# Legal AI Engineer **Company**: Thomson Reuters **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $100,100 USD - $185,900 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/United-States-of-America-Eagan-Minnesota/Legal-AI-Engineer_JREQ204512?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2391ea60-180 ## Description As a Legal AI Engineer, you will help law firm customers transform how legal work gets done with Thomson Reuters Legal AI. Combining legal-practice experience, product expertise, and a practical understanding of AI, you will identify high-value legal workflows, design and test AI-enabled solutions, and help customers move successful use cases into sustained adoption. You will work closely with Practice Innovation Advisors, Forward Deployed Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to address complex customer needs and explore solutions involving advanced configuration, integrations, and custom development. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead in-person discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, workflow workshops, and executive briefings with law firm customers to identify priority legal workflows and show how Thomson Reuters Legal AI can address them. - Support customers throughout the lifecycle by scoping Legal AI use cases, advising on workflow and solution design, and demonstrating legal AI capabilities. - Work with Customer Success, Forward Deployed Engineering, and other cross-functional partners to develop and execute Legal AI strategies for a focused portfolio of signature law firm customers. - Partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering to translate complex legal workflows and customer requirements into solution designs, prototypes, integrations, or other technically enabled approaches. - Design, test, and refine advanced Legal AI workflows, including solutions that may combine Thomson Reuters products, customer systems, partner technologies, integrations, or custom development. - Apply a strong understanding of the legal technology ecosystem to determine when customer needs are best addressed through Thomson Reuters products, a partner solution, an integration, or custom development, and help orchestrate the right approach. - Document solution patterns, technical requirements, implementation considerations, and lessons learned so that successful approaches can be reused across future customer engagements. - Support customer advocacy by communicating customer needs to Customer Success and our cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, and Marketing, and highlighting opportunities to improve and innovate our legal AI products. - Contribute to Thomson Reuters’ thought leadership by sharing expertise with customers and the broader market through events, advisory boards, or customer-facing content. - Be an effective advocate for Thomson Reuters products. **Travel:** This role requires regular travel (approximately 25-30%, varying by quarter) to customer and firm sites to support client engagements, demonstrations, and team initiatives. **Required Qualifications:** - J.D. from an accredited US law school required. - Prior experience practicing law required (e.g., in a law firm, in-house legal department, government, clerkship, or comparable legal practice setting). - Proven experience in customer- or client-facing roles, ideally engaging with Enterprise or complex accounts. - Familiarity with legal workflows and processes such as due diligence, eDiscovery, large document review, compliance, or related domains , gained through direct practice, adjacent roles, or working with legal professionals. - Demonstrable experience with generative artificial intelligence applications. - Substantial experience using a variety of online legal research and practice tools (e.g. Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Relativity, Everlaw, etc.). - Demonstrated ability to learn and work hands-on with AI tools, workflow technologies, and technically complex solutions. - Experience with workflow automation, APIs, integrations, technical prototyping, data analysis, Python, or another form of exploratory coding is strongly preferred. - Experience collaborating with software engineers, solution engineers, implementation teams, or other technical specialists is preferred. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Bring experience in customer-facing roles, ideally working with Enterprise accounts. - Understand the architecture and operation of large language models (LLMs) and can apply that understanding to the hands-on design, testing, and refinement of legal AI solutions. - Are comfortable working at the intersection of legal practice and technology, translating ambiguous legal and business needs into structured requirements and testable solutions. - Can collaborate effectively with engineering and technical delivery teams, including communicating customer requirements, evaluating solution options, testing outputs, and documenting implementation considerations. - Bring experience or demonstrated aptitude in one or more technically oriented areas, such as workflow automation, system integrations, APIs, data structures, prompt and context design, technical prototyping, or exploratory coding. - Approach challenges constructively, framing Thomson Reuters solutions positively and accurately. - Are knowledgeable in due diligence, eDiscovery, managing large document sets, data rooms, and related workflows where AI can accelerate results. - Excel at communicating technical concepts and creating clear, high-quality documentation and learning materials, and can craft persuasive presentations that resonate with non-technical and often skeptical customers by focusing on their needs and outcomes rather than just product features. - Thrive on working directly with motivated customers to solve complex problems, including through in-person, on-site engagements. - Bring creativity, curiosity, and a growth mindset to problem-solving, with the ability to simplify ambiguous challenges and turn them into opportunities. - Stay up-to-date with emerging AI research and industry trends, and think critically about risks, opportunities, and societal impact. - Embrace innovation and experimentation,you view setbacks as opportunities to learn, iterate, and improve outcomes. **What's in it For You?** - **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. - **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. ## Skills ### Required - J.D. - legal practice experience - customer-facing experience - generative artificial intelligence - online legal research and practice tools - AI tools - workflow technologies - technical prototyping - data analysis - Python ### Nice to have - Enterprise accounts experience - large language models - technical delivery teams - workflow automation - system integrations - APIs - data structures - prompt and context design - exploratory coding --- Source: [Apply at thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/United-States-of-America-Eagan-Minnesota/Legal-AI-Engineer_JREQ204512?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)