Staff Software Engineer Architect AI, CoCounsel FDE

Are you a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how the worlds top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AIThomson Reuters is hiring aStaff Software Engineer / Architect - AIon our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)team.

In this role you will lead the architecture and delivery of bespoke production-grade AI solutions that help legal professionals solve complex high-stakes workflows with trust speed and accuracy. Working closely with AI Solution Engineers legal domain experts and cross-functional partners you will define how we build AI-native systems for some of the most sophisticated legal customers in the world.

About the Role
In this opportunity asStaff Software Engineer / Architect - AI you will:

• 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.

About You
Youre a fit for the role ofStaff Software Engineer / Architect - AIif your background includes:

• 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.

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Whats in it For You

• 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 $137100 USD - $254700 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.

This job posting will close 05/17/2026.

About Us

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