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As a member of Thomson Reuters Labs you will have a direct impact on our company by helping to create new and innovative capabilities that will delight our customers.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nIn this opportunity as a Lead Research Engineer, you will:\r\nBe a Leader: Provide technical leadership partnering with other engineers to develop and improve methodology and evolve the technology stack.\r\nDevelop and Deliver: Applying modern software development practices, you will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, building, testing and delivering high-quality solutions.\r\nBuild Scalable ML Solutions: Create large scale data processing pipelines to help researchers build and train novel machine learning algorithms. Develop high performing scalable systems in the context of large online delivery environments.\r\nBe a Team Player: Working in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross-functional and remote teams.\r\nBe an Agile Person: With a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, deliver timely solutions.\r\nBe Innovative: Empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies, contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.\r\nBe an Effective Communicator: Through dynamic engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members, effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments.\r\nAbout You\r\nYou are a fit for the Lead Research Engineer role if your background includes\r\nA Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Field.\r\nAt least 8 years software engineering experience, of which at least 2 years working on a Machine Learning related product or solution.\r\nExperience leading technical workstreams within a software engineering organization.\r\nSkilled and have a deep understanding of Python software development stacks and ecosystems; experience with other programming languages and ecosystems is ideal.\r\nCan understand, apply, integrate and deploy Machine Learning capabilities and techniques into other systems.\r\nFamiliar with the Python data science stack through exposure to libraries such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Dask, spaCy, NLTK, scikit-learn.\r\nTake pride in writing clean, reusable, maintainable and well-tested code.\r\nDemonstrate proficiency in automation, system monitoring, and cloud-native applications, with familiarity in AWS or Azure (or a related cloud platform).\r\nProficient in system analysis and design; consider DevOps and automation as fundamental pillars of your work.\r\nHave a desire to learn and embrace new and emerging technology.\r\nCan demonstrate adaptability and thrive in a dynamic environment, successfully managing and delivering high-quality results when faced with fluid requirements.\r\nFamiliar with probabilistic models and understand the mathematical concepts underlying machine learning methods.\r\nExperience leading and/or mentoring teams.\r\nProviding guidance around roadblocks for team.\r\nExperience providing updates to internal stakeholders.\r\nPreferred Skills & Experience\r\nExperience integrating Machine Learning solutions into production-grade software with a sound understanding of ModelOps and MLOps principles.\r\nPrevious exposure to Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems and familiarity with key tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Information Extraction, Information Retrieval.\r\nHands-on experience in other programming and scripting languages (Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.).\r\nWhat's in it For You?\r\nHybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.\r\nFlexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.\r\nCareer Development and Growth: Foster a culture of continuous learning and skill development.\r\nIndustry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to Headspace, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for wellbeing.\r\nCulture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.\r\nSocial Impact: Opportunity to help make an impact in your community through Social Impact Institute.\r\nMaking a Real-World Impact: Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.\r\nAbout Us\r\nThomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.\r\nWe serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions.\r\nThomson Reuters is a world-leading provider of trusted journalism and news.\r\nWe are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries.\r\nThomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.\r\nThomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. 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