Senior Software Engineer AI

Senior Software Engineer AI (Westlaw AI)

Location: Irving, TX

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About the Role

Build AI-driven software that transforms how professionals work. Join a dynamic and highly skilled team 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.

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.
  

About You
Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelors 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.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
  

Whats in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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 tomorrows 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?bo n?to 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.

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug?free workplace. Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.

Seniority level

Mid?Senior level

Employment type

Full?time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Financial Services, Legal Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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