Staff Software Engineer AI I

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Sotware Engineer AI to lead the design and delivery of AI-powered applications using .NET Azure AI Services and Azure OpenAI leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Semantic Kernel for agentic orchestration. Own end-to-end solution quality (performance security reliability) and mentor engineers across teams.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer AI you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build .NET services and APIs integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search for hybrid retrieval and grounding.
• Build agentic workflows with tool/function calling planning memory and safe execution boundaries.
• Develop Semantic Kernel plugins/skills; configure planners connectors and memory stores.
• Implement observability for AI systems (cost latency token usage quality metrics; App Insights/OpenTelemetry).
• Partner with product security and data teams to align solutions with compliance and business outcomes.
• Mentor engineers; lead design reviews write RFCs and drive engineering excellence.

About You

You are a potential fit for Staff Software Engineer AI if your background includes:

Must-Have Skills

• C#/.NET 7/8/9: Advanced async streaming DI clean architecture performance tuning.
• Core: REST APIs authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT) caching resiliency.
• Azure AI Services:
  • Azure OpenAI: GPT models embeddings function calling streaming responses cost optimization.
  • Azure AI Search: Indexing hybrid search (BM25 vectors) skillsets enrichers re-ranking.
  • Azure AI Foundry: Prompt flow orchestration evaluation pipelines.
• RAG: Chunking strategies metadata enrichment hybrid retrieval citation fidelity.
• Agentic AI: Multi-tool orchestration planners memory error recovery guardrails.
• Semantic Kernel (C#): Kernels semantic/native skills connectors planners memory stores.
• Infrastructure: RabbitMQ PostgreSQL Kubernetes
• Security & Compliance: PII handling data residency auditability threat modeling basics.
• Testing & Quality: Unit/integration/contract tests load tests CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub).

Nice-to-Have

• Azure Cognitive Services: Document Intelligence Speech Vision for multimodal AI.
• Azure AI Search advanced: Custom scoring profiles multi-source ingestion (SharePoint Blob).
• Observability for AI quality: hallucination detection RAG evaluation (RAGAS/rubrics).
• Front-end integration: Blazor/Angular for streaming UX.
• Knowledge graphs: Neo4j/RDF for advanced retrieval.

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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.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $147000 USD - $273000 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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.

We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity accuracy fairness and transparency are under attack we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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