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This role sits within the applied science function. You will own the design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems that directly power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel. The problems are real, the scale is large, and the expectation is shipped, reliable, measurable impact. You will work across semantic chunking, document enrichment, knowledge graph construction, and synthetic data generation for complex legal, tax, and accounting content. Multiple product teams depend on what this function delivers.
About You
You hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field, with 8+ years of post-degree industry experience taking NLP and document understanding systems from development to production at scale. You have hands-on depth across the full applied arc — model development, distillation, evaluation, and deployment. You publish, you mentor, and you measure success by what ships and performs in production.
- Design and deploy semantic chunking models for lengthy, non-uniformly structured legal documents with adjustable granularity across use cases
- Build document enrichment systems using legal and customer-defined taxonomies
- Develop LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link citations, entities, and legal concepts across diverse legal content
- Lead knowledge distillation efforts to compress large models into latency-constrained, production-ready SLMs
- Design evaluation frameworks — component-level and end-to-end — using expert annotation and synthetic data
- Own technical decisions on architecture, chunking strategy, classification approach, and knowledge extraction methods
- Partner with engineering on delivery, reliability, and scale across multiple product lines
- Provide technical input to senior leadership on AI strategy and roadmap
- Mentor applied scientists and ML practitioners on the team
Required Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field — required
- 8+ years of post-degree industry experience shipping document understanding, information extraction, or knowledge graph systems into production — not research-only experience
- Publications at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent
- Production Python and experience with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and DeepSpeed
Hands-on Production Depth Required In
- Document layout analysis and semantic chunking beyond fixed-size or paragraph-based methods
- Hierarchical, multi-label document classification with domain-specific and customer-defined schemas
- Entity recognition and linking, relation extraction, citation parsing, and knowledge graph construction from unstructured text
- LLM-based information extraction, few-shot and multi-task learning, and post-training
- Knowledge distillation, model compression, and SLM deployment under latency constraints
- Synthetic data generation and annotation workflow design
- End-to-end evaluation framework design for document understanding
Preferred Qualifications
- Legal document understanding, legal IE, or legal AI experience
- Complex document structures: nested hierarchies, cross-references, non-uniform formatting
- Retrieval or QA systems over large document collections
- RAG and agentic workflows in enterprise settings
- Knowledge graph frameworks for legal or enterprise applications
- AzureML or AWS SageMaker
New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.
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 exceed 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 $147,600 USD - $274,200 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $175,000 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 role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. This job posting will close 11/30/2026.
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. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
About The Role
This role sits within the applied science function. You will own the design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems that directly power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel. The problems are real, the scale is large, and the expectation is shipped, reliable, measurable impact. You will work across semantic chunking, document enrichment, knowledge graph construction, and synthetic data generation for complex legal, tax, and accounting content. Multiple product teams depend on what this function delivers.
About You
You hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field, with 8+ years of post-degree industry experience taking NLP and document understanding systems from development to production at scale. You have hands-on depth across the full applied arc — model development, distillation, evaluation, and deployment. You publish, you mentor, and you measure success by what ships and performs in production.
- Design and deploy semantic chunking models for lengthy, non-uniformly structured legal documents with adjustable granularity across use cases
- Build document enrichment systems using legal and customer-defined taxonomies
- Develop LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link citations, entities, and legal concepts across diverse legal content
- Lead knowledge distillation efforts to compress large models into latency-constrained, production-ready SLMs
- Design evaluation frameworks — component-level and end-to-end — using expert annotation and synthetic data
- Own technical decisions on architecture, chunking strategy, classification approach, and knowledge extraction methods
- Partner with engineering on delivery, reliability, and scale across multiple product lines
- Provide technical input to senior leadership on AI strategy and roadmap
- Mentor applied scientists and ML practitioners on the team
Required Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field — required
- 8+ years of post-degree industry experience shipping document understanding, information extraction, or knowledge graph systems into production — not research-only experience
- Publications at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent
- Production Python and experience with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and DeepSpeed
Hands-on Production Depth Required In
- Document layout analysis and semantic chunking beyond fixed-size or paragraph-based methods
- Hierarchical, multi-label document classification with domain-specific and customer-defined schemas
- Entity recognition and linking, relation extraction, citation parsing, and knowledge graph construction from unstructured text
- LLM-based information extraction, few-shot and multi-task learning, and post-training
- Knowledge distillation, model compression, and SLM deployment under latency constraints
- Synthetic data generation and annotation workflow design
- End-to-end evaluation framework design for document understanding
Preferred Qualifications
- Legal document understanding, legal IE, or legal AI experience
- Complex document structures: nested hierarchies, cross-references, non-uniform formatting
- Retrieval or QA systems over large document collections
- RAG and agentic workflows in enterprise settings
- Knowledge graph frameworks for legal or enterprise applications
- AzureML or AWS SageMaker
New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.
