Software Engineer - AI – CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering
Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Job summary
Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking an AI engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered legal solutions. You will collaborate with AI solution engineers, architects, and legal stakeholders to understand workflows and translate requirements into scalable implementations.
You will develop RAG pipelines, integrate with enterprise platforms, and help ensure accuracy and security of AI outputs across legal use cases.
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience in production environments.
- Hands-on Python development and familiarity with modern AI/ML tooling and APIs.
- Understanding of core ML/LLM concepts, including prompt design and workflow orchestration.
- Experience integrating external APIs, automating workflows, or building data pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal customers.
- Participate in technical discovery sessions, gathering requirements and scoping use cases.
- Develop RAG pipelines and multi-component AI systems.
- Evaluate LLM outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, and citation quality.
- Translate requirements into technical tasks and implementation plans.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to ensure scalable, secure solutions.
Skills
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Job description
- You will partner with AI Solution Engineers, Architects, and senior technical teammates to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions for legal customers.
- Support client engagements by participating in technical discovery sessions, gathering requirements, and helping scope legal AI use cases.
- Work with legal and technical stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes.
- Assist with demonstrations, proofs of concept, and early-stage prototypes that inform solution design.
- Develop working knowledge of legal terminology, legal processes, and operational constraints in law firms and corporate legal departments.
- Design, develop, and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
- Build and support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic workflows, and other multi-component AI systems.
- Configure and integrate solutions using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and other enterprise platforms where applicable.
- Develop automation scripts, APIs, and integration components tailored to customer environments and use cases.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and secure.
- Help evaluate LLM outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, citation quality, consistency, and hallucination risk.
- Contribute to test cases, benchmarks, and evaluation workflows based on real legal tasks.
- Partner with internal teams to validate new capabilities against real-world legal use cases.
- Support compliance with responsible AI principles, data privacy requirements, and enterprise security standards.
- Translate functional requirements into technical tasks and contribute to implementation planning.
- Document solutions, reusable components, and engineering best practices for internal use.
- Experiment with prompting strategies, workflow improvements, and emerging AI techniques to improve legal use-case performance.
- Stay current with developments in AI engineering, legal technology, and applied LLM systems.
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience, including experience building applications or integrations in production environments.
- Hands‑on experience with Python and familiarity with modern AI/ML tooling and APIs.
- Understanding of core machine learning and LLM concepts, including prompt design, evaluation, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience integrating external APIs, automating workflows, or building data pipelines.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams, including legal, product, and engineering stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in fast‑paced environments, learning quickly, and contributing across multiple projects.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with containerization, deployment workflows, and modern software development practices.
- Experience using AI platforms or APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar providers.
- Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, search, or retrieval systems.
- Experience working on AI solutions in legal, compliance, financial, healthcare, or other regulated/professional domains.
- Portfolio or project examples demonstrating practical use of LLMs, automations, or applied AI systems.
- #LI-GK1 This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.
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