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About the Role

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI to join their CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering organization. This hands-on role involves solving complex customer problems, designing and building AI solutions, and influencing product innovation. The ideal candidate combines deep software architecture and AI expertise with strong engineering skills, actively contributing to code while leading technical engagements and shaping AI solution deployment in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

Lead complex customer and technical engagements end to end, from discovery and architecture through production deployment, while remaining technically involved throughout the full lifecycle.
Design, build, and deploy production AI solutions within enterprise and customer-owned environments, while personally contributing to and reviewing production code.
Set architectural direction across AI, distributed systems, integrations, security, reliability, and deployment, and provide technical guidance to Senior and Staff-level engineers.
Partner closely with customers, Product, and Engineering to translate real-world customer needs and emerging patterns into scalable product capabilities, anticipating future needs and helping shape the core CoCounsel roadmap.
Identify patterns across customer engagements and turn field learnings into reusable architectures, technical standards, platform improvements, and product direction.
Influence technical strategy across Forward Deployed Engineering and related Thomson Reuters teams, evaluating new technologies, mentoring engineers, raising the engineering and architectural bar, and advising senior leaders on high-impact technical decisions.
Communicate complex technical decisions clearly to engineers, product leaders, executives, and customer stakeholders, including high-stakes tradeoffs involving security, reliability, scalability, and business impact.

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership at the Principal, Architect, or senior individual-contributor level.
Strong recent hands-on software engineering experience, including personally writing, reviewing, and debugging production code.
Deep experience designing, building, and delivering complex production software systems.
Significant experience with AI/ML, Generative AI, or LLM-powered systems in production environments.
Experience architecting and delivering AI solutions that integrate with enterprise or customer-owned infrastructure.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, system integration, cloud architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and production operations.
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives or customer engagements end to end, with the ability to influence architecture and technical direction across multiple teams.
Ability to translate customer-specific technical work into reusable, scalable product capabilities in partnership with Product and Engineering.
Experience mentoring, reviewing, and providing technical direction to Senior and Staff-level engineers.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to represent technical strategy credibly with engineers, product partners, executives, and customers.

Skills

AI/ML
Generative AI
LLM
Distributed systems
APIs
System integration
Cloud architecture
Scalability
Reliability
Security
Production operations
Agentic AI
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Evaluation

Location

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

Work Type

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

Experience Level

Principal-level
12+ years of software engineering experience
Significant technical leadership at the Principal, Architect, or senior individual-contributor level

Salary/Compensations

$183,100 USD - $340,000 USD (for specific US locations)
$158,900 USD - $295,100 USD (for other eligible US locations)

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth opportunities
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
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 (employee paid)
Optional life and AD&D insurance (employee paid)
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection (employee paid)
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.
Products combine 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.
Fosters a culture of continuous learning and skill development.
Values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Make an impact in the community with the Social Impact Institute, offering paid volunteer days off and involvement in pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Helps customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency, upholding the rule of law, turning the wheels of commerce, catching bad actors, reporting facts, and providing trusted, unbiased information.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, Thomson Reuters relies on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees.
Seeks talented, qualified employees 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.
Makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
In the United States, requests for accommodation in the recruiting process can be directed to HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com.