Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer)
Thomson Reuters2 months ago
Base Salary
$127k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical direction of Cloud Audit Suite and drive platform integration strategy across Thomson Reuters audit systems.
- Define AI engineering patterns for MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM integration, experimentation, and scalable infrastructure.
- Architect and build backend services and AI-driven workflows using C#/.NET, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Vercel.
- Develop AI orchestration capabilities including tool calling, workflow routing, guardrails, reliability, and LLM integrations.
- Design high-throughput, low-latency systems using caching, queuing, rate limiting, failover, and cost optimization.
- Build retrieval and search systems over large document collections using vector databases and indexing technologies.
- Establish observability, SLOs, and incident management practices for auditable and trustworthy AI systems.
- Lead strategic initiatives across AI, platform, and infrastructure teams and collaborate with engineering, product, UX, AI, research, and design partners.
- Mentor engineers and improve system design, code quality, AI engineering practices, testing, rollout practices, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.
- Proven experience shipping production-grade AI systems to enterprise customers, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership.
- Full Stack experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Strong distributed systems expertise covering APIs, data modeling, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization.
- Proven success leading complex projects from architecture through long-term operation.
- Deep interest in AI-native software, including LLMs, agents, retrieval, and modern AI development patterns.
- Preferred experience with CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
- Preferred experience integrating OpenAI and Anthropic LLM platforms into production applications.
- Preferred experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, retrieval systems, C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AWS, and regulated industries such as tax, audit, legal, fintech, or compliance-focused domains.
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.
- Career development, continuous learning, skills development, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs.
- Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, retirement savings with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and two company-wide mental health days.
- Access to Headspace, wellbeing resources, fitness reimbursement, employee assistance, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, 529 Plan, and employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSC#FastAPIGitHub ActionsJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL Server.NETPostgreSQLPythonReactTypeScriptVercel
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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.