Staff AI Engineer & Architect - Production ML Leader

Reuters; Frisco, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Architect – AI to join our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. This hybrid US-based role collaborates with customers to understand complex problems, design AI-powered solutions, and deploy them into production.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership, with experience in production AI/ML or LLM-powered systems and strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience required.
• Hands-on software engineering and architecture experience required.
• Production AI/ML or LLM-powered systems experience required.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience working with customers or business stakeholders to identify problems and build solutions.
• Strong understanding of scalable APIs, services, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to understand problems and translate into scalable AI solutions.
• Architect, build, and deliver production-grade AI applications and services.
• Develop solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, and enterprise integrations.
• Design secure, scalable architectures that integrate with customer-owned and Thomson Reuters infrastructure.
• Contribute hands-on to software development, APIs, services, deployment, and production operations.
• Build reusable components, patterns, and frameworks for multiple customer engagements.
• Establish observability, monitoring, MLOps/LLMOps, security, and governance practices.
• Participate in design reviews and mentor engineers on architecture and implementation.
• Work across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to drive solutions from discovery through production deployment.

Skills

8+ years of software engineering

Hands-on software engineering

Production AI/ML

LLMs & RAG

Customer collaboration

APIs & distributed systems

Full lifecycle delivery

Communication skills

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Architect – AI to join our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. This hybrid US-based role collaborates with customers to understand complex problems, design AI-powered solutions, and deploy them into production.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership, with experience in production AI/ML or LLM-powered systems and strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.