Principal AI Engineer & Architect — Production Systems

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Mental Health Days off

Tuition Reimbursement

401k with company match

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect for AI, Forward Deployed Engineering. You will design, build, and deliver production AI solutions for complex customer environments, while remaining deeply hands-on with code and architecture.

This role blends technical leadership with direct customer interaction and production delivery. You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and translate customer learnings into scalable capabilities for the CoCounsel

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with principal or architect-level leadership.
• Experience designing and delivering complex production software systems.
• Hands-on coding and code review in production environments.
• AI/ML and Generative AI in production contexts.
• Architecting AI solutions that integrate with enterprise/infrastructure.
• Leadership across complex projects and customer engagements.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AI/ML expertise

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Production code

Architectural design

Customer engagements

Strong communication

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect for AI, Forward Deployed Engineering. You will design, build, and deliver production AI solutions for complex customer environments, while remaining deeply hands-on with code and architecture.

This role blends technical leadership with direct customer interaction and production delivery. You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and translate customer learnings into scalable capabilities for the CoCounsel