Senior Legal AI Engineer - Cloud-Native Law Tech

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Tuition Reimbursement

Mental Health Days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered software for legal workflows. You will work with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable products.

You will build cloud-native systems, evaluate AI/LLM outputs for legal accuracy, and mentor junior engineers while applying rigorous security and reliability practices. Travel to customer sites may be required.

Qualifications

• JD or formal legal training or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and building production-grade software.
• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
• Advanced prompt-engineering skills for legal-domain use cases.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end software solutions for complex legal workflows and AI-enabled products.
• Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges, translating requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Architect and build modern cloud-native systems using distributed services, microservices, APIs, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Develop production-grade Python software while applying strong engineering practices for security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, including assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
• Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
• Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices to support secure, reliable, and automated deployments.
• Manage technical debt effectively while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability and system health.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native

Prompt engineering

AI & LLM evaluation

Security

Education

JD or formal legal training

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered software for legal workflows. You will work with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable products.

You will build cloud-native systems, evaluate AI/LLM outputs for legal accuracy, and mentor junior engineers while applying rigorous security and reliability practices. Travel to customer sites may be required.