Hybrid Staff AI Engineer & Architect: Production LLM Apps

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Work-life balance

Career development

Benefits

Culture

Social impact

Real-world impact

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Architect – AI to join the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team in a hybrid capacity in Toronto. The role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, architecture, product development, and customer delivery, requiring hands-on work from discovery to production deployment.

You will design reusable AI capabilities while solving customer-specific challenges in complex enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Strong hands-on software engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience building and deploying production AI/ML or LLM-powered systems.
• Knowledge of LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, observability and enterprise integrations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers and stakeholders to translate problems into scalable AI solutions.
• Architect, build, and deliver production-grade AI applications and services.
• Develop solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, and enterprise integrations.
• Design secure, scalable architectures that integrate with customer infrastructures and Thomson Reuters systems.
• Contribute hands-on to software development, APIs, services, deployment, and production operations.
• Build reusable technical components and frameworks for multiple engagements.
• Establish observability, monitoring, MLOps/LLMOps, security and governance practices.
• Mentor engineers on architecture and participate in design reviews.

Skills

AI engineering

Software architecture

Customer delivery

Production systems

LLMs

Tools

Python

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Architect – AI to join the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team in a hybrid capacity in Toronto. The role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, architecture, product development, and customer delivery, requiring hands-on work from discovery to production deployment.

You will design reusable AI capabilities while solving customer-specific challenges in complex enterprise environments.