Data Contributor Jobs at Thomson Reuters with Visa Sponsorship

INTRODUCTION

Want to deploy your academic knowledge and practical skills in a hands-on, problem-solving position? Want to play a key role in how one of the world’s most powerful newsrooms designs and implements solutions that ensure our news gets to the right people at the right time? Well this might be the role for you...

ABOUT THE JOB

Reuters is looking for a Data Scientist to help create artificial intelligence products for Reuters News. As a Data Scientist, you’ll create deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models using state-of-the-art research and cloud platform solutions, maintaining a special focus on data preparation, testing and evaluation of metric performance.

In this varied role, you’ll work on both news technology projects that will play a crucial role in supporting both our global newsrooms as well as the strategy and execution of Reuters’ news production efforts. As such, you’ll work with a range of stakeholders both within the newsroom and with the wider business to determine the path forward in how Reuters puts stories out into the world, from a technological perspective.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Data Scientist at Reuters you will:

• Work as part of a collaborative team that works closely with the CTO on both AI and non-AI software products that power Reuters’ global newsrooms in real-time.
• Work in both a strategic and practical manner, building great news solutions that will aid the way in which Reuters newsrooms use video, photo and text multimedia when getting crucial information around the world at high speed.
• Use your analytical skills to gather and prepare datasets whilst training analytical models. This work will be key to Reuters’ delivery of news to its different global audiences, but will also be key to our understanding of how our audiences are using and consuming news.
• Assist with evaluating systems, including the use of performance metrics that allow different business units to make great strategic decisions in a technological space.
• Be a great listener and problem solver. You’ll work closely with both editorial and technological stakeholders internally to understand pain points, areas for innovation, and will establish the best course of action, in building and delivering practical, innovative solutions with its users’ needs at heart.

ABOUT YOU

You’re a fit for the role of Data Scientist at Reuters if you have:

• Demonstrable experience in Python with strong grasp of software engineering standard methodologies such as code-reusability, modularity, use of repos, etc.
• Demonstrable, applied experience in ML, deep learning or Computer Vision.
• Have demonstrated expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks such as feature engineering, image processing, NLP, or model training.
• Knowledge and experience with recent machine learning frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining high quality, robust and maintainable code.
• Experience in automation, system monitoring, and cloud-native applications, with familiarity in AWS or Azure.
• Ability to work with large data sets, including preparation, labelling, and analysis tasks.
• Comfortable with Agile practices.
• Comfortable with giving web presentations on investigations or work.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve 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 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.

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.

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 $94,000 USD - $175,000 USD.

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.

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.

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