Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal), CoCounsel FDE

Are you passionate about putting cutting-edge AI directly into the hands of legal professionals? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal) on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will work at the intersection of engineering, law, and client impact - partnering with lawyers, AI engineers, and solution architects to discover, design, and deploy bespoke legal AI solutions. Your work will help translate complex legal workflows into trusted, production-ready AI systems that support law firms and corporate legal departments in high-stakes moments., In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal), you will:

• Participate in high-value client engagements, guiding technical discovery, scoping legal use cases, and building credibility with legal and technical stakeholders.
• Translate complex legal workflows, business pain points, and client goals into intelligent solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
• Design and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
• Build RAG pipelines, custom AI agents, and multi-step workflows that leverage CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and related enterprise systems.
• Lead LLM evaluation efforts for legal use cases, including benchmarking output quality, assessing hallucination risk, testing citation quality, and validating fitness for high-stakes legal work.
• Ensure deployed solutions meet ethical AI, data protection, and enterprise security standards while maintaining the trust legal professionals expect.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute reusable solution assets, and evaluate emerging AI techniques to improve quality and delivery across the team.

You're a fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal) if your background includes:

• JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience working within a legal practice environment.
• Fluency in legal terminology and demonstrated experience working directly with lawyers, legal teams, or legal operations stakeholders.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or LLM-powered applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience working with AI/ML frameworks and production-grade AI systems.
• Strong understanding of machine learning concepts, LLM evaluation methodologies, prompt engineering, and AI system design for domain-specific workflows.
• Experience building and integrating AI solutions into production environments using APIs, scalable pipelines, and modern cloud-based tools.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working independently in ambiguous, client-facing settings with both legal and technical stakeholders.

What's in it For You?

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities. It includes flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: A culture of continuous learning and skill development with programs to help you grow and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and wellbeing resources.
• Culture: A globally recognized reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and values such as obsessing over customers, competing to win, and acting fast/learning fast.
• Social Impact: Paid volunteer days and opportunities to engage with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We help our customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency by providing trusted information and supporting the rule of law.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k with company match, flexible vacation, sick and paid holidays, parental leave, and other benefits.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. For eligible US locations, the base compensation range is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD. Base pay is determined by factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity, and may be awarded a discretionary annual bonus.

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together trusted content and technology. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world-leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We rely on the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, valuing objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and provide a drug-free workplace. We make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.