Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products FDE

About the role

Thomson Reuters is looking for a Senior Legal Engineer on its Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. You will combine deep legal expertise with AI and technology fluency to design, build and improve AI-powered workflows and tools for legal practice, working directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams. The role is hybrid and open to Frisco, TX; Toronto, ON; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN; or New York, NY, with occasional travel to customer sites.

Key responsibilities

• Design, prototype, test and deploy AI-powered solutions for complex legal workflows and practice areas.
• Work with legal customers on discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding and enablement programs.
• Build and iterate AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools, with attention to security and reliability.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, checking accuracy, relevance, reliability and usability.
• Design and optimize advanced prompting strategies for legal-domain tasks.
• Build evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, rubrics and regression checks.
• Train and enable legal teams on AI tool adoption, prompt best practices and workflow integration.
• Share legal AI expertise through documentation, playbooks and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal and design partners to prioritize work and manage delivery commitments.

Required profile

• J.D. or LLB (required or strongly preferred).
• 5+ years of total professional experience, including at least 2 years in legal practice at a law firm or in-house department, or in a legal technology product role.
• Fluency in legal terminology and direct experience with legal teams.
• Comfort with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
• Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to engage lawyers, GCs and legal leadership and to work independently in client workshops.

Required skills

• Advanced prompt engineering for legal use cases.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability and safety.
• Preferred: Python scripting, legal technology platforms or SaaS, and experience with Thomson Reuters legal products or comparable legal AI platforms.

What we offer

• Flexible hybrid work model and Flex My Way policies, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career development through Grow My Way programming.
• Benefits including flexible vacation, mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement and a 401k plan with company match (US).
• Social Impact Institute with two paid volunteer days off annually.