Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer (McLean)

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your data quality improvement experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad? Do you have the skills necessary to manage, understand, and analyze inhouse and customer data including text mining, developing predictive systems, risk scoring, creating efficient algorithms, data quality improvement and other related activities? Then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

About the Role
As a Generative AI and Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting product development efforts that range from generative AI and machine learning application development and deployment to model development and monitoring, ML management and DevOps. You will be a contributing member of a Software Engineering team that supports production applications and also helping to develop new features and models.

The role will interface with internal and external stakeholders and provide continuity of technical and data-exploration expertise to ensure we are delivering a workable solution that meets the customer requirements and technical capabilities. The position requires a proactive, mission-oriented person who strives to produce the best possible work for the customer.

As a Generative AI and Machine Learning Engineer , you will:

• Experiment and Develop: You will drive the end-to-end model development lifecycle, championing best practices to ensure reproducible research and well-managed software delivery.
• Collaborate:Working on a collaborative cross-functional team, you will share information, value diverse ideas, and partner effectively with colleagues across the globe. You will elevate and mentor teammates. You will work closely with product teams to see your work integrated and deployed into production environments.
• Deliver:With a sense of urgency and the desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you will translate complex business problems into projects with clearly defined scope. Our problems are complex; our solutions are right-sized. You will be accountable for timely, well-managed deliverables.
• Innovate:You will be empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will foster innovative ideas to solve real-world challenges. You will iterate on improvement rapidly with a mindset for failing fast and learning continuously from data.
• Inspire:You will be a proactive communicator who is excited to share your work. You will be articulate and compelling in describing ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. You will help lead the way in the adoption of AI across the enterprise.

About you
You're a good fit for the role of Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer if you have:

• Masters or Bachelors in a relevant discipline. Relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Proficiency in Python
• At least 3+ years practical, relevant experience building AI/ML products and applications and recent demonstratable experience using Generative AI technologies such as RAG patterns, ReAct, LangChain etc for performing document summarization, knowledge graphs, information extraction, or analysis.
• Solid software engineering skills and experience
• Experience as a technical leader, leading aspects of the following :aiding in the ideation with product stakeholders, comfort in dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity in problem statements and paths to success, breaking down complex problems into tractable components with iterative improvements, formulating research and development plans, coordinating and working with others, communication of progress and plans with varied stakeholders
• Hands on coding experience on AI/ML projects in current role and experience in designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models and algorithms
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance
• U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements

The following skills and tools are preferred, but not required

• 6+ years practical experience using AI and ML to solve diverse and/or ambiguous problems in academia or industry
• Experience with AI Agent frameworks and patterns
• Familiarity with common NLP use cases such as chatbot development and information retrieval (RAG), language translation, NER, summarization and topic modeling
• Familiarity with LLM training and efficient finetuning(PEFT, LoRA, Quantization)
• Experience with NLP/CV libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, spaCy, HuggingFace Transformers/Diffusers, OpenAI, LangChain, Semantic Kernel & OpenCV
• Experience using Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, etc.) for building and deploying applications
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment managing uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Proficiency in Python and experience delivering minimum viable products in a large enterprise environment
• Experience developing libraries and APIs for others to use
• Outstanding communication and data-driven decision-making collaboration with Product + Business Stakeholders
• Diverse experiences across problem spaces, companies and cultures

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Whats in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• 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 tomorrows 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.

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.
Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $134,680 - $250,120.
This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program