Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on their CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to lead the architecture and delivery of AI solutions for legal professionals. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and build AI-native systems tailored to complex legal workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of AI-powered solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, from concept through production deployment
• Review and guide system design, architecture, and code produced by AI Solution Engineers to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across engagements
• Build sophisticated legal AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations tailored to legal use cases such as contract review, litigation support, discovery, and regulatory analysis
• Drive AI-native engineering practices across the team by embedding AI into development workflows, tooling, delivery processes, and technical standards
• Establish observability, evaluation, and trust frameworks for production AI systems, including monitoring, logging, tracing, model evaluation, and quality benchmarking
• Lead technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows, business goals, and domain expertise into scalable technical architectures and solution plans
• Mentor engineers and partner with product, engineering, and legal experts to advance reusable solution patterns, accelerate delivery, and bring emerging AI capabilities into the team

Skills

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in system design, distributed systems, scalable architecture, and technical leadership
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production, including strong knowledge of RAG architectures, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation practices
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and modern backend engineering, with experience designing RESTful APIs, async systems, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices for secure, scalable deployments
• Strong understanding of AI interoperability and agentic systems, including MCP, Agent-to-Agent workflows, third-party integrations, and tool-augmented architectures
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and AI quality tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or similar platforms
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers, legal professionals, and business leaders in ambiguous, high-impact environments

Benefits

• Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
• Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
• Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach
• Comprehensive benefit plans to include 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
• Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
• Competitive 401k plan with company match
• Market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
• Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
• Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Fitness reimbursement
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
• Access to 529 Plan
• Commuter benefits
• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance

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