Senior Software Engineer – AI, CoCounsel FDE

Thomson Reuters

Senior Software Engineer designing and implementing AI solutions tailored for legal workflows at Thomson Reuters. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact AI services.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • New York, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $118,400 - $219,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaPrometheusPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement AI-powered solutions tailored to legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis
Build scalable, secure, and maintainable AI systems within architectural frameworks defined by the AI Solutions Architect, including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations
Develop and configure multi-step agentic workflows using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems
Implement observability, evaluation, and quality controls for production AI systems, including monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming protocols
Participate in technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows and business goals into clear engineering plans and prototypes
Partner closely with AI architects, legal AI engineers, and peers to deliver high-quality solutions, contribute reusable assets, and improve engineering practices across the team
Evaluate and prototype emerging AI techniques, interoperability standards, and prompt engineering approaches to improve solution quality and delivery speed

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, with experience building RESTful APIs, async services, and event-driven systems
Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen, along with solid understanding of RAG architectures and vector databases
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD practices, and secure API development
Experience with observability and AI evaluation tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or Weights & Biases
Strong communication skills and comfort working independently in ambiguous, client-facing environments, including collaboration with legal professionals and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flex My Way supportive workplace policies
Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth programs
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Tuition Reimbursement
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI solutionssystem designdistributed systemsclean architecturePythonRESTful APIsasync servicesevent-driven systemsorchestration frameworksAI/ML applications

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsindependent workclient-facing environmentscollaborationtranslating workflowsengineering plansprototypingimproving practices