Manager of Research Engineering, TR Labs

About the Role

In this opportunity as Manager of Research Engineering, you will:

Foster a culture of innovation, growth, and continuous improvement

Own the delivery of business-critical features for high-value, customer-facing applications

Promote efficient collaboration between scientists and engineers on a project basis

Operate with urgency and manage change at a rapid pace

Mentor and develop team members, helping build a pipeline of future leaders and prepare the team for organizational scaling.

Drive the technical roadmap of the team, in partnership with product, science, and the technical lead, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value while managing technical debt effectively

Contribute to the long-term technology strategy aligned with organizational goals, preparing the team for scalable growth

Other responsibilitiesinclude:Leadership:

Help champion a bold vision for your customers and products

Help align cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap

Work through influence toward results across cross-functional teams

Promote the adoption of advanced engineering practices within your team to foster innovation and efficiency, and contribute to broader adoption across research and product development teams

People Management:

Demonstrate strong people leadership, helping build a pipeline of future leaders

Ensure the team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support impactful work against team OKRs

Mentor, coach, and develop team members, helping prepare the team for organizational scaling

Set goals around talent development,diversityand inclusion, anddemonstrateprogress

Sphere of Influence:

Lead a cross-functional project team spanning research and engineering

Maintain a balanced strategic and tactical focus

Operate as an excellent cross-functional influencer, bridging the gap between applied science and production engineering

About You

You'rea fit for the role of Manager of Research Engineering if your backgroundincludes:
Required:

A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or the equivalent. Master's or PhD in a relevant specialization preferred.

Minimum of 7 years' software development experience, withdemonstratedability to successfully manage software development teams in an agile environment

1+ years in a people leadership and product development leadership role

Experience spearheading technical development in a cross-functional setting, with responsibility for ML applications; close partnership with Applied Scientists, R&D groups, or similar

A portfolioshowcasingsignificant contributions to technology innovation

Excellent project management, organization, and communication skills

Experience contributing to and overseeing large-scale rollouts and infrastructure initiatives

Expertisein several of the following areas: robust Python development,MLOps, containerization, cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)

Preferred:

Experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling

Experience in one or more of the following areas: advanced search and recommendation technology, orchestration of ML pipelines for real-time inference, microservices architecture, modelmonitoringand governance

Experience preforming software development with any of the following frontend technologies including React / Typescript / Tailwind.

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What’s in it For You?

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• 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 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.

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For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $158,900 USD - $295,100 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.
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