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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE - **Company:** Reuters America LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $137,100.0 - $254,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Interoperability, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Grafana, Multi-Agent Systems, Model Validation, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Integration Frameworks, Restful APIs - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/17298525/Staff-Software-Engineer-Architect-Ai-Cocounsel-Fde-New-York-New-York ## About the Role * 7+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in system design, distributed systems, scalable architecture, and technical leadership. * Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production, including strong knowledge of RAG architectures, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation practices. * Expert-level proficiency in Python and modern backend engineering, with experience designing RESTful APIs, async systems, and event-driven architectures. * Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices for secure, scalable deployments. * Strong understanding of AI interoperability and agentic systems, including MCP, Agent-to-Agent workflows, third-party integrations, and tool-augmented architectures. * Experience with observability, monitoring, and AI quality tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or similar platforms. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers, legal professionals, and business leaders in ambiguous, high-impact environments. ## Description life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) United States, New York, New York Jun 17, 2026 Are you a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AI?Thomson Reuters is hiring aStaff Software Engineer / Architect - AIon our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)team. In this role, you will lead the architecture and delivery of bespoke, production-grade AI solutions that help legal professionals solve complex, high-stakes workflows with trust, speed, and accuracy. Working closely with AI Solution Engineers, legal domain experts, and cross-functional partners, you will define how we build AI-native systems for some of the most sophisticated legal customers in the world., In this opportunity asStaff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, you will: * Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of AI-powered solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, from concept through production deployment. * Review and guide system design, architecture, and code produced by AI Solution Engineers to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability across engagements. * Build sophisticated legal AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, event-driven services, and enterprise integrations tailored to legal use cases such as contract review, litigation support, discovery, and regulatory analysis. * Drive AI-native engineering practices across the team by embedding AI into development workflows, tooling, delivery processes, and technical standards. * Establish observability, evaluation, and trust frameworks for production AI systems, including monitoring, logging, tracing, model evaluation, and quality benchmarking. * Lead technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows, business goals, and domain expertise into scalable technical architectures and solution plans. * Mentor engineers and partner with product, engineering, and legal experts to advance reusable solution patterns, accelerate delivery, and bring emerging AI capabilities into the team. ## Related Videos - [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100158-the-opentelemetry-mistakes-i-keep-seeing-and-how-to-stop-making-them) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1209-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) ## Related Articles - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this)