Senior Software Engineer, AI

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Job Summary:

Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop AI-driven solutions for legal professionals, focusing on backend services and user interfaces to enhance their flagship product, Westlaw.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.

• Implement AI orchestration systems integrating LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers.

• Design APIs and backend logic for real-time AI interactions.

• Help to build our content services to automate many different AI driven workflows across the legal professional domain

• Ensure backend systems are secure, scalable, and optimized for AI-driven applications.

• Monitor and enhance system performance, across millions of documents and AI driven interactions

• Work closely with AI researchers, engineers, and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications.

• Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies.

• Work closely with AI researchers, engineers, and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications.

• Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Related Field, or Equivalent Experience.

• 5 years of hands-on software development experience in backend development, building scalable web services, and APIs.

• 3 years of hands-on Python development with experience in FastAPI (Other API Tools Acceptable) and PostgreSQL (Other SQL Tools Acceptable).

• Expertise in AWS cloud services (Redis, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, KMS, IAM, Secret Manager, etc) or similar cloud services.

• Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tooling.

• Strong Data Engineering background and experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch.

• Experience implementing modern DevOps best practices in production environments (CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS services (Code Pipeline/Code Build)

• Experience with LLMs, AI Solutions, and evaluation and understanding of agentic systems and workflow.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

• A pragmatic and curious mindset that drives you to find elegant solutions to complex problems.

• Strong communication skills that enable you to articulate technical concepts to diverse audience.

• Experience in using AI-powered tools in SDLC is required.

Company:

Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Thomson Reuters has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.