Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on their CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to lead the architecture and delivery of AI solutions for legal professionals. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and build AI-native systems tailored to complex legal workflows.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
- Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach
- Comprehensive benefit plans to include 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
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- 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
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Market leading work life benefits with 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
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
Company Overview
Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.tr.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Thomson Reuters has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 13 in 2025, 12 in 2024, 5 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.