# Senior Legal AI Engineer **Company**: Thomson Reuters **Location**: United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $255,500 USD - $474,500 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--Strategic-Accounts---Mid-Law_JREQ205322?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/senior-legal-ai-engineer-a93e38fa-dbc/ ## Description 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 For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - J.D. - legal practice experience - generative AI applications - online legal research and practice tools - business case building - ROI analyses ### Nice to have - legal technology sales - pre-sales - solutions consulting - innovation roles - large language models - workflow automation - APIs - integrations - data analysis - 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--Strategic-Accounts---Mid-Law_JREQ205322?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)