Senior Software Engineer – AI (Westlaw AI)

Thomson Reuters • Frisco, TX

45d • Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Software Engineer, AI - Westlaw AI Are you passionate about building AI-driven software that transforms how professionals work? Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters, where we invest deeply in AI technologies and explore emerging fields with the backing of a global brand. As a Senior Software Engineer – AI, you will play a key role in developing intelligent systems that power the next generation of expert solutions across legal, tax, risk, and compliance domains. About the Role: As a Senior Software Engineer – AI, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, and engineers to design, build, and deliver AI-powered solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering; at least 2 years focused on AI/ML.
• Strong foundation and experience with AI/ML model development.
• Sound understanding of machine learning principles, evaluation, and system design.
• Experience with integrating models into end-to-end production-grade applications.
• Experience integrating AI models into production systems and APIs at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python and related frameworks for building AI-powered systems.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with LLM-driven systems, agent-based architectures, or AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.
• Domain knowledge in legal, tax, or compliance systems.
• A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-Driven Systems: Architect and implement advanced AI systems, including multi-component pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and custom AI agents with multi-step reasoning.
• Integrate AI models into production software through robust APIs and scalable data pipelines.
• Adapt AI models and techniques to specialized domains, tailoring solutions for expert systems in areas such as legal, tax, and compliance.
• Innovate: Evaluate and prototype cutting-edge AI techniques to solve business challenges.
• Conduct proof-of-concept projects for new AI-driven features.
• Stay current with AI research and emerging technologies.
• Provide Technical Leadership: Break down ambiguous requirements into scalable technical specifications.
• Mentor junior engineers and facilitate technical discussions.
• Contribute to ML blogs and LLMOps practices within the team.
• Present thought leadership at internal and external forums representing the organization in emerging technology areas.
• Ensure Quality & Operations: Implement comprehensive testing frameworks and monitoring systems for AI model performance.
• Ensure strong data governance, bias analysis, and security standards.
• Conduct scalability analysis and recommend operational improvements.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI researchers, designers, and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications.
• Optimize AI system performance considering factors like latency and resource usage.
• Drive collaboration to feature enhancements through AI capabilities.

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. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
• In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers 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. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level