AI Solutions Engineer, Agents

AI Solutions Engineer, Agents

Are you excited about working at the forefront of applied research in an industry setting? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking research engineers with a passion for solving problems using state-of-the-art information retrieval, natural language processing and generative AI.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a AI Solutions Engineer - Agents, 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 - Agents role if your background includes:

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science/Data Science/Machine Learning or a Bachelor’s with equivalent experience.
• Basic familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models.
• Prior experience exploring and testing language model behavior.
• A portfolio demonstrating creativity and aptitude for 0-1 concept development.
• Strong desire to work closely with subject matter experts on real world use cases.
• Active interest in emerging research and industry trends around AI software development.
• Proficiency in python and relevant AI development tools.
• A mindset for good experiment design and evaluation.
• Excellent communication, organization, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs.
• Prior exposure to NLP tasks like Named Entity Recognition (NER), Information Retrieval, Document Summarization and/or Question Answering.
• Demonstrated experience building software applications with machine learning models.

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.

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.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus.

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role).

Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually.

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.

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.