Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE

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. About the Role As a 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 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. About You 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. Benefits Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance: Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year. Career Development and Growth: Grow My Way programming, skills‑first learning opportunities, and continuous skill development support. Industry‑Competitive Benefits: Flexible vacation, two company‑wide mental‑health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, competitive 401(k) plan with company match. Optional additional benefits: hospital, accident, and sickness insurance, life and AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, group legal identity theft protection, 529 plan, commuter benefits, adoption & surrogacy assistance, employee stock purchase plan. Equal Employment Opportunity Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we consider candidates irrespective of race, color, sex/gender, pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. Learn more about requesting an accommodation here. #J-18808-Ljbffr Refinitiv