# Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI)

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Mexico City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer) to join the CoCounsel team. The team takes early Labs concepts and turns them into scalable, production-ready features. You will be responsible for technical direction and delivery of our market-leading Litigation Drafting products in CoCounsel Legal.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Build and architect AI Agentic driven systems – You will be working with the Engineering Manager to facilitate our full stack team in delivering groundbreaking Agentic Legal software.

- Drive innovation and technical strategy – Lead evaluation and adoption of cutting-edge AI techniques; oversee proof-of-concept work and technical feasibility for new AI-driven features.

- Provide senior technical leadership – Lead architecture decisions and translate business requirements into scalable technical specifications; mentor senior and junior software engineers.

- Ensure quality, security, and operational excellence – Design and implement testing, monitoring, and observability for AI systems at scale.

**Required Qualifications:**

- 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.

- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS or Azure cloud services.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and information retrieval.

**What’s in it For You?:**

- Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Supportive workplace policies.

- Career Development and Growth: Culture of continuous learning and skill development.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Azure
- cloud services
- distributed systems
- architecture
- data modelling

### Nice to have
- vector databases
- embeddings
- semantic search
- information retrieval
- AG-UI protocol
- SSE events
- Datadog
- CloudWatch Log Insights
- Braintrust

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