Senior Software Engineer - AI I

Thomson Reuters•Eagan, NY

16h•$110,000 - $235,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join us to build the next generation of AI‑powered .NET systems. You’ll architect high‑performance services, design retrieval and agentic workflows, and bring Azure OpenAI capabilities to life in real‑world applications. If you’re excited about applied AI, clean engineering, and building production systems end‑to‑end, this role is for you. Build and own .NET services and REST APIs integrated with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services. Design RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search (hybrid retrieval, chunking strategies, grounding, citations). Create agentic workflows using tool/function calling, planning, memory, and guardrails for safe execution. Develop Semantic Kernel skills, connectors, and planners to orchestrate intelligent behavior. Implement robust observability across latency, cost, token usage, quality metrics (App Insights/OpenTelemetry). Collaborate with product, security, and data partners to ensure compliant and impactful solutions. Lead through engineering excellence—mentoring teammates, writing RFCs, and guiding architecture decisions.

Requirements

Minimum 3+ years of progressional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production backend systems and APIs.
2+ years of hands‑on experience building or integrating AI‑powered systems in production, including LLMs, retrieval systems, or agentic workflows.
Azure OpenAI (GPT, embeddings, function calling, streaming, cost control), Azure AI Search (indexing, hybrid search, skillsets, re‑ranking), Azure AI Studio (prompt flows, eval pipelines)
Azure Infrastructure: App Service, Functions, AKS, Container Apps, API Management, Key Vault
RAG Engineering: chunking, metadata enrichment, hybrid retrieval, citation accuracy.
Agentic AI: tools, planners, memory management, guardrails.
C# / .NET 7/8: async streams, DI, clean architecture, performance tuning.
ASP.NET Core: API design, OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, caching, resiliency patterns.
Semantic Kernel (C#): skills, connectors, planners, memory stores.
Azure Infrastructure: App Service, Functions, AKS/Container Apps, API Management, Key Vault.
Security & Quality: PII handling, auditing, testing (unit/integration/contract), CI/CD.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge graphs (Neo4j/RDF)
Azure Cognitive Services (Document Intelligence, Speech, Vision)
Advanced Azure Search (custom scoring, multi‑source ingestion)
AI quality evaluation (hallucination detection, RAGAS)
Front-end integration (React/Blazor streaming UX)

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match
market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan