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About the Role

Join Thomson Reuters and help shape the future of legal technology on the Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering team. As a Senior Legal Engineer, you will work directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and improve AI-powered workflows and tools for legal practice. You will combine deep legal expertise with AI and technology fluency to turn real-world customer needs into practical, high-impact legal AI solutions.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered solutions tailored to complex legal workflows and practice areas.
Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges. Lead discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding, and enablement programs.
Build and iterate on AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools, applying sound practices for security and reliability.
Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
Develop evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, rubrics, and regression checks, to systematically assess AI output quality across legal workflows.
Train and enable legal teams on AI tool adoption, prompt best practices, and workflow integration.
Share legal AI expertise through documentation, playbooks, and knowledge sharing with customers and internal teams.
Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the customer experience.

Requirements

JD or LLB (required or strongly preferred).
5+ years of total professional experience, including at least 2 years in legal practice at a law firm or in-house legal department, or in a legal technology product role.
Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
Comfort working with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
Advanced prompt-engineering skills, including the ability to design, test, iterate, and optimize prompts for legal-domain use cases.
Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both lawyers and engineers.
Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
Strong client-facing skills, with the ability to build trust with lawyers, GCs, and legal leadership.
Collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Skills

AI fluency
Technology curiosity
Python scripting experience
Legal technology platforms
Legal SaaS products
AI-enabled legal workflows
AI tools
AI-assisted development environments
AI and LLM evaluation methodologies
Advanced prompt-engineering skills
Prompt best practices
Workflow integration
Legal AI expertise
Client-facing skills

Location

Frisco, TX
Toronto, ON
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN
New York, NY

Work Type

Hybrid
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years of total professional experience
2+ years in legal practice or legal technology product role

Education Level

JD or LLB

Salary/Compensations

New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC: $109,000 USD - $203,000 USD
US locations (excluding specified): $94,900 USD - $176,300 USD
Ontario, Canada: $105,000 CAD - $155,000 CAD

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
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.
Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com.
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