Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing trusted content and technology to help professionals make informed decisions. They are seeking a Software Engineer - AI for their CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team, where the role involves designing and implementing AI-powered solutions for legal workflows. The engineer will collaborate with various stakeholders to translate legal needs into technical solutions, ensuring high standards of accuracy and security.
Responsibilities
- You will partner with AI Solution Engineers, Architects, and senior technical teammates to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal customers
- You will help translate legal workflows and business needs into reliable technical solutions that combine foundation models, proprietary AI capabilities, and legal-domain understanding
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on engineering, client-facing problem solving, and applied AI development
- You will contribute to technical discovery, solution delivery, prototyping, integrations, and evaluation of AI outputs for legal use cases
- You will play an important role in ensuring the systems we deploy are practical, accurate, secure, and aligned with the high standards required in legal environments
- Support client engagements by participating in technical discovery sessions, gathering requirements, and helping scope legal AI use cases
- Work with legal and technical stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes
- Assist with demonstrations, proofs of concept, and early-stage prototypes that inform solution design
- Develop working knowledge of legal terminology, legal processes, and operational constraints in law firms and corporate legal departments
- Design, develop, and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis
- Build and support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic workflows, and other multi-component AI systems
- Configure and integrate solutions using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and other enterprise platforms where applicable
- Develop automation scripts, APIs, and integration components tailored to customer environments and use cases
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and secure
- Help evaluate LLM outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, citation quality, consistency, and hallucination risk
- Contribute to test cases, benchmarks, and evaluation workflows based on real legal tasks
- Partner with internal teams to validate new capabilities against real-world legal use cases
- Support compliance with responsible AI principles, data privacy requirements, and enterprise security standards
- Translate functional requirements into technical tasks and contribute to implementation planning
- Document solutions, reusable components, and engineering best practices for internal use
- Experiment with prompting strategies, workflow improvements, and emerging AI techniques to improve legal use-case performance
- Stay current with developments in AI engineering, legal technology, and applied LLM systems
Skills
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience, including experience building applications or integrations in production environments
- Hands-on experience with Python and familiarity with modern AI/ML tooling and APIs
- Understanding of core machine learning and LLM concepts, including prompt design, evaluation, and workflow orchestration
- Experience integrating external APIs, automating workflows, or building data pipelines
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including legal, product, and engineering stakeholders
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments, learning quickly, and contributing across multiple projects
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with containerization, deployment workflows, and modern software development practices
- Experience using AI platforms or APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar providers
- Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, search, or retrieval systems
- Experience working on AI solutions in legal, compliance, financial, healthcare, or other regulated/professional domains
- Portfolio or project examples demonstrating practical use of LLMs, automations, or applied AI systems
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Grow My Way programming and 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.
- Social Impact Institute
- 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
- A competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
- 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
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
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