Thomson Reuters
Staff Software Engineer - AI II
$137K–$293K
United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota +4 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota
United States of America, Frisco, Texas
United States of America, New York, New York
Canada, Toronto, Ontario
United States of America, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in senior or lead AI/ML systems roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; Master’s preferred.
About the job
Architect and build production-scale AI systems and foundations for intelligent Westlaw legal research experiences.
What you'll do
- Design and implement AI systems, including RAG pipelines, knowledge graph architectures, and autonomous agents, across backend and web systems.
- Set AI technical strategy, evaluate emerging techniques, and lead architecture decisions, mentoring, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
- Partner across research, engineering, design, and product to deliver secure, observable AI applications and optimize their performance and business value.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in senior or lead roles on AI/ML systems.
- Hands-on generative AI, RAG, or LLM-based systems experience across discovery, architecture, agentic tools, evaluation, deployment, and metrics.
- Expert-level Python or another object-oriented language; strong backend and API design skills, plus experience with ML principles, distributed systems, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree; experience with agent-based systems, AI APIs, vector databases, semantic search, or knowledge graphs.
- Regulated-industry or large-scale search expertise, enterprise AI product launches, AI governance, or AI/ML publications, patents, or speaking experience.
Pay
$158,000 USD - $293,000 USD (base salary; eligible locations listed); $137,100 USD - $254,700 USD (base salary; other eligible US locations)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Neo4j
AI focus
Build enterprise AI foundations for legal research, including generative AI, RAG, autonomous agents, knowledge graphs, AI evaluation, deployment, governance, and MLOps/LLMOps.
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