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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 individual contributor and technical authority within Cyber Defense, shaping how the organization anticipates, detects, investigates, and responds to threats affecting AI-enabled products, services, and enterprise operations. This hands-on technical role leads through engineering depth, judgment, architecture, collaboration, and mentorship, evolving core Cyber Defense capabilities to address AI-specific threats and responsibly apply AI across established processes.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction for AI threat defense across Thomson Reuters.
Define how the organization monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to attacks involving AI-enabled products, LLM applications, agentic workflows, models, AI infrastructure, and associated integrations.
Develop defensive approaches for AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, jailbreaks and guardrail bypass, sensitive-information and system-prompt disclosure, unsafe downstream execution, excessive agent autonomy, unauthorized tool use, MCP exploitation, model and data poisoning, AI supply-chain compromise, model denial-of-service and denial-of-wallet attacks, model, prompt, and intellectual-property theft, and deepfake-enabled social engineering.
Partner with Product Engineering, Security Engineering & Architecture, and AppSec to establish secure, observable, and defensible patterns for AI-enabled applications, services, infrastructure, agents, and tool-use workflows.
Ensure AI security requirements, meaningful telemetry, and response readiness are designed into the software development lifecycle and production operating environment.
Strengthen existing security telemetry, detection engineering, monitoring, incident investigation, and response practices to identify and contain AI-related threats effectively.
Architect the responsible use of AI within the existing 24/7 SOC and CIRT operating model to improve triage, investigation, decision-making, response execution, and analyst effectiveness.
Develop detection content, security analytics, investigation methods, playbooks, and response workflows that enable SOC and CIRT teams to investigate and respond to AI-related security events.
Maintain appropriate human oversight, evidence quality, auditability, safeguards, and rollback mechanisms as AI capabilities are adopted within Cyber Defense operations.
Track emerging offensive AI capabilities, adversary tooling, threat-actor adoption, AI vulnerability research, and changes in the broader threat landscape, translating findings into practical defensive improvements.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across Cyber Defense, raising organizational capability in AI security, detection engineering, threat analysis, and incident response.
Influence technical decisions through architecture reviews, technical standards, direct engineering collaboration, design guidance, and clear communication with technical and executive stakeholders.
Represent Thomson Reuters in relevant customer discussions, industry groups, regulatory engagements, and AI security communities.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, security architecture, threat detection, incident response, or a related technical field.
Experience operating as a Principal, Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader within a large, complex organization.
Strong hands-on experience in Cyber Defense, including detection engineering, security operations, threat hunting, security analytics, incident response, security architecture, or closely related disciplines.
A proven ability to establish technical strategy and deliver security capabilities that are adopted across multiple teams, systems, and operating functions.
Practical experience securing or governing AI-enabled systems, including LLM applications, AI infrastructure, models, agentic workflows, AI integrations, MCP, or comparable tool-use patterns.
Strong understanding of AI security risks, including prompt injection, data exposure, unsafe model output and downstream execution, agent and tool abuse, model and data poisoning, AI supply-chain risk, and AI-enabled social engineering.
Proven experience architecting or delivering AI-assisted detection and response capabilities within a mature 24/7 SOC, CIRT, or comparable cyber defense environment.
Experience strengthening an established security organization and driving adoption of security capabilities across SOC Operations, CIRT, Threat Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction.
Ability to translate AI security risks into clear architectural patterns, engineering requirements, detection logic, and actionable incident-response practices.
Experience partnering with Product Engineering, Security Engineering & Architecture, and AppSec teams to embed security into development and production processes.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across executive leadership, engineers, architects, analysts, incident responders, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to mentor technical professionals and raise the technical capability of a broader security organization.
Experience operating within a regulated, multi-segment enterprise and partnering across legal, compliance, procurement, governance, engineering, and security organizations.
Experience in financial services, legal technology, professional information services, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.
Experience embedding significant technical capabilities into an established security operations organization is preferred.
Hands-on experience building or operating agentic AI systems across multiple LLMs, including open-weight, hosted, and frontier models, is preferred.
Experience applying AI within SAST, AppSec, vulnerability management, detection engineering, or security operations workflows is preferred.
Working knowledge of safely operating open-weight or less-restricted models for authorized internal security research is a plus.
Familiarity with frontier AI vulnerability research programs or comparable agentic vulnerability-discovery initiatives is a plus.
Active participation in AI security research, open-source communities, industry groups, conference speaking, or published research is a plus.
Relevant certifications in cybersecurity, cloud security, AI/ML security, or detection engineering are beneficial but not required.

Skills

Cybersecurity
Security Engineering
Security Architecture
Threat Detection
Incident Response
Detection Engineering
Security Operations
Threat Hunting
Security Analytics
AI-enabled systems
LLM applications
AI infrastructure
Models
Agentic workflows
AI integrations
Prompt injection
Data exposure
Model and data poisoning
AI supply-chain risk
AI-enabled social engineering
AI-assisted detection and response
Communication
Influencing
Mentorship
Architecture reviews
Technical standards
SAST
AppSec
Vulnerability management
Open-weight models
Frontier models

Location

New York City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Irvine, CA
McLean, VA
Washington, DC

Work Type

Hybrid
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Distinguished Engineer level
12+ years of progressive experience
Principal, Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader

Salary/Compensations

$228,000 USD - $424,000 USD
$198,200 USD - $368,000 USD

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Industry Competitive Benefits
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, and more.
Social Impact Institute
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
Access to 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.

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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