Senior Software Engineer – AI (Westlaw AI)

Senior Software Engineer AI (Westlaw AI)

Are you passionate about building AI-driven software that transforms how professionals work

Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters where we invest deeply in AI technologies and explore emerging fields with the backing of a global brand.

As a Senior Software Engineer AI you will play a key role in developing intelligent systems that power the next generation of expert solutions across legal tax risk and compliance domains.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer AI you will collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers UX designers and engineers to design build and deliver AI-powered solutions.

Build AI-Driven Systems:

• Architect and implement advanced AI systems including multi-component pipelines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and custom AI agents with multi-step reasoning.
• Integrate AI models into production software through robust APIs and scalable data pipelines.
• Adapt AI models and techniques to specialized domains tailoring solutions for expert systems in areas such as legal tax and compliance.

Innovate:

• Evaluate and prototype cutting-edge AI techniques to solve business challenges.
• Conduct proof-of-concept projects for new AI-driven features.
• Stay current with AI research and emerging technologies.

Provide Technical Leadership:

• Break down ambiguous requirements into scalable technical specifications.
• Mentor junior engineers and facilitate technical discussions.
• Contribute to ML blogs and LLMOps practices within the team.
• Present thought leadership at internal and external forums representing the organization in emerging technology areas.

Ensure Quality & Operations:

• Implement comprehensive testing frameworks and monitoring systems for AI model performance.
• Ensure strong data governance bias analysis and security standards.
• Conduct scalability analysis and recommend operational improvements.

Collaborate Across Functions:

• Work closely with AI researchers designers and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications.
• Optimize AI system performance considering factors like latency and resource usage.
• Drive collaboration to feature enhancements through AI capabilities.

About You

You are a fit for the position of Senior Software Engineer AI if your background includes:

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering; at least 2 years focused on AI/ML.
• Strong foundation and experience with AI/ML model development.
• Sound understanding of machine learning principles evaluation and system design.
• Experience with integrating models into end-to-end production-grade applications.
• Experience integrating AI models into production systems and APIs at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and containerized tools (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python and related frameworks for building AI-powered systems.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with LLM-driven systems agent-based architectures or AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience with vector databases embeddings or search-based AI.
• Domain knowledge in legal tax or compliance systems.
• A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs.

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Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: 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. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer 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 and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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