Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI

Are you passionate about building AI-driven software that transforms how professionals work? Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters, where we invest deeply in AI technologies and explore emerging fields with the backing of a global leader. As a Senior Software Engineer - AI, you will play a key role in developing intelligent systems that power the next generation of expert solutions across legal, tax, risk, and compliance domains.

About The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer - AI II, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, and engineers to design, build, and deliver AI-powered solutions.

• Architect and implement advanced AI systems, including multi-component pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and custom AI agents with multi-step reasoning.

• Integrate AI models into production software through robust APIs and scalable data pipelines.

• Adapt AI models and techniques to specialized domains, tailoring solutions for expert systems in areas such as legal, tax, and compliance.

• Evaluate and prototype cutting-edge AI techniques to solve business challenges.

• Conduct proof-of-concept projects for new AI-driven features.

• Stay current with AI research and emerging technologies.

• Break down functional requirements into scalable technical specifications.

• Mentor junior engineers and facilitate technical discussions

• Contribute to MLOps and LLMOps practices, both in design and implementation.

• Act as a thought leader, sharing expertise in company-wide forums and representing the organization in emerging technology areas.

• Implement comprehensive testing frameworks and monitoring systems for AI model performance

• Ensure compliance with ethical AI principles and security standards.

• Conduct systems analysis and recommend operational improvements.

• Work closely with AI researchers, engineers, designers and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications.

• Optimize AI system performance considering factors like latency and resource usage.

• Support application feature enhancements through AI capabilities.

About You:

You are a fit for the position of Senior Software Engineer- AI if your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering; at least 2 years focused on AI/ML.

• Proficiency in Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).

• Strong understanding of machine learning principles, evaluation, and system design.

• Knowledge of MLOps and the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered software applications.

• Experience integrating AI models into production systems using APIs and data pipelines.

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, or AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.

• Domain knowledge in legal, tax, or accounting.

• A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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