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AI Solutions Engineer, Legal Specialist

Are you passionate about building innovative AI solutions at the intersection of law and technology? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Solutions Engineer with expertise in AI and machine learning, complemented by strong legal knowledge or experience. This role is ideal for someone with a background in computer science and legal expertise, such as a JD, or vice versa.
As a member of Thomson Reuters Labs, you’ll help transform legal research, compliance, and document review through cutting-edge AI solutions. You’ll leverage state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) and advanced prompt engineering techniques to develop tools that empower legal professionals, reduce workload, and enhance the accuracy of legal AI systems.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research and the development of new products and technologies. TR Labs innovates collaboratively across our core segments in Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News. As a Research Engineer at Thomson Reuters Labs, you will be part of a global interdisciplinary team of experts. We hire engineers and specialists across a variety of AI research areas to drive the company’s digital transformation. The science and engineering of AI are rapidly evolving. We are looking for an adaptable learner who can think in code and likes to learn and develop new skills as they are needed; someone comfortable with jumping into new problem spaces; who enjoys directing and supporting the efforts of others. Is this you? Come join us!


About the Role:
In this opportunity as a AI Solutions Engineer you will:

• Develop and Deliver: Apply modern software development practices to build, test, and deliver high-quality AI and ML-driven solutions for the legal domain.
• Build Scalable ML Solutions: Develop large-scale data processing pipelines that support innovative legal AI capabilities, including natural language processing, document summarization, and case law analysis.
• Legal Prompt Engineering: Design, test, and optimize prompts for AI assistants to ensure high-quality, accurate responses to legal queries. Work with interdisciplinary teams to refine these systems and integrate them into workflows.
• Leverage Legal Expertise: Collaborate with legal professionals to identify opportunities where AI can address specific challenges, from contract analysis to jurisdiction-specific case predictions.
• Be a Team Player: Work closely with technical, legal, and product teams to build impactful AI solutions tailored to legal users' needs.
• Innovate Responsibly: Ensure AI systems align with ethical and legal standards, incorporating safeguards to address issues like data confidentiality and AI bias.
• Be an Agile Innovator: Adapt to a fast-paced environment, taking ownership of solutions from conception to deployment, and iteratively refining approaches based on results.

About You:
You are a fit for this AI Solutions Engineer role if your background includes:

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or a Juris Doctor (JD) degree.
• At least 2-3 years of experience in software engineering or legal technology development, ideally involving machine learning (ML).
• Proficiency in Python and experience with software development best practices, emphasizing maintainability and testing.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and optimization techniques, particularly for legal applications.
• A strong interest in real-world legal applications and the ability to translate legal workflows into AI solutions.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, cloud computing, and scalable systems development.
• A commitment to ethical AI usage, understanding confidentiality concerns, and crafting robust safeguards.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on legal AI systems, such as those for contract analysis, compliance, or legal research.
• Exposure to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks like Named Entity Recognition (NER), Information Retrieval, and Document Summarization.
• Understanding of legal-specific datasets, standards, and challenges.
• Experience in designing systems that support iterative prompt engineering and testing for performance improvement.
• A proven knack for mastering new skills, especially at the intersection of engineering and legal workflows.

Why Join Thomson Reuters Labs?
At Thomson Reuters Labs, we innovate collaboratively across Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News. If you’re passionate about leveraging AI to transform the legal industry and have a unique blend of technical and legal expertise, we’d love to hear from you.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• 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. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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