Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Thomson Reuters4 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI-powered solutions tailored to legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
- Build scalable, secure, maintainable AI systems including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations within established architectural frameworks.
- Develop and configure multi-step agentic workflows using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems.
- Implement observability, evaluation, monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming protocols for production AI systems.
- Conduct technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders and translate legal workflows and business goals into engineering plans and prototypes.
- Collaborate with AI architects, legal AI engineers, and cross-functional peers to deliver solutions and reusable engineering assets.
- Evaluate emerging AI techniques, interoperability standards, and prompt engineering approaches.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and clean architecture.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend engineering, including experience building APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven systems.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen, plus understanding of RAG architectures and vector databases.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD practices, and secure API development.
- Experience with observability and AI evaluation tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or Weights & Biases.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently in ambiguous, client-facing environments with legal professionals and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including 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.
- Comprehensive US benefits including health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits include fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, 529 Plan access, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- The job posting will close on 10/02/2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Thomson Reuters
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