Staff Engineer, Next-Gen Retrieval Platform

Thomson Reuters

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Retrieval Platform. You will architect and build scalable retrieval APIs, enabling customization across products, AI agents, and enterprise systems.

You will own ingestion/indexing pipelines and drive secure, observable, and reliable platform capabilities. You will collaborate with product, research engineering, and applied science teams to advance retrieval techniques and ensure production readiness, with mentorship

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering with progression to staff-level scope.
Experience building search, retrieval, or data-intensive platforms at scale.
Track record translating customer needs into platform capabilities.
Experience designing APIs and services used by multiple teams.
Operational rigor: SLOs, observability, and on-call ownership.
Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

Design retrieval APIs and search services for end users, AI agents, and internal systems.
Make retrieval customizable with pluggable components for chunking, embedding, ranking, and models.
Own content ingestion and indexing with streaming pipelines and zero-downtime index changes.
Lead cross-team initiatives and set architectural direction across retrieval platforms.
Mentor engineers and drive AI-assisted development adoption.
Partner with product, research, and applied science to productionize new techniques.