Lead AI Engineer, Agent Platform for Legal Tech

CAN002 Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd; Zug; Hybrid; CHF 148,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way

Grow My Way

Headspace app

Retirement savings

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

Mental Health Days off

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to define architecture for production AI agent systems, integrating with modern LLM APIs and agent SDKs. You will steer cross-cutting initiatives, design scalable platforms, and ensure reliability.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, RFCs, feature flag delivery, and mentorship, with a hybrid work model and opportunities to shape how AI-native tooling transforms legal workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI-native agent systems in production.
• Hands-on with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and drive architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across high-priority AI agent initiatives.
• Architect production AI agent systems on LLM APIs and orchestration infra.
• Design observability, evaluation pipelines, and deployment practices.
• Lead RFCs/ADRs and cross-team reviews.
• Mentor a senior engineering team and shape engineering culture.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

LLM / AI agent frameworks

Observability & monitoring

Tools

AWS Bedrock AgentCore

LLM SDKs

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to define architecture for production AI agent systems, integrating with modern LLM APIs and agent SDKs. You will steer cross-cutting initiatives, design scalable platforms, and ensure reliability.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, RFCs, feature flag delivery, and mentorship, with a hybrid work model and opportunities to shape how AI-native tooling transforms legal workflows.