Senior AI Software Engineer - LegalTech Platform

TRSS; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Career Growth

Competitive Benefits

Mental Health Days

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI) to drive the technical direction of its CoCounsel AI products for legal professionals. You will lead a team delivering agentic, real-time AI features, while shaping a cloud-native architecture and a fast-paced delivery culture.

You will architect backend services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers and designers to turn early AI concepts into scalable, production-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in technical leadership and 3+ years building scalable cloud apps and AI-enabled products.
• Strong Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL skills and experience with AWS or Azure cloud services; solid distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for production web apps and automated testing; ability to ship production AI systems.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and architect AI agentic systems in collaboration with the Engineering Manager and full stack team.
• Lead technical strategy, experimentation, testing, rollout practices, and operational excellence.
• Design and implement backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL for real-time AI interactions; support agentic workflows and LLM orchestration.
• Define service boundaries, interfaces, and scalable architectural patterns for the AI platform.
• Support frontend engineers with a complex Agentic UI using SSE, AG-UI, Claude Agent SDK, and AgentCore.
• Drive innovation, evaluate new AI techniques, and translate insights into technical roadmaps; mentor engineers.
• Ensure quality, security, and observability; ensure ethical AI, security standards, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Claude Agent SDK

AgentCore

SSE

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI) to drive the technical direction of its CoCounsel AI products for legal professionals. You will lead a team delivering agentic, real-time AI features, while shaping a cloud-native architecture and a fast-paced delivery culture.

You will architect backend services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers and designers to turn early AI concepts into scalable, production-ready capabilities.