Thomson Reuters
Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer)
$127K–$237K
United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota
United States of America, Frisco, Texas
Canada, Toronto, Ontario - Experience
- 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in technical leadership and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture, development, and operation of backend and AI orchestration systems for Cloud Audit Suite, turning AI capabilities into reliable customer-facing workflows at scale.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, lead strategic initiatives, and mentor engineers across AI, platform, and infrastructure work.
- Architect and build backend services and AI orchestration, including MCP servers, tool calling, workflow routing, guardrails, and LLM integrations.
- Scale and operate reliable AI systems, including retrieval and search, observability, SLOs, and incident management.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.
- Track record of shipping production-grade AI systems to customers, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership in enterprise environments.
- Full Stack experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React or Angular; strong distributed systems expertise.
Nice to have
- CI/CD experience, including GitHub Actions; hands-on production integration of LLM platforms such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, retrieval systems, and regulated domains.
Pay
$127,400 USD - $236,600 USD (base salary); $140,000 CAD - $175,000 CAD (base salary)
Tools
C#/.NET, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel, JavaScript, TypeScript
AI focus
Builds production AI-enabled audit workflows, including LLM integrations, agent orchestration, MCP servers, retrieval and search, reliability, evaluation, and scaling.
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