Software Engineer - AI – CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Toronto, Canada +5 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$109k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Participate in technical discovery sessions, gather requirements, and help scope legal AI use cases with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Develop demonstrations, proofs of concept, prototypes, and production-oriented AI solutions for contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
- Build and support retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, agentic workflows, and other multi-component AI systems.
- Configure and integrate CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and other enterprise platforms for customer environments.
- Develop automation scripts, APIs, and integration components tailored to customer use cases.
- Evaluate LLM outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, citation quality, consistency, and hallucination risk.
- Create test cases, benchmarks, and evaluation workflows based on real legal tasks.
- Collaborate with engineers and architects on scalable, maintainable, and secure implementations.
- Document solutions, reusable components, and engineering best practices.
- Experiment with prompting strategies, workflow improvements, and emerging AI techniques for legal use cases.
- Support responsible AI, data privacy, and enterprise security requirements.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience, including building applications or integrations in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Python and modern AI/ML tooling and APIs.
- Understanding of machine learning and LLM concepts, including prompt design, evaluation, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience integrating external APIs, automating workflows, or building data pipelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with containerization, deployment workflows, and modern software development practices.
- Experience using AI platforms or APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic.
- Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, search, or retrieval systems.
- Experience applying AI solutions in legal, compliance, financial, healthcare, or other regulated or professional domains.
- Portfolio or project examples demonstrating practical use of LLMs, automations, or applied AI systems.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work across legal, product, and engineering stakeholders.
- Ability to learn quickly and contribute across multiple projects.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life balance policies.
- Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, retirement savings with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, Employee Assistance Program, fitness reimbursement, and wellbeing resources.
- Tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, commuter benefits, and adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Eligible office locations include New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, McLean, and Washington, DC; Ontario, Canada is also listed.
- The role may be eligible for an annual performance-based bonus.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.