Staff Software Engineer — Production AI & Backend

Thomson Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development

Mental health & wellbeing benefits

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - AI to advance the Confirmation product and AI capabilities. You will be hands-on in C#/.NET backend services and Python AI development, delivering scalable, secure enterprise-grade AI features.

As a staff engineer, you will guide architecture and engineering patterns, implement AI workflows, and ensure reliable, observable AI infrastructure across distributed systems and data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Strong, recent, hands-on C#/.NET production development experience.
• Hands-on Python experience for AI/ML system development.
• Demonstrated experience personally building and delivering AI/ML features into production.
• Strong hands-on platform and distributed-systems engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading complex engineering initiatives from architecture and hands-on implementation.
• Proven ability to operate as a hands-on Staff-level technical leader.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and deliver production backend and platform services using C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, AWS, microservices, and distributed-system patterns.
• Build production AI/ML capabilities using Python, including LLM integration, AI agents, orchestration, retrieval, and multi-step AI workflows.
• Lead hands-on AI engineering initiatives across product and infrastructure, including agent-based workflows and retrieval systems.
• Build and evolve AI orchestration capabilities, including routing, tool calling, MCP servers, multi-step workflows, safety controls, guardrails, evaluation, and resilient error handling around third-party LLMs.
• Design reliable, scalable, high-throughput distributed systems and AI workloads with caching, queuing, rate limiting, model failover, observability, resilience, and cost/performance optimization.
• Develop retrieval and data capabilities using document search, vector stores, embeddings, semantic search, and indexing strategies for audit/use cases.
• Provide hands-on Staff-level technical leadership by setting direction, mentoring engineers, and continuing to design, code, build, and deliver production systems.

Skills

C#/.NET

Python

AI/ML

Distributed systems

Microservices

AWS

PostgreSQL

REST/GraphQL APIs

LLM integration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

ASP.NET Core

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Vector databases

Kafka

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - AI to advance the Confirmation product and AI capabilities. You will be hands-on in C#/.NET backend services and Python AI development, delivering scalable, secure enterprise-grade AI features.

As a staff engineer, you will guide architecture and engineering patterns, implement AI workflows, and ensure reliable, observable AI infrastructure across distributed systems and data platforms.