Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE

About this role

Are you a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape how the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AI? Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on 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 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 patter...