Staff Software Engineer - AI
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Mexico City, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of AI agentic Litigation Drafting products.
- Design and build backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL for real-time AI agentic interactions.
- Develop agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, content pipelines, routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and observability.
- Define service boundaries, system interfaces, scalable design patterns, and the architectural foundation of the AI platform.
- Support front-end engineers delivering an agentic UI using SSE, AG-UI, Claude Agent SDK, and AgentCore.
- Lead AI experimentation, technical feasibility evaluations, proof-of-concept work, and adoption of new AI techniques.
- Mentor software engineers and influence architecture decisions across engineering, Labs, product, and design teams.
- Design and implement testing, monitoring, security, compliance, ethical AI practices, and operational excellence for AI systems.
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation for stable, cloud-native production workflows.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in technical leadership roles.
- At least 3 years of experience building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.
- Proven experience shipping production-grade AI systems, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership in enterprise environments.
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS or Azure cloud services.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, architecture, and data modeling.
- Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for production web applications with automated testing and safe release practices.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, strategic thinking, communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, information retrieval, AG-UI or comparable agent-UI protocols, SSE events, backend streaming, Datadog, CloudWatch Log Insights, and Braintrust.
- Experience with legal, compliance, or other regulated professional domains is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible workplace policies supporting personal and professional responsibilities.
- Career development, continuous learning, and skills-first growth programs.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- 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.