Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

19h•$94,900 - $203,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Thomson Reuters is seeking a legal professional with AI fluency and technology curiosity to help build AI-powered solutions for legal professionals. As a Senior Legal Engineer on the Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will work directly with legal customers and cross-functional partners to design, build, and improve AI-powered workflows and tools for legal practice. The role combines deep legal expertise with AI and technology fluency to turn customer needs into practical, high-impact legal AI solutions. This is a hybrid role available in Frisco, Texas; Toronto, Ontario; Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota; or New York, New York. Occasional travel to customer sites may be required. The posting may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies.

Requirements

JD or LLB degree (required or strongly preferred).
At least 5 years of total professional experience, including at least 2 years in legal practice at a law firm or in-house legal department, or in a legal technology product role.
Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
Comfort working with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
Advanced prompt-engineering skills, including designing, testing, iterating, and optimizing prompts for legal-domain use cases.
Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to engage credibly with lawyers and engineers.
Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
Strong client-facing skills and the ability to build trust with lawyers, GCs, and legal leadership.
Collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and commitment to ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

Python scripting experience.
Experience with legal technology platforms, legal SaaS products, or AI-enabled legal workflows.
Experience building or evaluating AI tools for specific legal practice areas, such as transactional, litigation, compliance, or intake.
Experience with Thomson Reuters legal products or comparable legal AI platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered solutions tailored to complex legal workflows and practice areas.
Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges; lead discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding, and enablement programs.
Build and iterate on AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools, applying sound security and reliability practices.
Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
Develop evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, rubrics, and regression checks, to assess AI output quality across legal workflows.
Train and enable legal teams on AI tool adoption, prompt best practices, and workflow integration.
Share legal AI expertise through documentation, playbooks, and knowledge sharing with customers and internal teams.
Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the customer experience.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles.
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Flexible vacation and supportive work-life policies.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off and access to the Headspace app.
Retirement savings and a competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing, including an Employee Assistance Program and fitness reimbursement.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
Paid holidays, sick and safe paid time off, parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance, optional life and AD&D insurance, and Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit, paid 100% by the employee.