Research Scientist Intern (Foundational Research, Machine Learning)

Key Skills

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Large Language Models - LLMs, Linux Operating system, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, PyTorch, UI design, Unix Operating system, UX design

Job Description

Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in state-of-the-art foundational machine learning research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Research Scientist Intern with a passion for solving challenging machine learning problems in a data-rich, complex academic environment.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We support the organization and our product teams through foundational research and development of new products and technologies. The Labs innovate collaboratively across our core segments in Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News.  We undertake a diverse portfolio of projects today, while investing in long term research for the future.

As an intern, you will be part of a diverse global team of experts. We hire world-leading specialists in ML/NLP/GenAI, as well as Engineering, to drive the company’s leading internal AI model development, fuelled by an unprecedented wealth of data and powered by state-of-the-art technical infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to publish your research findings as well as contribute to our proprietary AI model research & development. Thomson Reuters Labs is known for consistently delivering successful data-driven Artificial Intelligence solutions in support of high-growth products that serve Thomson Reuters customers in new and exciting ways.

The internship duration at Thomson Reuters Labs is typically 4 to 6 months and may be aligned with one or two academic semesters or depending upon your availability.

About the Role 

In this opportunity, as Research Scientist Intern you will:

Innovate: You will have the opportunity to try new and/or innovate new ML/NLP/IR/GenAI approaches and enjoy mentoring by world-leading experts. You will contribute ideas and work on solving real-world challenges using a wealth of data not otherwise available. 

Experiment and Develop: You can be involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle, brainstorming, building, 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.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Research Scientist Intern if your background includes:

Required qualifications:

• PhD student or recent graduate with research experience in a technical discipline.
• First-author publications at relevant venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR, or similar.
• 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.
• Self-driven attitude and ability of working with limited supervision.
• Comfortable in working in fast-paced, agile environments, managing uncertainty and ambiguity.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on relevant state-of-the-art research topics in large language models (LLMs) such as alignment, hallucination detection and reduction, model compression, data-centric techniques, efficient fine-tuning, long context length, synthetic data, combination of LLMs with knowledge graphs etc.
• Familiarity with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Previous experience working on large-scale machine learning systems.
• Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills, as evidenced by code contributions to popular open-source libraries.

Other key points:

• Plenty of data, compute, and high-impact problems: Our scientists and engineers get to play with large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights in support of our high-impact products and customers. 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.

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

DISCLAIMER

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.