[Remote] Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI on their CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to lead the architecture and delivery of AI solutions for legal professionals. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and build AI-native systems tailored to complex legal workflows.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
- Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach
- 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
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- Social Impact Institute
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- 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
- 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
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
Company Overview
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