Senior Software Engineer - AI

Role Description

Are you a hands-on AI engineer who wants to build the next generation of legal AI solutions from the ground up? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - AI on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, turning architectural direction into robust, production-ready systems that legal professionals can trust.

You'll work closely with AI architects, legal AI experts, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact solutions that shape how legal work gets done.

In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer - AI, you will:

• Design and implement AI-powered solutions tailored to legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
• Build scalable, secure, and maintainable AI systems within architectural frameworks defined by the AI Solutions Architect, including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop and configure multi-step agentic workflows using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Implement observability, evaluation, and quality controls for production AI systems, including monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming protocols.
• Participate in technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows and business goals into clear engineering plans and prototypes.
• Partner closely with AI architects, legal AI engineers, and peers to deliver high-quality solutions, contribute reusable assets, and improve engineering practices across the team.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging AI techniques, interoperability standards, and prompt engineering approaches to improve solution quality and delivery speed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and clean architecture.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and backend engineering, with experience building RESTful APIs, async services, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen, along with solid understanding of RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD practices, and secure API development.
• Experience with observability and AI evaluation tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or Weights & Biases.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working independently in ambiguous, client-facing environments, including collaboration with legal professionals and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Flex My Way: Supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: Culture of continuous learning and skill development with tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.