Principal AI Engineer & Architect — Hands-On Leader

Thomson Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way

Career Development

Industry Benefits

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI for the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. This highly technical, hands-on role blends architectural leadership with practical production coding and customer engagement to deliver AI solutions.

You will guide complex AI projects across enterprise environments, mentor engineers, and shape reusable product capabilities while aligning with product strategy and customer needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years software engineering with principal/architect level leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead highly complex technical and customer engagements from discovery through production delivery.
• Architect, build, and deploy production AI solutions within customer environments.
• Write production code regularly and review the work of Senior, Staff, and Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Provide technical direction across AI, software architecture, integration, security, and deployment decisions.
• Work with customers to understand environments, constraints, and business needs.
• Translate customer learnings into scalable product capabilities.

Skills

12+ years experience

AI/ML in production

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Production code

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Customer engagements

Mentorship

Security & reliability

Communication

Open-source / publications

Tools

LLM platforms

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI for the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. This highly technical, hands-on role blends architectural leadership with practical production coding and customer engagement to deliver AI solutions.

You will guide complex AI projects across enterprise environments, mentor engineers, and shape reusable product capabilities while aligning with product strategy and customer needs.