AI & ML Software Engineering Manager, TR Labs

Do you want to work at the forefront of ML/AI/LLMs applied to law? 

Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a AI & ML Software Engineering Manager with experience leading a team of engineers to build artificial intelligence (AI) powered applications for legal drafting and review. As a member of Thomson Reuters Labs, you will have a direct impact on the world by creating new and innovative products that improve the speed and quality of legal practice, transactional law, and more.  

 
What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? 

Labs supports the organization and our customers by applying AI/ML-oriented research and development to deliver new products and technologies to market. As a Software Engineering Manager at Thomson Reuters Labs, you will be part of Labs’ Legal Tech team responsible for delivering new features to a portfolio of legal products thousands of customers use to review and draft legal agreements, administer their practice, etc. 

Come join us!   

About the Role

As a AI & ML Software Engineering Manager you will:

• Manage: Direct the efforts of a small team of software engineers ensuring a high-performance culture, nurturing your team’s career development and managing their performance expectations. 
• Guide: Provide technical leadership partnering with other engineers to develop and improve methodology and evolve the technology stack. 
• Develop and Deliver: Applying modern software development practices, you will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, building, testing and delivering high-quality solutions. 
• Solve Complex Problems: You will create large scale data processing pipelines to help researchers build and train novel machine learning algorithms.  You will develop high performing scalable systems in the context of large online delivery environments. 
• Be a Team Player: Working in a collaborative team-oriented environment, you will share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross-functional and remote teams. 
• Be an Agile Person: Act with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you will deliver solutions against strict timelines.   
• Be Innovative: You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.   
• Be an Effective Communicator: Through dynamic engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members, you will effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments. 

About You:

You're a fit for the role of AI & ML Software Engineering Manager if your background includes:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Related Field.

• At least  8 years software engineering experience, ideally in the context of machine learning and natural language processing. 

• Have experience with people management responsibilities. 

• Have experience leading technical workstreams within a software engineering organization. 

• Experience and a deep understanding of Python software development stacks and ecosystems.  

• Experience in developing cloud-native applications in Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platform

• Proficient in systems design and consider DevOps/CICD/automation fundamental pillars of your work. 

• Have experience working in an agile environment 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating Machine Learning solutions into production-grade software with a sound understanding of the AI/ML development lifecycle  and the ability to translate the terminology and methods used by both engineers and scientists. 
• Exposure to C# and/or .Net Development is a plus.

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: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, 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: Ten 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.

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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 26,000 employees across more than 70 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.

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