Legal AI Engineer
Thomson Reuters3 days ago
Base Salary
$74k - $138k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead in-person discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, workflow workshops, and executive briefings for law firm customers.
- Scope Legal AI use cases, advise on workflow and solution design, and demonstrate legal AI capabilities throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Partner with Customer Success Managers to develop adoption strategies and move high-value use cases into sustained use.
- Test and document best practices, reusable use cases, prompts, playbooks, and workflow patterns.
- Assess whether customer needs are best addressed through Thomson Reuters products, partner solutions, integrations, or custom development.
- Communicate customer needs and product improvement opportunities to cross-functional Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams.
- Contribute to thought leadership through events, advisory boards, and customer-facing content.
- Travel approximately 25–30% to customer and firm sites.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school is required.
- Prior experience practicing law in a law firm, in-house legal department, government, clerkship, or comparable legal practice setting is required.
- Customer- or client-facing experience, ideally with enterprise or complex accounts.
- Familiarity with legal workflows including due diligence, eDiscovery, large document review, and compliance.
- Demonstrable experience with generative artificial intelligence applications.
- Substantial experience using online legal research and practice tools such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Relativity, or Everlaw.
- Strong aptitude for learning AI tools and platforms; no formal technical or programming background is required.
- Basic programming or exploratory coding with Python is a plus but not required.
- Understanding of large language model architecture and operation and hands-on comfort with AI tools is preferred.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, create documentation and learning materials, and deliver persuasive customer presentations.
- Knowledge of due diligence, eDiscovery, large document sets, data rooms, and related AI-enabled workflows is preferred.
- Ability to solve complex customer problems, simplify ambiguous challenges, and stay current with AI research, industry trends, risks, and societal impact.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off for eligible U.S. employees.
- Fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, 529 Plan, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and other optional insurance benefits.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Regular travel of approximately 25–30% is required, and the posting closes December 31, 2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsSolutions Engineering
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.