Senior AI Engineer - Tax & Audit Backend (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Career Development

Mental Health Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee incentives

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in Frisco, TX, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and deploy production AI solutions for tax and audit professionals, combining Python, backend engineering, LLMs, and client-facing delivery to translate business needs into secure applications.

You will lead simpler client builds, collaborate with Staff and Principal engineers, and shape scalable, observable systems with emphasis on reliability, security, and auditability across engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong system design and architecture.
• At least 2 years building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
• Strong Python and backend engineering skills (REST APIs, asynchronous services, event-driven systems).
• Hands-on experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen.
• Experience deploying secure applications on AWS/Azure/GCP with IaC, CI/CD, observability and AI evaluation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own client delivery on simpler builds and standard integrations, translating ambiguous needs into clear technical scope and handoffs.
• Build production AI applications including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and multi-step workflows for tax and audit tasks.
• Develop scalable, secure backend services and connect solutions to Thomson Reuters products and client systems.
• Establish AI evaluation, observability, monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and adversarial testing.
• Partner with Tax & Audit AI Engineers to translate tax rules into engineering plans and evaluation criteria.
• Manage delivery across multiple engagements with early discovery, prototyping, and pre-sales discussions.
• Support deployments through post-launch stabilization, runbooks, and reusable components.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Backend design

Client-facing delivery

Cloud deployment

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

PydanticAI

AutoGen

Job description

Thomson Reuters in Frisco, TX, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and deploy production AI solutions for tax and audit professionals, combining Python, backend engineering, LLMs, and client-facing delivery to translate business needs into secure applications.

You will lead simpler client builds, collaborate with Staff and Principal engineers, and shape scalable, observable systems with emphasis on reliability, security, and auditability across engagements.