Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI

Role Description

Are you a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AI? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. In this role, you will lead the architecture and delivery of bespoke, production-grade AI solutions that help legal professionals solve complex, high-stakes workflows with trust, speed, and accuracy.

In this opportunity as Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, you will:

• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of AI-powered solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, from concept through production deployment.
• Review and guide system design, architecture, and code produced by AI Solution Engineers to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across engagements.
• Build sophisticated legal AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations tailored to legal use cases such as contract review, litigation support, discovery, and regulatory analysis.
• Drive AI-native engineering practices across the team by embedding AI into development workflows, tooling, delivery processes, and technical standards.
• Establish observability, evaluation, and trust frameworks for production AI systems, including monitoring, logging, tracing, model evaluation, and quality benchmarking.
• Lead technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows, business goals, and domain expertise into scalable technical architectures and solution plans.
• Mentor engineers and partner with product, engineering, and legal experts to advance reusable solution patterns, accelerate delivery, and bring emerging AI capabilities into the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in system design, distributed systems, scalable architecture, and technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production, including strong knowledge of RAG architectures, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation practices.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and modern backend engineering, with experience designing RESTful APIs, async systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices for secure, scalable deployments.
• Strong understanding of AI interoperability and agentic systems, including MCP, Agent-to-Agent workflows, third-party integrations, and tool-augmented architectures.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and AI quality tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or similar platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers, legal professionals, and business leaders in ambiguous, high-impact environments.

Requirements

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of 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: Continuous learning and skill development through Grow My Way programming.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, and resources for wellbeing.
• Culture: Award-winning reputation for inclusion, belonging, and work-life balance.
• Social Impact: Opportunities for paid volunteer days and involvement in pro-bono consulting projects.
• Making a Real-World Impact: Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
• Competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Market-leading work-life benefits including vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Optional hospital, accident, and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and Group Legal Identity Theft Protection.
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.