LeadStaff Software Engineer, AI

Lead/Staff Software Engineer AI

Are you ready to shape the future of AIdriven tax automation Were looking for a Senior AI Engineer to build and scale intelligent workflows using modern LLM/ML tooling. Your work will directly impact how tax professionals automate complex highstakes processes and access critical information.

Youll join our Tax and Accounting Professionals 1040 Scan product engineering team and own the design implementation and optimization of AIpowered tax workflowsfrom data ingestion to production deployment.

1040SCAN is the market-leading scan-and-populate engine in the 1040 workflow organizing workpapers extracting data and exporting to tax software at scale. As a Senior AI engineer you will modernize the AI that powers document understanding extraction and verificationexpanding coverage and accuracy while reducing human effort.

About the role

As a Lead/Staff Software Engineer AI you will:

• Advance document intelligence:Build generalizable models for tax documents (standard and nonstandard) using CV/NLP/LLMs and embeddings to move beyond fixed OCR templates with dynamic contextaware parsing.

• Boost autoverification & quality:Improve nativePDF/textlayer matching anomaly detection and prioryearaware checks to catch issues before human review; design humanintheloop flows that preserve practitioner control.

• Scale the pipeline:Productionize lowlatency training/inference pipelines over millions of documents with robust observability evaluation and drift monitoring.

• Integrate LLMs and traditional ML models into robust auditable workflows that support tax determination document processing and rulesbased automation.

• Build and maintain data pipelines feature extraction and preprocessing for taxrelevant data (e.g. invoices filings transactional data).

• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs / microservices to expose AI capabilities to internal and external systems.

• Ensure solutions meet compliance security and auditability requirements typical of tax and regulated domains.

• Youll collaborate across SurePrep engineering and other Thomson Reuters product & engineering teams leveraging TRs AI platforms including Materia and Additive to deliver reliable auditable AI in production.

About you

Youre a fit for the role of Lead/Staff Software Engineer AI if your background includes:

• 5 years in applied ML/AI(or 5 with an advanced degree) delivering production systems in document AI/OCR/NLP or information extraction at scale.

• Strong Python and deep learning expertise(PyTorch/TensorFlow) with experience in LLMs embeddings/vector search prompt design/evaluation and statistical methods for quality and uncertainty.

• Cloudnative ML ops experience:training/inference pipelines feature/data stores observability cost/perf optimization.

• Own endtoend lifecycle for AI features: design implementation testing deployment monitoring iteration.

• Optimize model/workflow inference for latency throughput and cost including caching batching and model selection strategies.

• Implement monitoring logging tracing and alerting for workflows and models in production (data drift model performance error rates).

• Debug and troubleshoot complex AI systems in production including prompt failures integration bugs and data quality issues.

• Partner with Product Tax SMEs and other engineering teams to translate business/tax requirements into AI workflows.

• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers on model selection evaluation and experimentation within Reducto pipelines.

• Lead design reviews perform code reviews and mentor midlevel/junior engineers on AI best practices and productiongrade coding.

• Contribute to internal standards best practices and templates for building AI workflows with Reducto.

• Youve builtendtoend AI featuresthat are running in production not just prototypes.

• You can take a vague tax/business requirement and turn it into a concrete testable workflow design.

• You care aboutrobustness and correctnessas much as clevernessespecially in domains where errors have financial or compliance impact.

• Youre comfortable reading tax/business rules and working with domain experts even if youre not a tax specialist yourself.

Preferred Qualifications

• Document AI background:layout parsing table extraction doctype classification nativePDF matching and verification automation.

• Agentic/LLM orchestration experience:familiarity with TR AI platforms such as Materia and Additive; retrievalaugmented and tooluse patterns; evaluation and guardrails.

• Modern Development Practices: Hands-on with modern AI coding assistants including Claude Code Cline and GitHub Copilot for rapid prototyping code generation and workflow automation.

• Version control: Experience with version control (Git) testing frameworks (pytest or similar) and modern DevOps practices.

• Software Engineering: Familiarity with C# Java or any other programming language

• Domain familiarity:exposure to tax/financial document workflows or other regulated content systems is a plus.

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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.

In the United States Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health dental vision disability and life insurance programs as well as a competitive 401k plan with company addition Thomson Reuters offers 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. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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