Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters provides trusted content and technology for professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. The Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer) will own the architecture and technical direction of Cloud Audit Suite, building scalable backend and AI orchestration systems. The role also involves leading cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and establishing reliable, production-grade AI engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- As a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer), you will be responsible for the architecture and technical direction of Audit Suite
- Define AI engineering patterns for MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM integration, experimentation, and scalable infrastructure
- Build systems operating across millions of documents, structured financial data, evolving regulations, and thousands of concurrent AI interactions
- Lead across engineering, product, UX, and AI teams to rapidly design and deliver customer-facing solutions
- Set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and stay hands-on in architecture and code
- Drive platform integration strategy across Thomson Reuters audit systems
- Lead strategic initiatives spanning AI, platform, and infrastructure
- Mentor engineers and elevate system design, code quality, and AI engineering practices
- Partner with AI/ML teams, researchers, designers, and product managers to convert emerging AI capabilities into trusted customer solutions
- Influence roadmap, technical strategy, experimentation, testing, rollout practices, and operational excellence
- Architect and build backend services using C#/.NET, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Vercel that power AI-driven workflows and document-centric experiences
- Develop AI orchestration capabilities including MCP servers, tool calling, workflow routing, guardrails, reliability, and LLM integrations
- Design high-throughput, low-latency AI systems using caching, queuing, rate limiting, failover, and cost optimization strategies
- Build retrieval and search systems leveraging large document collections, vector databases, and indexing technologies
- Establish observability, SLOs, and incident management practices for auditable and trustworthy AI systems
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products
- Proven track record of shipping production-grade AI systems to customers, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership in enterprise environments
- Full Stack experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React or Angular
- Strong distributed systems expertise, including APIs, data modeling, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization
- Proven success leading complex projects from architecture through long-term operation
- Deep interest in AI-native software, including LLMs, agents, retrieval, and modern AI development patterns
- CI/CD experience, including GitHub Actions
- Hands-on experience integrating LLM platforms such as OpenAI and Anthropic into production applications
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval systems
- Experience with C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL/SQL Server, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Experience in highly regulated domains such as tax, audit, legal, fintech, or other compliance-focused industries
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Flex My Way supportive workplace policies for managing personal and professional responsibilities
- Continuous learning and skill development through Grow My Way programming and a skills-first approach
- 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
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs for employees in the United States
- Competitive 401k plan with company match for employees in the United States
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off for employees in the United States
- Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off, for employees in the United States
- Parental leave for employees in the United States
- Sabbatical leave for employees in the United States
- 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
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
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