Senior Legal AI Engineer, FDE (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Grow My Way program

Mental Health Days off

Tuition Reimbursement

Headspace app access

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer to design and deliver AI-powered workflows for sophisticated legal practice needs. You will work directly with customers and cross-functional teams to translate real-world legal requirements into practical AI solutions.

The role emphasizes deep legal expertise, AI tool fluency, and the ability to lead discovery sessions, prototype workflows, and drive adoption across legal teams.

Qualifications

• JD or LLB required or strongly preferred.
• 5+ years total experience, including at least 2 years in legal practice at a law firm or in-house legal department, or in a legal technology product role.
• Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
• Comfort working with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
• Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
• Advanced prompt-engineering skills, including the ability to design, test, iterate, and optimize prompts for legal-domain use cases.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both lawyers and engineers.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Strong client-facing skills, with the ability to build trust with lawyers, GCs, and legal leadership.
• Collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered solutions tailored to complex legal workflows and practice areas.
• Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges. Lead discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding, and enablement programs.
• Build and iterate on AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools, applying sound practices for security and reliability.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
• Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, rubrics, and regression checks, to systematically assess AI output quality across legal workflows.
• Train and enable legal teams on AI tool adoption, prompt best practices, and workflow integration.
• Share legal AI expertise through documentation, playbooks, and knowledge sharing with customers and internal teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the customer experience.

Skills

AI fluency

Legal knowledge

Prompt engineering

Client-facing

Python scripting

Education

JD or LLB (required or strongly preferred)

Tools

Python scripting

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer to design and deliver AI-powered workflows for sophisticated legal practice needs. You will work directly with customers and cross-functional teams to translate real-world legal requirements into practical AI solutions.

The role emphasizes deep legal expertise, AI tool fluency, and the ability to lead discovery sessions, prototype workflows, and drive adoption across legal teams.