Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Search Platform

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in New York seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Enabled Software Engineering team to own the ingestion, indexing, and API layers of the next-generation search platform. Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production systems at scale for internal teams and AI agents.

You will work across OpenSearch/Vespa migrations, cloud infrastructure, and self-service APIs, mentoring juniors and collaborating with TR Labs to advance embedding models and retrieval strategies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with end-to-end ownership of features and components.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go and ability to pick the right tool for the job.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals: queues, streaming pipelines, and distributed data stores.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform and infrastructure as code.
• Operational ownership: on‑call, incident response, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate platform services for ingestion, indexing, and query APIs.
• Build reliable pipeline components for parsing, chunking, enrichment, and indexing.
• Develop self-service platform APIs for clients to configure search systems and monitor ingestion health.
• Lead design discussions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with TR Labs on new capabilities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Java/Go

AI-assisted development

On-call / incident response

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Vespa

Solr

Kafka

Job description

Thomson Reuters in New York seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Enabled Software Engineering team to own the ingestion, indexing, and API layers of the next-generation search platform. Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production systems at scale for internal teams and AI agents.

You will work across OpenSearch/Vespa migrations, cloud infrastructure, and self-service APIs, mentoring juniors and collaborating with TR Labs to advance embedding models and retrieval strategies.