Senior Legal AI Engineer, Forward-Deployed Solutions

Thomson Reuters Corp.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way benefits

Career Development

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Corp. seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to design, prototype, and deploy AI-powered workflows for complex legal practice. You will collaborate with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate real-world needs into practical, high-impact legal AI solutions, blending deep legal knowledge with AI fluency.

This hybrid role supports multiple U.S. and international locations; a JD/LLB and 5+ years of experience are required, with strong prompt-engineering and AI evaluation

Qualifications

• JD or LLB (required or strongly preferred).
• 5+ years of total professional 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.

Job description

Thomson Reuters Corp. seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to design, prototype, and deploy AI-powered workflows for complex legal practice. You will collaborate with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate real-world needs into practical, high-impact legal AI solutions, blending deep legal knowledge with AI fluency.

This hybrid role supports multiple U.S. and international locations; a JD/LLB and 5+ years of experience are required, with strong prompt-engineering and AI evaluation