You are a recognized AI leader with deep expertise in Information Retrieval, Search, NLP, and Generative AI. You have a track record of turning cutting-edge research into production solutions that deliver measurable customer value.
You hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, or a related field, with 8+ years of industry experience building and deploying AI systems at scale. You bring strong technical depth across retrieval, ranking, RAG, agentic systems, and knowledge-based AI, while also possessing the product mindset and leadership skills needed to influence strategy and drive business impact.
In this position, you will:
Define and drive the technical vision for AI-powered search, discovery, and knowledge systems.
Lead development of retrieval, ranking, semantic search, RAG, and agentic AI capabilities.
Design and optimize retrieval architectures using embeddings, reranking, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and contextual retrieval techniques.
Establish evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for search quality, relevance, grounding, and answer quality.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to translate customer needs into scalable AI solutions.
Provide technical leadership on AI strategy, roadmap planning, and investment decisions.
Mentor scientists and engineers while promoting best practices across the organization.
You're an ideal fit if you have:
A PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, or a related field.
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Production development using Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, and modern MLOps practices.
You also have a strong publication record in leading venues such as SIGIR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, WWW, RecSys, or comparable conferences, demonstrating your ability to advance state-of-the-art research and translate innovation into real-world business impact.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building enterprise search, discovery, or research-assistance platforms.
Experience within Legal, Tax & Accounting, Risk, Financial Services, Healthcare, or other complex professional domains.
Experience with hybrid search, vector databases, recommendation systems, knowledge graphs, and large-scale retrieval platforms.
Experience deploying and operating AI solutions using Azure ML, Azure AI Foundry, AWS SageMaker, or similar cloud platforms.
Experience mentoring scientists and leading large-scale AI initiatives.
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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 wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers 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. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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.
Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $212,100 USD - $393,900 USD.

Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.
This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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