Legal AI Engineer
Thomson Reuters8 days ago
Base Salary
$100k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead in-person discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, workflow workshops, and executive briefings with law firm customers.
- Scope Legal AI use cases and advise customers on workflow and solution design throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Develop and execute Legal AI strategies for a focused portfolio of signature law firm customers.
- Translate complex legal workflows and customer requirements into solution designs, prototypes, integrations, or custom-development approaches.
- Design, test, and refine advanced Legal AI workflows combining Thomson Reuters products, customer systems, partner technologies, integrations, or custom development.
- Determine whether customer needs are best addressed through Thomson Reuters products, partner solutions, integrations, or custom development.
- Document solution patterns, technical requirements, implementation considerations, and lessons learned for reuse.
- Communicate customer needs and product-improvement opportunities to Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams.
- Contribute to thought leadership through customer events, advisory boards, and customer-facing content.
- Travel approximately 25–30% to customer and firm sites for engagements, demonstrations, and team initiatives.
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.
- Proven experience in customer- or client-facing roles, ideally with enterprise or complex accounts.
- Familiarity with legal workflows such as 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.
- Ability to learn and work hands-on with AI tools, workflow technologies, and technically complex solutions.
- Preferred experience includes workflow automation, APIs, integrations, technical prototyping, data analysis, Python, or exploratory coding.
- Preferred experience collaborating with software engineers, solution engineers, implementation teams, or other technical specialists.
- Preferred qualifications include understanding LLM architecture, prompt and context design, data structures, legal technology workflows, and technical requirements documentation.
- Strong communication, presentation, documentation, customer-engagement, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including the ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- U.S. benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits include fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, 529 Plan, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Regular travel of approximately 25–30% is required, and the job posting closes December 31, 2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions 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.