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Thomson Reuters · 2 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI I

Eagan, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$147K/yr - $273K/yr

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI to lead the design and delivery of AI-powered applications. In this role, you will architect and build .NET services and APIs, implement RAG pipelines, and mentor engineers across teams.

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Responsibilities

Architect and build .NET services and APIs integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services

Design and implement RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search for hybrid retrieval and grounding

Build agentic workflows with tool/function calling, planning, memory, and safe execution boundaries

Develop Semantic Kernel plugins/skills; configure planners, connectors, and memory stores

Implement observability for AI systems (cost, latency, token usage, quality metrics; App Insights/OpenTelemetry)

Partner with product, security, and data teams to align solutions with compliance and business outcomes

Mentor engineers; lead design reviews, write RFCs, and drive engineering excellence

Qualification

.NET 7/8/9Azure AI ServicesRAGSemantic KernelC#ASP.NET CoreInfrastructureSecurity & ComplianceTesting & QualityMentoringCollaboration

Required

C#/.NET 7/8/9: Advanced async, streaming, DI, clean architecture, performance tuning

ASP.NET Core: REST APIs, authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT), caching, resiliency

Azure AI Services: Azure OpenAI: GPT models, embeddings, function calling, streaming responses, cost optimization

Azure AI Search: Indexing, hybrid search (BM25 + vectors), skillsets, enrichers, re-ranking

Azure AI Foundry: Prompt flow orchestration, evaluation pipelines

RAG: Chunking strategies, metadata enrichment, hybrid retrieval, citation fidelity

Agentic AI: Multi-tool orchestration, planners, memory, error recovery, guardrails

Semantic Kernel (C#): Kernels, semantic/native skills, connectors, planners, memory stores

Infrastructure: RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

Security & Compliance: PII handling, data residency, auditability, threat modeling basics

Testing & Quality: Unit/integration/contract tests, load tests, CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub)

Preferred

Azure Cognitive Services: Document Intelligence, Speech, Vision for multimodal AI

Azure AI Search advanced: Custom scoring profiles, multi-source ingestion (SharePoint, Blob)

Observability for AI quality: hallucination detection, RAG evaluation (RAGAS/rubrics)

Front-end integration: Blazor/Angular for streaming UX

Knowledge graphs: Neo4j/RDF for advanced retrieval

Benefits

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.

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.

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. 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.

Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs

Competitive 401k plan with company match

Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave

Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee

Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee

Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts

Fitness reimbursement

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee

Access to 529 Plan

Commuter benefits

Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance

Tuition Reimbursement

Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Company

Thomson Reuters

Glassdoor3.0

Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.

Founded in 2008

Toronto, Ontario, CAN

10001+ employees

http://thomsonreuters.com

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