Thomson Reuters
Lead AI Forward Engineer
$127K–$237K
United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota
United States of America, Frisco, Texas - Experience
- 6+ years of progressive experience in solution architecture, technical strategy, senior engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
About the job
Designs and delivers production AI solutions and observability capabilities for CIO technology teams, from identifying use cases through architecture, implementation, and operational oversight.
What you'll do
- Identify AI automation opportunities and translate team needs into end-to-end solution designs and production delivery plans.
- Build AI observability pipelines, dashboards, evaluations, guardrails, and reliability controls; integrate monitoring into CI/CD and operational workflows.
- Establish reusable architecture patterns, guide teams, and communicate technical decisions while mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of progressive experience in solution architecture, technical strategy, senior engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
- Experience taking prototypes to production and designing end-to-end solutions, including integration patterns, APIs, data flows, distributed systems, and operational design.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and LLM application patterns and production AI trade-offs; experience with production AI systems and related telemetry, monitoring, evaluation, or operations.
- Proficiency in Python; familiarity with cloud architecture in AWS, Azure, or GCP, and knowledge of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE principles.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable LLM frameworks; experience with AI observability and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience designing AI guardrails or safety controls, or exposure to enterprise service management platforms such as ServiceNow.
Pay
$127,400 USD - $236,600 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, ServiceNow, CI/CD
AI focus
Hands-on design, implementation, production operations, observability, evaluation, and governance of AI/ML and LLM systems, including agent workflows, RAG, telemetry, guardrails, and reliability controls.
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