Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE

About the Role

In this opportunity as Staff 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

You’re a fit for the role of Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI if 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, Lang Smith, 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.

Benefits

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees, including market‑competitive health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance programs, a competitive 401(k) plan with company match, competitive vacation, sick and paid holiday time, two company‑wide Mental Health Days off, parental leave, sabbatical leave and many optional benefits such as health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• 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.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a…