Senior Legal Engineer: AI-Powered Legal Solutions

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flex My Way policies

Two Mental Health Days off

401k with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer in New York to design, build, and deploy AI-powered software for legal workflows. You will work with lawyers and engineers to translate customer needs into secure, scalable solutions, leveraging cloud-native architectures and advanced prompting strategies.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python development, rigorous security and reliability practices, and collaboration across product, legal, and design teams.

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent depth of experience in legal practice.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering.
• Strong Python proficiency for production-grade software.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native apps.
• Experience evaluating AI and LLM outputs for legal use cases.

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

Cloud-native

LLM evaluation

Prompt engineering

Legal domain

Education

JD or legal training

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer in New York to design, build, and deploy AI-powered software for legal workflows. You will work with lawyers and engineers to translate customer needs into secure, scalable solutions, leveraging cloud-native architectures and advanced prompting strategies.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python development, rigorous security and reliability practices, and collaboration across product, legal, and design teams.