# Senior Software Engineer (Legal)

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $109,000 USD - $203,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) on our CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and deploy bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments, turning architectural direction into robust, production-ready systems that legal professionals can trust.

Responsibilities:

- Act as the connective interface between legal professionals and the engineering team, anticipating and interpreting their needs, identifying and delivering solutions that leverage the right technologies.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and AI engineers, breaking down customer requirements into work the team can execute.

- Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with legal users, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.

- Write clean, secure code to established specifications, managing technical debt and building scalable solutions through DevOps practices.

- Evaluate non-deterministic AI outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, and reliability.

- Mentor and guide junior software engineers through code reviews, advice, coaching, and training on modern technologies.

- Deliver end-to-end technical solutions for multiple products or complex projects for legal clients.

Requirements:

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

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with proficiency in Python.

- Strong understanding of AI/LLM evaluation methodologies, along with strong prompt engineering skills.

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

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- AI/LLM evaluation methodologies
- prompt engineering
- legal terminology
- software development lifecycle
- DevOps practices

### Nice to have
- legal platforms or SaaS solutions

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