Senior Applied Scientist

About the Role Are you ready to work at the forefront of applied AI research, where your work reaches real customers instead of staying in a lab notebook? Thomson Reuters Labs (TR Labs) is the AI Research & Development arm of Thomson Reuters. We experiment, we build, we deliver. Our mission is to create industry-leading AI solutions for Legal, Tax & Accounting, Risk, and News Media professionals. We systematically explore emerging AI/ML technologies, and we stay focused on real customer problems and opportunities. The Senior Applied Scientist is an experienced scientific leader within TR Labs. In this role, you will own end-to-end applied research projects that drive product innovation in legal intelligence, tax automation, and regulatory compliance. You will translate business challenges into technical solutions, determine feasibility, and deliver scalable AI capabilities. You will bring senior-level technical judgment to decisions about what to build, how to evaluate it, and when it is ready to ship. You will also mentor scientists and influence technical direction within your team. This role is a step toward broader scientific leadership, and you will begin to grow and scale your impact as you go. This is a role for someone who wants their ideas to ship. You will turn new methods into AI capabilities that customers use every day. What You'll Do • Lead end-to-end applied research projects from early experimentation through to scalable, production-ready AI capabilities. • Drive product innovation in legal intelligence, tax automation, and regulatory compliance. • Translate business challenges into technical solutions and determine their feasibility. • Design and evaluate RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, and tool-using systems for complex professional use cases. • Apply senior-level technical judgment and rigorous evaluation to ensure solutions meet the quality bar. • Develop novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver AI projects from concept to customer. • Influence technical direction within your team through clear communication. • Mentor scientists and help them grow. • Start to grow and scale your impact beyond individual projects. About You You are an experienced scientist who gets energy from turning hard business problems into working AI solutions. You are comfortable moving between research and delivery, and you can own a project from first idea to production. You combine years of hands-on experience in modern AI with outstanding technical judgment. You are curious about the professional domains you work in, whether that is law, tax, medicine, or risk. You want to understand customers' problems well enough to solve them properly. You work well in collaborative, cross-functional environments. You build trust through evaluation expertise and clear communication. You influence technical direction by helping the people around you succeed. Qualifications • PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems using modern techniques. • Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end AI project delivery in collaborative, cross-functional environments. • Outstanding technical judgment and evaluation expertise. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction. • Experience developing novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law. • Expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, or orchestration patterns. • Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD. #LI-MW1 This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization. What’s in it For You? • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected. • 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. • Culture: 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