# Lead AI Engineer

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127,400 USD - $236,600 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to set technical direction across our agent platform team's highest-priority initiatives. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, architect and build production AI agent systems, and advance how the team deploys and operates AI agents in production.

Responsibilities:

- Set technical architecture and direction across the team's highest-priority initiatives

- Provide hands-on technical leadership wherever it matters most

- Architect and build production AI agent systems on top of modern LLM APIs, agent SDKs, and orchestration/runtime infrastructure

- Design agent observability and evaluation practices

- Advance how the team deploys and operates AI agents in production

- Drive cross-cutting design reviews and technical decisions

- Mentor and raise the technical bar for a senior engineering team

- Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into concrete system architecture and sequencing decisions

Requirements:

- Extensive experience architecting and shipping production software systems

- Direct experience building with modern LLM APIs, agent frameworks/SDKs, or agent-to-tool integration protocols

- A track record of setting technical direction across multiple concurrent initiatives

- Strong backend engineering fundamentals

- Experience designing for production reliability and observability

- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical culture and practices

Benefits:

- Hybrid work model

- Flexibility and work-life balance

- Career development and growth

- Industry-competitive benefits

- Culture of inclusion and belonging

- Social impact initiatives

Salary Range: $127,400 USD - $236,600 USD (for eligible US locations)

## Skills

### Required
- LLM APIs
- agent frameworks/SDKs
- backend engineering
- production reliability
- observability

### Nice to have
- legal
- regulated
- professional-services

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