Research Scientist Intern

Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in conducting state-of-the-art foundational machine learning research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking Research Scientist Interns with a passion for solving complex machine learning problems in a data-rich, complex academic environment driven by real-world problems.

**Foundational Research** is the dedicated core Machine Learning research division of Thomson Reuters. We are focused on research and development, with a particular focus on advanced algorithms and training techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs). We are building a strong foundation of research capabilities across different areas and are looking for interns who participate in designing, coding, conducting experiments, translating findings into concrete deliverables and engaging with the academic community. Our focus areas are:

- LLM Training (Continued Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Reinforcement Learning Alignment, Distributed Training, Efficient ML techniques)
- Post-training techniques for planning & reasoning (e.g. LLMs & Knowledge Graphs, Advanced Prompting, CoT pipelines, RAG, Tool use, etc.)
- Data-centric Machine Learning (Synthetic Data, Curriculum Learning, learned data-mixtures, etc.)
- Evaluation (Benchmarks, Human-in-the-loop, red teaming/Adversarial Testing, Hallucination detection,...)

As a Research Scientist Intern, you will work along and learn from 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. You will have the opportunity to publish your research findings 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 pursuit of academic excellence and support of high-growth products that serve Thomson Reuters customers in new and exciting ways.

The internship duration at Thomson Reuters Labs is typically 4 to 6 months and may be aligned with one or two academic semesters or depending upon your availability.

**About the role**

In this opportunity, as a Research Scientist Intern you will:

- _ Innovate:_ You will have the opportunity to innovate and create new state-of-the-art ML/NLP/IR/GenAI approaches at the cutting edge of AI research. You will work closely with a Research Scientist to contribute ideas and work on solving real-world challenges using a wealth of data.
- _ Experiment and Develop_: You are involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle, brainstorming, coding, testing, and delivering high-quality reports at leading international academic conferences.
- _ Collaborate: _Working on a collaborative global team of research engineers both within Thomson Reuters and our academic patterns at world-leading universities.
- _ Communicate_: Actively engage in sharing our technical findings with the wider community through contributions to seminars, lectures, conferences and/or the sharing of publications and/or technical assets (data & models).

**About you**

You're a fit for the role if your background includes:

- Required qualifications: _
- PhD student or recent graduate with research experience in a relevant discipline.
- Publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR).
- Familiarity with a deep learning framework (e.g. pytorch, jax, tensorflow,)
- Excellent communication skills to report and present research findings and developments clearly, both orally and in writing.
- Curious and innovative disposition capable of devising novel, well-founded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems.
- Preferred qualifications: _
- Experience working on at least one relevant state-of-the-art research topic (see our focus areas) in large language models (LLMs).
- First author publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR).
- Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills with supporting evidence.
- Experience training large-scale models over distributed nodes with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud.
- You will enjoy:_
- Learning and development: On-the-job coaching, mentorship and learning from a world-leading researcher as well as the opportunity to work with cutting-edge methods and technologies.
- Plenty of data, compute, and high-impact problems: Our interns get to explore large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights. 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.
- Competitive compensation: The opportunity to earn while learning new skills.

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