Manager, Lead Research Scientist, Training Data (Foundational Research)

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Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in conducting state-of-theart foundational machine learning research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking Research Scientists with a passion for building complex AI systems in a data-rich, complex academic environment driven by real-world problems.

Foundational Research is the dedicated core Machine Learning research division of Thomson Reuters. We are focused on research and development, with a particular focus on advanced algorithms and training techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs). We are building a strong foundation of research capabilities across different areas and are looking for managers who can inspire and guide their teams, are willing to roll up their sleeves and participate in designing, coding, conducting experiments, and translating findings into concrete deliverables. Our focus areas are:

• LLM Training (Continued Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Reinforcement Learning Alignment, Distributed Training, Efficient ML techniques)
• Data-centric Machine Learning (Synthetic Data, Curriculum Learning, Learned datamixtures, etc.)
• Post-training techniques for planning, reasoning & complex workflows (e.g., Reasoning Models, LLMs + Knowledge Graphs, Test time compute, CoT pipelines, Tool use & API calling, etc.)
• Evaluation (Benchmarks, Human-in-the-loop, red teaming/Adversarial Testing, Hallucination detection, ...)
  
  
  

• Lead: You will be involved in strategic planning, hiring and the management in foundational research. This gives you the opportunity to master your management skills, mentor, lead and help direct reports grow and contribute to the wider group.
• Innovate: Innovate: You will work at the very cutting edge of AI Research at an institution with some of the richest data sources in the world. Through your work, you will help us make the best use of this resource, in a dynamic flywheel that connects data collection & annotation with model training and expert evaluation, helping us continuously improve our training data. You will also develop novel performance-driven data sub-selection methods together with the latest training insights from our researchers.
• Experiment and Develop: You are involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle, brainstorming, coding, testing, and delivering high-quality reports at leading international academic conferences.
• Collaborate: Working on a collaborative global team of research engineers both within Thomson Reuters and our academic patterns at world-leading universities.
• Communicate: Actively engage in sharing our technical findings with the wider community through contributions to seminars, lectures, conferences and/or the sharing of publications and/or technical assets (data & models).
  
  
  

• PhD in a relevant discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience leading teams building advanced ML / NLP / AI systems in academia (e.g. through student supervision) or industry.
• Strong publication record in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR) ) with specific focus on training data curation, synthetic data generation, etc.
• Familiarity with one or more deep learning frameworks (e.g. pytorch, jax, tensorflow, …)
• Experience in ML Research beyond completing a PhD (e.g. supervision, industry experience, leading academic initiatives, …).
• Excellent communication skills to report and present research findings and developments clearly, both orally and in writing.
• Curious and innovative disposition capable of devising novel, well-founded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems.
• Good social skills and ability to motivate, inspire and mentor team members.
• Comfortable in working in fast-paced, agile environments, managing uncertainty and ambiguity.
  
  
  

• High-impact publications in top-tier conferences or other influence in the research community.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience leading teams building advanced ML / NLP / AI systems in academia (e.g. through student supervision) or industry.
• Extensive experience with deep learning and large-scale model training.
• Extensive experience working with LLM training-data, ideally by being involved in the training of large-scale foundation models (e.g. startup, industry, or extensive opensource experience).
• Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills and ensuring well-managed software delivery, as evidenced by code contributions to popular open-source libraries or writing production code.
• Experience training large-scale models over distributed nodes with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud.
  
  
  

• Learning and development: On-the-job coaching and learning as well as the opportunity to work with cutting-edge methods and technologies.
• Plenty of data, compute, and high-impact problems: Our scientists and engineers get to explore large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights. Thomson Reuters is best known for the globally respected Reuters News agency, but our company is also the leading source of information for legal, corporate, and tax & accounting professionals. We have over 60,000 TBs worth of legal, regulatory, news, and tax data. We also provide access to all major cloud computing platforms to our researchers and engineers.
• Competitive compensation & benefits packages: The opportunity to earn while learning new skills
  
  
  

• 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.
  
  
  

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