Research Engineer Intern

Summary:

Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in state-of-the-art machine learning engineering and research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a 16-month Research Engineering Co-op with a passion for solving challenging engineering problems in a data-rich and complex setting of Machine Learning and Generative AI.

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 a co-op, 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, fueled by an unprecedented wealth of data and powered by state-of-the-art technical infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to contribute to research publications 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.

NOTE: The co-op/internship duration for this position is 16 months.

About the Role

In this opportunity, as Research Engineer Co-op you will:

Innovate: You will have the chance to try new and/or innovate new ML/NLP/IR/GenAI engineering 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. 

Engineer and Develop: You can be involved in the entire research and model development lifecycle, brainstorming, designing, building, and delivering high-quality software frameworks that enable your colleagues to do world-class research.

Collaborate: Working on a collaborative global team of engineers and scientists both within Thomson Reuters and our academic partners at world-leading universities.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Research Engineer Co-op if your background includes:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline with a focus on AI or Machine Learning.

• Are eligible for participating in a 16-month co-op program.

• Excellent programming and debugging skills with Python and/or Rust.

• Have a strong desire to learn new technologies and frameworks and build working proof-of-concepts to demonstrate feasibility.

• Have strong problem analysis, problem-solving, and issue resolution skills.

• Can communicate effectively and professionally to both technical and non-technical users.

• Self-driven attitude and ability to work with limited supervision.

• (Bonus) Strong engineering skills, as evidenced by code contributions to popular open-source libraries.

• (Bonus) Have past co-op/internship experience working with Machine Learning/GenAI systems.

• (Bonus) Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

Other key points:

• Plenty of data, computing, 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.

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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: 

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

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

• Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower 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. 

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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