Data Scientist, Reuters

 Want to deploy your academic knowledge and practical skills in a hands-on, problem-solving position? Want to play a key role in how once 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...

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    

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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 anywhe