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About the Role

Thomson Reuters is enhancing its Cyber Defense capability in response to an AI-driven threat landscape. The Distinguished Engineer, AI Threat Defense is a senior technical authority within the Cyber Defense organization, responsible for strengthening AI-specific threat defense strategy and building AI-augmented detection and response capability into the existing SOC and CIRT. This role drives impact through technical credibility, architecture, hands-on engineering, influence, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

Own Thomson Reuters' monitoring and response strategy against AI-specific attack vectors.
Partner with Security Engineering and Architecture to define standards for securing AI infrastructure.
Track emerging offensive AI capabilities, adversary tooling, and threat-actor adoption of AI.
Drive monitoring and defenses for AI-specific threat classes.
Own technical monitoring and response for Thomson Reuters AI-enabled applications, features, and agentic services.
Build AI-augmented detection content and analytics for AI-specific attack patterns.
Integrate AI threat detection into the existing SIEM, detection engineering, and SOC monitoring stack.
Build AI-assisted playbooks and runbooks and integrate them into existing CIRT and SOAR workflows.
Serve as the principal technical architect for incorporating AI capabilities into the existing 24/7 SOC and CIRT.
Design automated workflows for AI-related detection, triage, investigation, and response.
Increase analyst productivity while maintaining human-in-the-loop controls, audit trails, and rollback capability.
Drive adoption across SOC Operations, CIRT, Threat Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction.
Act as the recognized technical authority for AI threat defense across the Cyber Defense organization.
Provide hands-on mentorship and technical uplift to SOC, CIRT, engineering, and security professionals.
Represent Cyber Defense externally with industry groups, customers, and regulators.
Influence engineers and analysts through technical reviews, direct collaboration, architecture guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive cybersecurity engineering experience, including experience operating at Principal, Staff, or Distinguished Engineer level within a large, complex enterprise.
Deep hands-on knowledge of AI-specific attack vectors and defensive architectures.
Production experience governing AI systems, agentic infrastructure, MCP or equivalent integration patterns.
Proven experience architecting or delivering AI-assisted detection and response within a mature 24/7 SOC and/or CIRT.
Experience enhancing an established security organization rather than simply building a new function from scratch.
Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of detection capabilities and security controls across SOC Operations, CIRT, Threat Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction.
Ability to influence technical teams through credibility rather than direct reporting authority.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to explain AI-related security risk to senior executives and technical audiences.
Experience within a regulated, multi-segment enterprise requiring coordination across legal, compliance, procurement, and governance organizations.

Skills

AI Threat Defense Strategy
AI-specific attack vectors
Prompt injection
Model Context Protocol (MCP) exploitation
Agentic system compromise
Deepfake-enabled social engineering
AI-assisted reconnaissance
Securing AI infrastructure
AI-augmented detection and response
SIEM
Detection engineering
SOAR workflows
Cybersecurity engineering
AI systems
Production security architecture
Communication skills

Location

New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC

Work Type

Hybrid Work Model
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Distinguished Engineer level
12+ years of progressive cybersecurity engineering experience

Education Level

CISSP
CISM
advanced AI/ML security
cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP)
detection-engineering credentials

Salary/Compensations

For eligible office location(s) including New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC: $228,000 USD - $424,000 USD
For any eligible US locations: $198,200 USD - $368,000 USD

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth opportunities
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Comprehensive benefit plans
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
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Pro-bono consulting projects
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
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
Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance

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.
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