Senior Software Engineer - Legal AI & Cloud (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way program

Mental Health Days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal workflows. You will work with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable software while applying legal-domain fluency.

You will develop cloud-native services, microservices, and AI prompts, evaluate outputs for legal accuracy, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the software lifecycle

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
• Fluency in legal terminology and experience with legal teams.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python and production-grade software development background.

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 and translate 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 with emphasis on security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, including assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, and safety.
• Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
• Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code to support secure, reliable deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design to prioritize work and improve the lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Legal-domain expertise

Distributed systems

Prompt engineering

Cloud-native

Strong communication

Education

JD or equivalent depth of experience

Job description

Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal workflows. You will work with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable software while applying legal-domain fluency.

You will develop cloud-native services, microservices, and AI prompts, evaluate outputs for legal accuracy, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the software lifecycle