Senior Applied Scientist – Legal Tech

# **Our Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy****Thomson Reuters Labs**, where we experiment, build, and deliver cutting-edge solutions in machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and generative AI.Our flagship AI assistant, **CoCounsel****About the Role:**As a **Senior Applied Scientist**, you will:* **Innovate**: Develop new skills and capabilities for CoCounsel, focusing on areas such as document summarization, legal research, contract analysis, and reasoning improvement. Lead research initiatives in LLM benchmarking, grounding, LLM agents, and enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models.* **Build & Experiment**: Design, test, and deploy state-of-the-art models that expand CoCounsel’s ability to address complex, real-world tasks.* **Collaborate**: Partner with engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions.* **Mentor & Lead**: Guide and support junior researchers, fostering a culture of learning, creativity, and collaboration.* **Communicate**: Publish findings at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR) and contribute to patents, ensuring our solutions are cutting-edge and competitive.**Key Responsibilities:*** Drive the development of AI models to expand CoCounsel’s task-specific capabilities and overall performance.* Enhance CoCounsel’s reasoning, grounding, and responsiveness, ensuring it meets the needs of professional users.* Conduct experiments to evaluate AI performance, focusing on reliability, ethical considerations, and user alignment.* Work with engineering teams to deploy scalable, production-ready models and co-design ML Ops processes for monitoring and retraining.**About You:**You’re a fit for the role of **Senior Applied Scientist** if your background includes:**Senior Applied Scientist – Legal Tech**, is designed to streamline complex workflows for legal, tax, and business professionals. We’re seeking innovators to help expand its capabilities and impact. At Thomson Reuters Labs, we combine rigorous research with applied development to solve real-world challenges. From enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning to creating new skills for task-specific applications, we drive impactful solutions for professionals worldwide.PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field, or Master’s with equivalent research/industry experience.5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning models in NLP or IR applications. Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) and experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).Proven ability to translate complex problems into innovative AI applications. **Preferred Qualifications**: Experience developing and deploying AI assistants or task-specific skills in production environments. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and distributed machine learning systems. Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation, synthetic data creation, and efficient fine-tuning methods. Competitive benefits, including flexible work arrangements, research time, and professional development funding. At Thomson Reuters Labs, we understand that diversity of thought, background, and experience fuels innovation. If you’re excited about our work in areas such as LLM benchmarking, grounding, agents, and enhancing LLM reasoning abilities but aren’t sure you meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective and skills could be vital to driving our research and solutions forward.**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.**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. #J-18808-Ljbffr