentic systems. You will have the opportunity to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will contribute ideas and work on solving real-world challenges, ranging from deep research on legal documents to drafting long-form documents in the space of litigation and transactional law. Experiment and Develop: You can be involved in the entire model development lifecycle, building, testing, and delivering high-quality solutions. You will gain hands-on experience in optimizing datasets for agent development, model training and adaptation, and evaluation, and developing automated techniques for the design and evaluation of AI agents. Collaborate: Working on a collaborative cross-functional team, you will learn from and partner with colleagues across the globe.

Requirements

• A PhD student (or a recent MSc graduate) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines.
• Have a solid understanding and experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), and Machine Learning (ML) methods, including classic methods, deep learning (DL), and large language models (LLM).
• Experienced in one or more programming languages (preferably Python) and have experience working in the collaborative (e.g., Git) and Cloud (preferably AWS) environments.
• Have experience with ML/DL/NLP/LLM libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, spaCy, HuggingFace, LangChain, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, etc.
• Are comfortable working with unstructured datasets and are knowledgeable about tools and techniques for data cleaning and processing.
• Have good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Publication on a relevant topic and at NLP/IR/ML venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD, ICLR, ICML, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• The ideal candidate will have a background in NLP, experience building with LLMs, Python proficiency for rapid prototyping, and the soft skills to bridge technical and business perspectives
• Experience working on legal AI systems (e.g., legal drafting, contract analysis, legal research, etc.)
• A law degree (J.D.), paralegal experience, etc.
• Domain knowledge in legal, tax, or accounting.

Responsibilities

• Research state-of-the-art techniques for developing and maintaining long-term memory functionality in AI-agentic systems.
• Be involved in the entire model development lifecycle, building, testing, and delivering high-quality solutions.
• Gain hands-on experience in optimizing datasets for agent development, model training and adaptation, and evaluation, and developing automated techniques for the design and evaluation of AI agents.
• Learn from and partner with colleagues across the globe.

Benefits

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• 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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• 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.
• Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
• market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern