Staff Software Engineer - AI I
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$127k - $273k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build enterprise-scale AI systems, including RAG pipelines, knowledge graph architectures, autonomous agents, APIs, microservices, and modern web UIs.
- Evaluate emerging AI techniques, conduct proofs of concept, assess feasibility, and translate research into technical roadmaps.
- Make design decisions, translate business requirements into scalable specifications, mentor software engineers, and champion MLOps and LLMOps governance.
- Implement testing, monitoring, observability, security, ethical AI, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence for AI systems.
- Collaborate with AI researchers, engineering leaders, design, and product teams to deliver customer-facing AI applications and optimize latency, cost, and user experience.
- Set technical priorities, influence product strategy, and help deliver measurable business value from AI investments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; a Master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including 3 years in senior or lead roles on AI/ML systems.
- Hands-on software engineering experience with generative AI, RAG, or LLM-based systems across discovery, architecture, agentic tools, evaluation, deployment, and metrics.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language, with strong backend service and API design skills.
- Understanding of ML principles, evaluation methodologies, and distributed systems, plus experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Advanced experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, including integrating AI models into large-scale production systems through APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong individual-contributor technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with agent-based systems, enterprise AI API integrations, vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, graph databases, regulated industries, large-scale search, AI product launches, AI governance, model risk management, regulatory compliance, publications, patents, or speaking engagements.
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, skills development, and Grow My Way programming.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, 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 US employees.
- Additional benefits may include fitness reimbursement, employee assistance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, legal identity theft protection, 529 plan access, and employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Eligible locations include New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, McLean, Washington, DC, and Ontario, Canada.
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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.