Staff Software Engineer - AI
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$127k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and lead enterprise-scale AI systems, including multi-component pipelines, RAG architectures, and autonomous AI agents.
- Advance AI model adaptation and customization for legal, tax, fraud, compliance, and other specialized domains.
- Define technical standards and best practices for AI system architecture across the organization.
- Partner with AI researchers, engineering leadership, design, and product teams to turn AI capabilities into market-leading applications.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging AI techniques, conduct technical feasibility assessments, and guide proof-of-concept projects through measurable results.
- Develop technical roadmaps, drive high-impact AI innovation initiatives, and influence product strategy.
- Mentor senior and junior software engineers and support their technical growth.
- Lead technical discussions with executives and represent Thomson Reuters at conferences and industry events.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in senior or lead AI/ML-focused roles.
- Experience with Generative AI, RAG, LLMs, solution discovery, agentic tools, evaluations, deployment, lifecycle management, and metrics.
- Expert-level Python skills and extensive experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
- Deep knowledge of machine learning principles, advanced evaluation methods, and distributed system design.
- Proven MLOps/LLMOps experience and ownership of the full lifecycle of enterprise AI applications.
- Experience integrating AI models into large-scale production systems using APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
- Advanced experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Preferred: Master’s degree, experience leading AI system or agent-based architecture teams, enterprise integrations with OpenAI or Anthropic, vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, information retrieval, regulated-industry expertise, AI product launches, AI governance, model risk management, regulatory compliance, publications, patents, or speaking experience.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, and Grow My Way programming.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; retirement savings with 401(k) match; vacation, sick and safe paid time off; paid holidays; parental and sabbatical leave.
- Two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, employee assistance, fitness reimbursement, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, and flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Additional benefits include adoption and surrogacy assistance, a 529 plan, employee stock purchase plan, and optional insurance programs.
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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.