Staff AI Engineer: Production Backend & AI

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development programs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – AI to join the Confirmation Product Engineering team. You will stay hands-on while providing staff-level leadership, delivering production AI capabilities and robust backend services using C#/.NET and Python.

You will design scalable distributed systems, work with LLMs, and partner with cross-functional teams to establish AI engineering patterns and reliable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive software engineering including architecture and delivery of large-scale systems.
• Strong C#/.NET production development experience for backend services and APIs.
• Hands-on Python experience for AI/ML system development including model integration and orchestration.
• Experience delivering AI/ML features into production, including LLM-powered apps and AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and deliver production backend and platform services using C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, AWS, microservices, and distributed systems patterns.
• Build production AI/ML capabilities using Python, including LLM integration and AI agents.
• Lead hands-on AI engineering initiatives across product and infrastructure, including agent-based workflows and retrieval systems.
• Develop AI orchestration capabilities, including routing, tool calling, MCP servers, and multi-step workflows.
• Design scalable distributed systems with caching, queuing, rate limiting, and robust error handling around third-party LLMs.
• Create retrieval and data capabilities using document search, vector stores, embeddings, and semantic search.

Skills

C#/.NET

Python for AI/ML

LLM-powered features

Distributed systems

Backend APIs (REST/GraphQL)

AI engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

ASP.NET Core

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – AI to join the Confirmation Product Engineering team. You will stay hands-on while providing staff-level leadership, delivering production AI capabilities and robust backend services using C#/.NET and Python.

You will design scalable distributed systems, work with LLMs, and partner with cross-functional teams to establish AI engineering patterns and reliable infrastructure.