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Thomson Reuters · 17 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI I

Ann Arbor, MI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$127K/yr - $237K/yr

7+ years exp

Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing trusted content and technology for professionals across various sectors. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for architecting and implementing complex AI systems that enhance tax and accounting workflows through automation and intelligence, while also ensuring system quality and compliance.

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Responsibilities

Architect and implement complex AI systems, including multi-component pipelines, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and custom AI agents that power next-generation legal solutions

Ensure system quality and compliance by implementing comprehensive testing frameworks, monitoring tools, and ethical AI practices that maintain the highest standards of reliability and trustworthiness

Proactively identify issues and risks, make data-driven recommendations, and take corrective action to optimize system performance and mitigate potential challenges

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, UX, and Science to align AI features with product goals and translate functional requirements into robust technical specifications

Conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs) to evaluate emerging technologies and explore the feasibility of AI solutions for innovative use cases

Analyze existing systems and recommend improvements to enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and overall system architecture

Leadership - Mentor and guide AI engineers, fostering technical growth and career development

Qualification

AI/ML experiencePythonAI/ML frameworksSystem architectureAWS experienceCross-functional collaborationMentoringProblem-solving

Required

7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on AI/ML

Proficiency in Python, with experience building web applications, distributed systems, and APIs

Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow

Strong understanding of AI/ML systems, including RAG architectures, AI agents, and agent-based/AI-driven systems; experience with AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic

Experience integrating AI models into production systems using APIs and data pipelines; knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and search-based AI

Strong understanding of machine learning principles, model evaluation, system design, and MLOps across the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered applications

Proven cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and data scientists and passion for exploring new technologies and engineering paradigms

Preferred

2–4 years of AWS experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable cloud services (e.g., Lambda, S3, EC2 and related tools)

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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.

Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.

Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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; and 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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