Senior Legal AI Engineer

Thomson Reuters is looking for a Senior Legal AI Engineer to lead pre-sales engagements of Thomson Reuters Legal AI solutions within strategic mid-size law firm accounts.

You will combine deep legal practice experience with a practical understanding of AI to design customized, in-depth use cases by practice area, and showcase to prospective firms how AI deployment will deliver measurable return on investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and qualification with law firm prospects, including in-person discovery sessions, workflow workshops, and executive briefings, to identify high-value legal workflows and the business outcomes that matter most to each firm
• Design customized AI use cases by practice area (e.g., litigation, transactional, regulatory, employment, IP) that reflect how each practice actually works, and translate them into specific, testable solution proposals
• Build quantifiable ROI cases by establishing baseline metrics with the firm, modeling time savings, capacity gains, realization and write-off impact, and risk reduction, and presenting those findings in terms that partners and finance leaders will accept
• Run solution demonstrations and proofs of concept that show Thomson Reuters Legal AI solving the firm’s real work, using the firm’s own documents and workflows where appropriate
• Partner with Sales and Account Executives to shape deal strategy, identify stakeholders and decision-makers, anticipate objections, and co-develop proposals, pricing rationale, and executive presentations
• Work with Forward Deployed Engineering to translate complex requirements into solution designs, prototypes, and integrations, and to confirm feasibility before commitments are made
• Determine the right solution path for each prospect, whether a Thomson Reuters product, a partner technology, a customer system integration, or custom development, and be candid about fit and limitations
• Document solution patterns, ROI frameworks, and lessons learned so that successful approaches can be reused across practice areas and future deals
• Serve as the voice of the prospect internally by communicating market needs and objections to Product, Engineering, and Marketing, and by identifying opportunities to improve Legal AI offerings
• Contribute to thought leadership through firm-facing content, webinars, advisory boards, and industry events
• Stay current on generative AI capabilities, legal technology trends, and the competitive landscape, and be able to position Thomson Reuters products accurately and persuasively against alternatives.

Required Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school
• Prior experience practicing law, such as in a law firm, in-house legal department, government, clerkship, or comparable legal setting
• Proven experience in senior, customer-facing or sales-adjacent roles, ideally with large or mid-size law firms or other complex enterprise accounts
• Strong familiarity with legal workflows such as due diligence, eDiscovery, large document review, compliance, and litigation or transactional practice
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with generative AI applications
• Substantial experience with online legal research and practice tools (e.g., Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Relativity, Everlaw)
• Track record of building business cases, ROI analyses, or value assessments, or equivalent experience in a consultative selling environment
• Ability to present confidently to senior partners and executives and to handle technical and commercial objections
• Willingness to travel approximately 25–30% (varying by quarter) to firm sites and customer engagements. Travel is a condition of employment.

Benefits

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities
• 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
• 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
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency