Senior Legal AI Engineer for Cloud-Native Legal Workflows

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); Hybride; USD 102 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work model

Mental health days

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

401k / retirement savings

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Résumé du poste

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to design and deliver AI-enabled legal workflows. You will work with clients and cross-functional teams to translate needs into scalable software, architect cloud-native systems, and push secure engineering practices.

Travel to customer sites may be required. The role requires a JD or equivalent legal depth, 5+ years of software engineering, and strong Python expertise, with a focus on responsible AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Qualifications

• JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
• Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and production-grade software.
• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native apps.
• Advanced prompt-engineering skills for legal-domain tasks.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.

Responsabilités

• Design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end software solutions for complex legal workflows and AI-enabled products.
• Partner with legal customers to understand needs and translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Architect and build cloud-native systems using microservices, APIs, containers, and orchestration.
• Develop production-grade Python software with strong security, testing, reliability, and maintainability practices.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases and assess outputs for accuracy and usability.
• Apply DevOps and IaC to support secure, reliable deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and coaching.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design to prioritize work and improve SDLC.

Connaissances

Python

Distributed systems

AI/LLM evaluation

Prompt engineering

Legal terminology

Communication

Independent work

Security

Code reviews/mentoring

Formation

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal training

Description du poste

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to design and deliver AI-enabled legal workflows. You will work with clients and cross-functional teams to translate needs into scalable software, architect cloud-native systems, and push secure engineering practices.

Travel to customer sites may be required. The role requires a JD or equivalent legal depth, 5+ years of software engineering, and strong Python expertise, with a focus on responsible AI, privacy, and confidentiality.