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About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer - AI on the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments. You will turn architectural direction into robust, production-ready systems that legal professionals can trust, working closely with AI architects, legal AI experts, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

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.

Skills

Python
Backend Engineering
RESTful APIs
Async Services
Event-driven systems
LangChain
LangGraph
PydanticAI
AutoGen
RAG architectures
Vector databases
AWS
Azure
GCP
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD practices
Secure API development
Datadog
Grafana
Prometheus
LangSmith
Langfuse
Braintrust
Weights & Biases
Communication skills

Location

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid
Onsite

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production

Salary/Compensations

$118,400 USD - $219,800 USD

Benefits

Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Continuous learning and skill development
Grow My Way programming
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
Optional life and AD&D insurance
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About the Company

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including 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.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.