Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE

Are you a hands‑on technical leader who wants to shape how the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AI? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team.

In this role, you will lead the architecture and delivery of bespoke, production‑grade AI solutions that help legal professionals solve complex, high‑stakes workflows with trust, speed, and accuracy. Working closely with AI Solution Engineers, legal domain experts and cross‑functional partners, you will define how we build AI‑native systems for some of the most sophisticated legal customers in the world.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, you will:

• 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.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI if your background includes:

• 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

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees, including market‑competitive health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance programs, a competitive 401(k) plan with company match, competitive vacation, sick and paid holiday time, two company‑wide Mental Health Days off, parental leave, sabbatical leave and many optional benefits such as health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance: 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. This builds upon our 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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead and thrive in an AI‑enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer 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 and resources for mental, physical and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award‑winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge Your Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social and Governance initiatives.
• Making a Real‑World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Base compensation range: $137,100 USD – $254,700 USD (varies across locations). Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. This role may also be eligible for an annual bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. This job posting will close 05/17/2026.

Equal Employment 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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation is available from the company website.