Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI – Legal FDE

Thomson Reuters is looking for a recognized technical authority to set the direction for how the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments adopt AI. CoCounsel is trusted by over 20,000 law firms and corporate legal departments, including the majority of top US courts and Am Law 100 firms, and is used by one million professionals across 107 countries.

As the senior-most individual contributor on the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will define and drive the technology strategy and roadmap for designing, building, and operating bespoke AI solutions. You will own the team's most complex, highest-risk, and most strategically important engagements, working alongside Staff Software Engineers and Architects, Senior Legal AI Engineers, and AI Solution Engineers. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and business leadership to align FDE work with CoCounsel's long-term objectives.

What you'll do:

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision and strategy for FDE, including vision documents, technology requirements, and roadmaps tied to product and business objectives.
• Lead the selection, evaluation, and adoption of technologies, frameworks, and patterns, and build consensus across teams.
• Identify where emerging capabilities such as agentic systems, MCP and A2A interoperability, and new model and orchestration patterns could cause a transformational shift, and communicate the opportunities and trade-offs to senior leadership.
• Contribute to cross-functional and cross-business-unit engineering strategy, standards, and, where appropriate, patents.

Full details and application on the official Thomson Reuters careers page.