Senior Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval

Job description

Senior Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval About the Role: This role sits within Thomson Reuters Labs. You will design, build, and ship information retrieval and NLP systems that directly power Westlaw, Practical Law, and Checkpoint. The expectation is production-grade, measurable impact at scale for legal professionals globally. You will own technical delivery end-to-end across large-scale search system design, low-latency retrieval, and evaluation framework development. You will work closely with product and engineering to move from problem definition to shipped, reliable systems. About You: You hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, Information Retrieval, or a related field — or a Master's with equivalent depth of industry experience — with 5+ years of post-degree industry experience building and deploying IR and NLP systems in production commercial settings. You publish, you ship, and you measure success by what performs in production at scale. What You'll Do: Design and deploy large-scale information retrieval systems with explicit focus on search performance, latency optimisation, and retrieval quality at scale Own end-to-end model development across research,...