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Manager, Lead Research Scientist, LLM Agents (Foundational Research) Join Thomson Reuters to apply for the Manager, Lead Research Scientist, LLM Agents (Foundational Research) role in our Labs. About The Role In this opportunity, as Research Scientist Manager you will: 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: You will innovate and create new stateoftheart Agent AI/LLM Agent approaches at the cutting edge of AI research. You will contribute ideas and work on solving realworld challenges using a wealth of data in agentic contexts. Experiment and Develop: You are involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle, brainstorming, coding, testing, and delivering highquality reports at leading international academic conferences. Collaborate: Work on a collaborative global team of research engineers both within Thomson Reuters and our academic partners at worldleading 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). About You You''''re a fit for the role if your background includes: Required Qualifications PhD in a relevant discipline. 3+ years of handson experience leading teams building advanced ML / NLP / AI systems in academia (e.g. through student supervision) or industry. Strong publication record in toptier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR) with specific focus on agent systems, tool use, or multiagent coordination. Familiarity with one or more deeplearning 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, wellfounded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems. Good social skills and ability to motivate, inspire and mentor team members. Comfortable in working in fastpaced, agile environments, managing uncertainty and ambiguity. Preferred Qualifications Highimpact publications in toptier conferences or other influence in the research community. 5+ years of handson experience leading teams building advanced ML / NLP / IR systems in academia (e.g. through student supervision) or for commercial applications. Extensive experience with deep learning and largescale model training. Extensive experience working on agentbased systems, toolusing AI, or multiagent coordination in LLM contexts (e.g., startup, industry, or extensive opensource experience). Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills and ensuring wellmanaged software delivery, as evidenced by code contributions to popular opensource libraries or writing production code. Experience training largescale models over distributed nodes with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud. You Will Enjoy Learning and development: Onthejob coaching and learning as well as the opportunity to work with cuttingedge methods and technologies. Plenty of data, compute, and highimpact 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. Whats in it For You? Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (23 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our officebased roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected. Flexibility & WorkLife 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 worklife balance. Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver realworld solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skillsfirst approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AIenabled future. Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two companywide 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, awardwinning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, worklife 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 probono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Making a RealWorld 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. About Us Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We 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, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a worldleading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drugfree workplace. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com. Job Details Seniority level: MidSenior level Employment type: Fulltime Job function: Other Industry: Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr