Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE

About this role

Are you a hands-on AI engineer who wants to build the next generation of legal AI solutions from the ground up?


Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - AI on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, turning architectural direction into robust, production-ready systems that legal professionals can trust.

You'll work closely with AI architects, legal AI experts, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact solutions that shape how legal work gets done.

About the Role
In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer - AI , you will:

• Design and implement AI-powered solutions tailored to legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
• Build scalable, secure, and maintainable AI systems within architectural frameworks defined by the AI Solutions Architect, including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop and configure multi-step agentic workflows using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Implement observability, evaluation, and quality controls for production AI systems, including monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming protocols.
• Participate in technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, translating legal workflows and business goals into clear engineering plans and prototypes.
• Partner closely with AI architects, legal AI engineers, and peers to deliver high-quality solutions, contribute reusable assets, and improve engineering practices across the team.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging AI techniques, interoperability standards, and prompt engineering approaches to improve solution quality and delivery speed.

About You
You're a fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer - AI if your background includes:

• 5+ years of so...