Manager, Research Engineering (Foundational Research)

Thomson Reuters • london, england • Posted June 15, 2026

About the Role

Join a cutting-edge research team working to deliver on the transformation promises of modern AI. We are seeking a Manager, Research Engineering with the skills and drive to manage a top performing Engineering team focused on developing the latest in LLM and Machine Learning capabilities.

Foundational Research is the dedicated core Machine Learning research division of Thomson Reuters. We are focused on research and development, with a particular focus on advanced algorithms and training techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs).

Our Focus Areas Are

  • LLM Training (Continued pretraining, instruction tuning, reinforcement learning, distributed training, efficient ML techniques)
  • Post-training techniques for planning, reasoning & complex workflows (e.g., reasoning models, LLMs + knowledge graphs, test time compute, CoT pipelines, tool use & API calling, etc.)
  • Data-centric Machine Learning (Synthetic data, curriculum learning, learn...