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Senior Applied Scientist, Search – Information Retrieval
Location
Minnesota
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$127.4K - $236.6K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Applied Scientist, Search – Information Retrieval
Thomson Reuters
• Design and deploy large-scale information retrieval systems with focus on performance and quality • Own end-to-end model development across research, data engineering, evaluation, and production deployment • Design rigorous evaluation frameworks covering metrics and relevance judgement • Translate business objectives into technical requirements • Partner with engineering on software delivery and MLOps processes • Operate iteratively in an agile environment • Communicate research through publications and patentable ideas • Guide and mentor junior scientists
Job Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, Information Retrieval, or related field — or Master's with equivalent depth of industry experience
- 5+ years of post-degree industry experience building and shipping IR and NLP systems in production
- Publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent
- Production Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers
- Hands-on production depth in large-scale information retrieval system design, search evaluation methodology, NLP system development, and translating complex business problems into AI solutions
Benefits
- Flex My Way policies for better work-life balance
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
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