Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE

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.

About the Role

• 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.

About You

• 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 and Compensation

• Competitive base pay ranging from $118,400 USD to $219,800 USD, with annual bonus potential.
• Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance through Flex My Way policy, enabling work from anywhere up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth via Grow My Way programming and continuous learning opportunities.
• Industry‑Competitive Benefits: flexible vacation, two company‑wide mental health days, Headspace app access, retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Additional benefits include optional hospital, accident, sickness insurance; optional life and AD&D insurance; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection; 529 Plan access; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, as well as 401(k) plan with company match.
• Broader corporate benefits: paid holidays (including two mental health days), parental leave, sabbatical leave.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace and making reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs. #LI-LP2