Senior Software Engineer - AI; Legal), CoCounsel FDE

Are you passionate about putting cutting‑edge AI directly into the hands of legal professionals? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal) on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of engineering, law, and client impact – partnering with lawyers, AI engineers, and solution architects to discover, design, and deploy bespoke legal AI solutions.

Your work will help translate complex legal workflows into trusted, production‑ready AI systems that support law firms and corporate legal departments in high‑stakes moments.

• Participate in high‑value client engagements, guiding technical discovery, scoping legal use cases, and building credibility with legal and technical stakeholders.

• Translate complex legal workflows, business pain points, and client goals into intelligent solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.

• Design and implement AI‑powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.

• Build RAG pipelines, custom AI agents, and multi‑step workflows that leverage CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and related enterprise systems.

• Lead LLM evaluation efforts for legal use cases, including benchmarking output quality, assessing hallucination risk, testing citation quality, and validating fitness for high‑stakes legal work.

• Ensure deployed solutions meet ethical AI, data protection, and enterprise security standards while maintaining the trust legal professionals expect.

• Mentor junior engineers, contribute reusable solution assets, and evaluate emerging AI techniques to improve quality and delivery across the team.

• JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience working within a legal practice environment.

• Fluency in legal terminology and demonstrated experience working directly with lawyers, legal teams, or legal operations stakeholders.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or LLM‑powered applications.

• Strong proficiency in Python and experience working with AI/ML frameworks and production‑grade AI systems.

• Strong understanding of machine learning concepts, LLM evaluation methodologies, prompt engineering, and AI system design for domain‑specific workflows.

• Experience building and integrating AI solutions into production environments using APIs, scalable pipelines, and modern cloud‑based tools.

• Excellent communication skills and comfort working independently in ambiguous, client‑facing settings with both legal and technical stakeholders.

• Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies that help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.

• Career Development and Growth: Continuous learning and skill development opportunities;
  Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensure you have tools to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI‑enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans, flexible vacation, two company‑wide mental health days off, access to Headspace app, retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and support for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Recognition for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, and work‑life balance; values include Obsess over Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge Your Thinking, Act Fast/Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities for pro‑bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.

• Making a Real‑World Impact: We help our customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency, and support the rule of law worldwide.

Base compensation range varies by location. For eligible US locations, base pay is between $118,400 and $219,800 USD, plus potential annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. Base pay is in addition to a comprehensive Total Reward program, including flexible benefits.