Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal), CoCounsel FDE

About this role

Are you passionate about putting cutting-edge AI directly into the hands of legal professionals? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal) on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team.


In this role, you will work at the intersection of engineering, law, and client impact — partnering with lawyers, AI engineers, and solution architects to discover, design, and deploy bespoke legal AI solutions.


Your work will help translate complex legal workflows into trusted, production-ready AI systems that support law firms and corporate legal departments in high-stakes moments.


About The Role
In this opportunity as
Senior Software Engineer - AI (Legal)
, you will:

• Participate in high-value client engagements, guiding technical discovery, scoping legal use cases, and building credibility with legal and technical stakeholders.
• Translate complex legal workflows, business pain points, and client goals into intelligent solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
• Design and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
• Build RAG pipelines, custom AI agents, and multi-step workflows that leverage CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and related enterprise systems.
• Lead LLM evaluation efforts for legal use cases, including benchmarking output quality, assessing hallucination risk, testing citation quality, and validating fitness for high-stakes legal work.
• Ensure deployed solutions meet ethical AI, data protection, and enterprise security standards while maintaining the trust legal professionals expect.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute reusable solution assets, and evaluate emerging AI techniques to improve quality and delivery across the team.

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

• JD, formal legal traini...