Lead Software Engineer, AI
Thomson Reuters6 days ago
Base Salary
$127k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement enterprise AI systems involving RAG, autonomous agents, multi-step reasoning, AI orchestration, APIs, microservices, and modern web UIs.
- Lead AI technical strategy, proof-of-concept evaluation, adoption of emerging techniques, and translation of AI research into technical roadmaps.
- Make architecture decisions, translate business requirements into scalable specifications, and mentor senior and junior software engineers.
- Champion MLOps, LLMOps, AI model lifecycle governance, model risk management, ethical AI, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Design testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization for AI systems at scale.
- Collaborate with AI researchers, engineering, design, and product teams to launch and scale AI-driven enterprise applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in senior or lead roles focused on AI/ML.
- Professional experience building Generative AI, RAG, or LLM solutions across discovery, architecture, agentic tools, evaluation, deployment, lifecycle, and metrics.
- Strong backend services and API development skills and expert-level proficiency in an object-oriented programming language.
- Extensive experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX, plus knowledge of ML principles, evaluation methodologies, distributed systems, and enterprise AI application lifecycles.
- Advanced AWS and orchestration experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, including integrating AI models into production systems through APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
- Leadership and mentoring experience, strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and senior-stakeholder influence skills.
- Experience leading teams building AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, or enterprise integrations with AI APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Advanced knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and information retrieval.
- Experience in legal, tax, accounting, investigative search, or other regulated industries; successful AI product launches; enterprise scaling; AI governance; model risk management; regulatory compliance; publications, patents, or AI/ML speaking experience.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, alongside flexible work-life balance policies.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, plus a competitive 401(k) with company match.
- Flexible vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays, two company-wide mental health days, parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
- Access to Headspace, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, and a 529 Plan.
- Employee incentive programs, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and optional insurance programs.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
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About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.