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

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Legal Engineer for its Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering team. The role combines legal expertise with AI and technology fluency to design, build, and improve AI-powered workflows and tools for legal practice. The engineer works directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams to turn customer needs into practical legal AI solutions, and supports customer discovery, pilots, onboarding, enablement, and ongoing workflow improvement. 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 is for proactive recruitment and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies. The role may be eligible for an annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance. Base compensation varies by location: $109,000–$203,000 USD for specified high-cost locations; $94,900–$176,300 USD for other eligible U.S. locations; and $105,000–$155,000 CAD for Ontario. Compensation placement within the range depends on knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.

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, with 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 ability to build trust with lawyers, general counsel, 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 work, litigation, compliance, or intake.
Experience with Thomson Reuters legal products or comparable legal AI platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered solutions for 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 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 improve the customer experience.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Flexible vacation and paid time off, including sick and safe time and paid holidays.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off annually.
Access to the Headspace app and Employee Assistance Program.
Retirement savings plan and 401(k) plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
Parental leave and sabbatical leave.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Fitness reimbursement.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Two paid volunteer days off annually.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.