Research Scientist Intern at Thomson Reuters

Job Description:

Research Scientist Intern

Are you a curious and innovative thinker with experience doing machine learning research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a machine learning scientist intern with experience in natural language processing, information retrieval, and AI agent design and evaluation.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do?

We experiment, build, and deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research and development of new products and technologies. The Labs team innovates across our core segments in Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News. We undertake a diverse portfolio of projects, while investing in long term research for the future.

As a Research Scientist Intern, you will contribute to foundational research focused on building the next generation of machine learning systems that power our products.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Research Scientist Intern, you will:

• Research and Design: Research and design a new method, framework, or evaluation for search, deep research, or document drafting. Your work will build on state-of-the-art methods in the machine learning literature and focus on making a novel contribution that pushes the boundaries of what's achievable in our domain.

• Experiment: Run experiments to test your idea using both internal and public data, validating the generality and practicality of your approach.

• Influence and Share: Have the opportunity to publish your research and influence the direction of applied science work within Thomson Reuters Labs. At the end of your internship, you'll share your experimental findings and recommendations for using your work within internal systems.

Required Qualifications:

You are a fit for the Research Scientist Intern role if your background includes most of the following:

• Are currently enrolled in a PhD program in a relevant discipline and have research experience.

• Have published research in top conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNIGIR, ECIR, AAAI or other related venues.

• Have expertise in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing, including training and evaluating language models and building AI Agents.

• Are versed in the scientific method, have strong statistical thinkesigning and evaluating machine learning experiments.

• Are experienced in one or more programming languages (preferably Python) and have experience working in the Cloud (such as AWS or Azure).

• Have experience with ML/NLP libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow,and HuggingFace.

• Are comfortable using AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, oring.

• Are experienced working with unstructured datasets and are knowledhniques for data cleaning and processing.

• Have good communication and writing skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.

• Are experienced using AI to assist you without outsourcing your critical thinking.

Preferred Qualifications

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

What’s in it For You?

Flexibility & Work-Life 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 work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide 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, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life 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 pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $0 USD - $0 USD.
For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $0.00 CAD - $0.00 CAD.

Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

This job posting will close 12/31/2026.

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 world leading 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.

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