Senior Software Engineer - Legal AI (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Tuition Reimbursement

Headspace app

Mental Health Days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal professionals. You will work with customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable software and to advance advanced prompting strategies for legal-domain tasks.

Join a team that values secure engineering, privacy, and ethical AI while delivering measurable impact across the legal workflow, data handling, and cloud-native architectures in a hybrid

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
• 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 applications.
• Strong knowledge of AI/LLM evaluation methodologies.
• Advanced prompt-engineering skills for legal-domain use cases.
• Experience evaluating AI outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.

Responsibilities

• 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 modern cloud-native systems using distributed services, microservices, APIs, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Develop production-grade Python software with focus on security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate AI/LLM solutions for legal use cases and assess outputs for accuracy and usability.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work and improve lifecycle.

Skills

Legal tech

Python

Distributed systems

AI/LLM evaluation

Prompt engineering

Cloud-native

Communication

Education

JD or legal training

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal professionals. You will work with customers and cross-functional teams to translate needs into secure, scalable software and to advance advanced prompting strategies for legal-domain tasks.

Join a team that values secure engineering, privacy, and ethical AI while delivering measurable impact across the legal workflow, data handling, and cloud-native architectures in a hybrid