Software Engineer, Legal Prompter

Thomson Reuters; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Mental Health Days off

Headspace app access

Retirement savings plans

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

Volunteering days off

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter to build innovative LLM-powered experiences for the legal sector. You will craft prompts, write Python code, and integrate models with APIs and data sources while collaborating with legal professionals and cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 1–2 years of production software experience, strong English, and a passion for AI, law, and problem-solving in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Australian legal market
• Excellent written and spoken English required
• 1–2 years production-level software engineering experience
• Strong Python skills or equivalent programming language
• Familiarity with APIs and SQL is a plus
• Analytical problem-solving and collaboration skills
• Proven ability to write clear, contextual prompts for LLMs

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight customers.
• Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs.
• Write, test and iterate prompts leveraging legal domain knowledge.
• Develop Python code that interfaces with data sources & APIs/SQL databases.
• Liaise with legal professionals and Thomson Reuters teams to gather requirements.
• Integrate language models into multi-step systems and monitor performance.

Skills

Legal domain expertise

English proficiency

Software engineering

Python programming

APIs

SQL

Analytical thinking

Prose writing

LLM experience

Tools

Python

APIs

SQL

Job description

Software Engineer, Legal Prompter

Join CoCounsel International as a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter!

We're seeking a skilled Software Engineer to craft innovative LLM-driven experiences that revolutionize the legal industry. As a Legal Prompter, you'll leverage your legal domain expertise and Python programming skills to develop accurate and contextually relevant responses. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate language models, gather requirements, and drive exceptional customer experiences. If you're a motivated engineer with a passion for AI, law, and problem-solving, we want to hear from you!

About the role

In this opportunity as a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter (CoCounsel International), you will:

• Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs


• Write, test, and iterate prose prompts for the LLM that leverage your legal domain knowledge, ensuring delivery of accurate, legally sound, and contextually appropriate responses


• Develop Python code that interacts with data sources & services (APIs, SQL databases, etc.)


• Liaise with legal professionals and other teams at Thomson Reuters to gather and understand requirements


• Integrate the language models into multi-step systems, assessing their performance and making necessary modifications

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Software Engineer, Legal Prompter (CoCounsel International) if you have the following required qualifications:

• Legal domain expertise experience in the Australian legal market. This can mean experience in legal practice, a degree holder in a "non-traditional" legal career path, a paralegal, or other legal industry experience


• Highly proficient in written and spoken English. This can mean you are a native speaker, have a BA in the language or equivalent certification, or can demonstrate college-level proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in that language.


• One to two years of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team, preferably at a startup


• Proficiency in Python - if Python skills are low, then strong experience in other programming languages is necessary


• Proficiency with APIs and SQL is a major plus


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment


• Creative and clear writing skills. Experience using large language models through code is preferred (such as model services from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere; and/or open source models such as Llama and Mistral)

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.




• 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, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.




• 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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.




• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer 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, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.




• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.




• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.




• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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