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Thomson Reuters · 1 hour ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI I

Eagan, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$127K/yr - $237K/yr

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI to lead the design and delivery of AI-powered applications. The role involves architecting and building .NET services, implementing AI pipelines, and mentoring engineers across teams to ensure high-quality solutions.

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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 ServicesRAGAgentic AISemantic KernelInfrastructureSecurity & ComplianceTesting & QualityC#ASP.NET CoreAzure Cognitive ServicesKnowledge graphs

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

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Industry Competitive Benefits

Culture

Social Impact

Making a Real-World Impact

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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