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About the Role

Join Thomson Reuters as a Senior Legal Engineer on the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team to build AI-powered solutions that help legal professionals work smarter and deliver better outcomes. You will combine strong engineering fundamentals with legal fluency to translate customer needs into secure, scalable, high-quality products.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end software solutions for complex legal workflows and AI-enabled products.
Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges, translating requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Architect and build modern cloud-native systems using distributed services, microservices, APIs, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
Develop production-grade Python software while applying strong engineering practices for security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, including assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices to support secure, reliable, and automated deployments.
Manage technical debt effectively while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability and system health.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

A JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade software.
Experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
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.
Comfort working independently, navigating ambiguity, and presenting in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
A collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to secure engineering, ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Skills

Python
Distributed systems
Microservices
APIs
Cloud-native applications
AI evaluation
LLM evaluation
Prompt engineering
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code

Location

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

Work Type

Hybrid
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Education Level

JD or formal legal training

Salary/Compensations

$117,700 USD - $218,600 USD (NYC, SF, LA, Irvine, McLean, DC)
$102,200 USD - $189,800 USD (Other US locations)
$111,400 CAD - $161,400 CAD (Ontario, Canada)

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way policies for work-life balance
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Continuous learning and skill development opportunities
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings with company match
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, 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
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 trusted content and technology for decision-making.
Serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
Combines specialized software and insights to empower professionals with data, intelligence, and solutions.
Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
Powered by 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries.
Committed to objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency.
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
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.