Lead Applied Scientist

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

4d•$147,600 - $274,200

About The Position

Thomson Reuters Labs (TR Labs), the AI Research & Development arm of Thomson Reuters, creates AI solutions for legal and tax and accounting professionals. The Lead Applied Scientist is a senior scientific leader who sets research strategy and leads initiatives shaping the organization’s AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features. The role drives innovation in areas such as legal reasoning, document understanding, and knowledge graphs, and establishes technical vision and best practices for other teams. The Lead Applied Scientist turns research into customer-facing capabilities by working with product, engineering, and business leaders. Responsibilities span research strategy, experimentation, production delivery, evaluation, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and thought leadership within Thomson Reuters and the wider AI community. The role calls for both deep technical expertise and a strong product mindset, with a focus on understanding complex customer problems in professional domains.

Requirements

PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
7+ years of hands-on experience building production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems using modern techniques.
Demonstrated experience leading through others in cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end AI capabilities.
Strong product mindset and 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 medicine, tax, or law.
Experience delivering production code with well-managed software and MLOps practices.

Nice To Haves

Publications at top-tier venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD.

Responsibilities

Define research strategy for focus areas and align it with Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features.
Lead high-impact initiatives from early experimentation through production-ready AI capabilities.
Drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, and knowledge graphs.
Design, evaluate, and advance RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, and tool-using systems for complex professional use cases.
Establish best practices, evaluation methodologies, and technical standards across Labs.
Understand customer problems and relevant data, and translate them into appropriate AI solutions.
Demonstrate how novel methods can influence product roadmaps and business outcomes.
Lead engagement with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
Mentor and develop scientists across Labs.
Provide thought leadership through internal forums, external publications, conferences, and industry communities.
Deliver production-quality code using well-managed software and MLOps practices.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Flexible vacation and paid time off.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.
Access to the Headspace app.
Retirement savings plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Two paid volunteer days off annually.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Paid holidays.
Parental leave.
Sabbatical leave.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Fitness reimbursement.
Employee Assistance Program.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance.
Optional life and AD&D insurance.
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit.