# Senior Software Engineer (Legal), CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: United States of America, Frisco, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $117,700 USD - $218,600 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer (Legal), you will work directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and improve sophisticated software and AI solutions for legal workflows. You will combine strong engineering fundamentals with legal fluency to translate real-world customer needs into secure, scalable, high-quality products.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end software solutions for complex legal workflows and AI-enabled products.

- Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges, translating requirements into scalable technical solutions.

- Architect and build modern cloud-native systems using distributed services, microservices, APIs, containerization, and orchestration technologies.

- Develop production-grade Python software while applying strong engineering practices for security, testing, reliability, and maintainability.

- Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, including assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.

- Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.

- Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices to support secure, reliable, and automated deployments.

- Manage technical debt effectively while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability and system health.

- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

- Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the software development lifecycle.

**Required Qualifications:**

- A JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.

- Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade software.

- Experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.

- Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.

- Advanced prompt-engineering skills, including the ability to design, test, iterate, and optimize prompts for legal-domain use cases.

- Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both lawyers and engineers.

- Comfort working independently, navigating ambiguity, and presenting in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.

- A collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to secure engineering, ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

**Benefits:**

- 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

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- software engineering
- legal terminology
- AI
- LLM
- cloud-native systems
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code

### Nice to have
- Python scripting
- legal technology platforms
- AI-enabled legal workflows
- Thomson Reuters legal products

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