Senior Software Engineer, Legal — CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, turning architectural direction into robust, production-ready systems that legal professionals can trust.

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.

What you'll do:

• Act as the connective interface between legal professionals — both customer-facing legal teams and internal legal subject matter experts — and the engineering team, anticipating and interpreting their needs, identifying and delivering solutions that leverage the right technologies, while…
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and AI engineers, breaking down customer requirements into work the team can execute, and continuously updating your knowledge of state-of-the-art development tools, AI techniques, and legal technology trends.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with legal users, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle — from system specifications through documentation and demonstration.
• Write clean, secure code to established specifications, managing technical debt and building scalable solutions through DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, and robust unit testing (TDD).
• Evaluate non-deterministic AI outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, and reliability, applying advanced legal prompt/loop engineering to optimize AI solution performance in partnership with legal and product teams.
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers through code reviews, advice, coaching, and training on modern technologies, including legal-domain AI applications, while leading routine projects using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

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