Vice President, Model Research & Development
Core
Leading the end-to-end development of Thomson Reuters's proprietary LLM family (Thomson 1.0) for high-stakes professional workflows in law, tax, and compliance.
Role type
VP, Model Research & Development (Strategy & Organization Leadership)
Builds
Custom LLMs and agentic reinforcement-learning pipelines for CoCounsel, Westlaw, and Practical Law products.
Domain
Legal & Financial Technology (Regulated AI)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Program ownership of production LLMs, technical fluency in post-training methods (SFT, RL, distributed training), track record of shipping models or top-tier publications, leadership of large technical organizations, strategic delegation
Preferred skills
Domain expertise in law or tax, model safety and adversarial robustness policy setting
Technologies
LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Distributed Training Infrastructure
Responsibilities
Own the model-development roadmap (data strategy, training, evaluation, release), set targets for agentic RL pipelines, ensure rigorous data strategy and evaluation, enable new product capabilities on Thomson LLMs, build and retain senior talent, partner across product and editorial teams, make model-quality/safety/cost tradeoffs
Seniority
VP, Strategy & Organization Leadership