# Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI)

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127,400 USD - $236,600 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thomson Reuters products power professionals shaping the world across legal, tax, accounting, and audit. As a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI) on Cloud Audit Suite, you will own backend and AI orchestration systems that transform frontier models into reliable, production-grade workflows at scale.

**About the Role**

- As a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer), you will be responsible for the architecture and technical direction of Audit Suite.

- Define AI engineering patterns for MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM integration, experimentation, and scalable infrastructure.

- Build systems operating across millions of documents, structured financial data, evolving regulations, and thousands of concurrent AI interactions.

- Lead across engineering, product, UX, and AI teams to rapidly design and deliver customer-facing solutions.

- Set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and stay hands-on in architecture and code.

- Drive platform integration strategy across Thomson Reuters audit systems.

**Technical Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence**

- Lead strategic initiatives spanning AI, platform, and infrastructure.

- Mentor engineers and elevate system design, code quality, and AI engineering practices.

- Partner with AI/ML teams, researchers, designers, and product managers to convert emerging AI capabilities into trusted customer solutions.

- Influence roadmap, technical strategy, experimentation, testing, rollout practices, and operational excellence.

**Design & Own AI-First Backend Systems**

- Architect and build backend services using C#/.NET, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Vercel that power AI-driven workflows and document-centric experiences.

- Develop AI orchestration capabilities including MCP servers, tool calling, workflow routing, guardrails, reliability, and LLM integrations.

- Design high-throughput, low-latency AI systems using caching, queuing, rate limiting, failover, and cost optimization strategies.

- Build retrieval and search systems leveraging large document collections, vector databases, and indexing technologies.

- Establish observability, SLOs, and incident management practices for auditable and trustworthy AI systems.

**About You**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.

- Proven track record of shipping production-grade AI systems to customers, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership in enterprise environments.

- Full Stack experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React or Angular.

- Strong distributed systems expertise, including APIs, data modeling, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

- Proven success leading complex projects from architecture through long-term operation.

- Deep interest in AI-native software, including LLMs, agents, retrieval, and modern AI development patterns.

**Benefits**

- Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: supportive workplace policies

- Career Development and Growth: continuous learning and skill development

- Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans

- Culture: award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance

- Social Impact: opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- C#/.NET
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Vercel
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- Distributed Systems
- APIs
- Data Modeling
- Observability
- Resiliency
- Performance Optimization
- LLMs
- Agents
- Retrieval
- Modern AI Development Patterns

### Nice to have
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Vector Databases
- Embeddings
- Semantic Search
- Retrieval Systems
- ASP.NET Core
- PostgreSQL/SQL Server
- Cloud Platforms

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