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 exceed 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 $147,600 USD - $274,200 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $175,000 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 role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. This job posting will close 11/30/2026.
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. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
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Target roles in legal and tax technology
Thomson Reuters builds software for legal, compliance, and financial professionals. Engineering, product, and data roles tied to these platforms are where sponsorship activity is most concentrated, align your application to these core business lines.
Understand they sponsor both H-1B and Green Cards
Thomson Reuters has sponsored both H-1B visas and employment-based Green Cards, which signals a willingness to support long-term immigration pathways, not just short-term work authorization. This matters if you're thinking beyond your first visa.
Frame your experience around enterprise software and data
Thomson Reuters competes in complex, regulated markets. Candidates who speak to experience with large-scale platforms, data pipelines, or compliance-adjacent technology will resonate more than those with a generic software engineering background.
Apply early in the H-1B cycle
If you need H-1B sponsorship, timing your application to Thomson Reuters between October and January gives the most runway before the April lottery registration window, enough time for interviews, offers, and LCA filing before the deadline.
Look for roles explicitly open to visa sponsorship
Not every Thomson Reuters job listing will offer sponsorship, it varies by team and headcount. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by real sponsorship history and avoid wasting applications on roles that won't support your visa.
Highlight specialized skills that justify the sponsorship investment
Thomson Reuters sponsors selectively, so candidates need to make the business case clear. Deep expertise in a niche area, legal AI, tax data infrastructure, regulatory compliance software, strengthens the argument for sponsorship over a U.S.-based generalist hire.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Thomson Reuters sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes, Thomson Reuters sponsors H-1B visas for qualifying roles in the United States. Sponsorship tends to be concentrated in technology and software functions, including engineering, data, and product development. The company has an established track record of H-1B filings, which signals a structured immigration process rather than case-by-case exceptions.
Does Thomson Reuters sponsor Green Cards?
Yes, Thomson Reuters has sponsored employment-based Green Cards alongside H-1B visas. The presence of both sponsorship types suggests the company is willing to support employees through longer-term immigration pathways, including EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Green Card sponsorship is typically offered to employees who have been with the company for some time in a sponsored role.
Which departments or roles at Thomson Reuters are most likely to receive visa sponsorship?
Visa sponsorship at Thomson Reuters is most common in technology and software roles, software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and machine learning engineers working on the company's legal, tax, and regulatory platforms. Corporate functions like finance or HR are less likely to involve sponsorship, though it's not impossible depending on the specialization.
How do I find open visa-sponsored jobs at Thomson Reuters?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find Thomson Reuters roles that come with verified sponsorship history. You can filter by company and visa type to see which positions are realistically open to H-1B or Green Card sponsorship, rather than applying speculatively to listings that may not support your situation.
How do I approach the application process at Thomson Reuters as a visa sponsorship candidate?
Be transparent about your visa needs early in the process, ideally in your initial application or recruiter screen. Thomson Reuters has internal immigration infrastructure, so this isn't an unfamiliar conversation for their HR teams. Coming prepared with your current status, authorization timeline, and any OPT or grace period deadlines will help recruiters assess your situation accurately and move quickly if there's a fit.