Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE). It pays $109k-$203k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Thomson Reuters.

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Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this forward deployed engineer role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
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Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

Job Description

Are you a legal professional with AI fluency and technology curiosity who wants to build AI-powered solutions that help legal professionals work smarter and deliver better outcomes? Join Thomson Reuters and help shape the future of legal technology on the Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering team.

As a Senior Legal Engineer, you will work directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and improve AI-powered workflows and tools for legal practice. You will combine deep legal expertise with AI and technology fluency to turn real-world customer needs into practical, high-impact legal AI solutions.

This is a hybrid role available in Frisco, TX; Toronto, ON; Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN; or New York, NY. Occasional travel to customer sites may be required.

Key Responsibilities

Design, prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered solutions tailored to complex legal workflows and practice areas.
Partner directly with legal customers to understand their needs, workflows, and challenges. Lead discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding, and enablement programs.
Build and iterate on AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools, applying sound practices for security and reliability.
Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, assessing outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and usability.
Design, iterate, and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
Develop evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, rubrics, and regression checks, to systematically assess AI output quality across legal workflows.
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 with customers and internal teams.
Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and continuously improve the customer experience.

Required Qualifications

JD 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 legal department, or in a legal technology product role.
Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
Comfort working with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
Advanced prompt-engineering skills, including the ability to design, test, iterate, and optimize prompts for legal-domain use cases.
Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both lawyers and engineers.
Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
Strong client-facing skills, with the ability to build trust with lawyers, GCs, and legal leadership.
Collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and a commitment to ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.

Preferred Qualifications

Python scripting experience.
Experience with legal technology platforms, legal SaaS products, or AI-enabled legal workflows.
Experience building or evaluating AI tools for specific legal practice areas (transactional, litigation, compliance, or intake).
Experience with Thomson Reuters legal products or comparable legal AI platforms.

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

What’s in it For You?

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
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. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
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. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

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. In addition, 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. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, 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.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $109,000 USD - $203,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $94,900 USD - $176,300 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $105,000 CAD - $155,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com

How we rate this

Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at Thomson Reuters rates 68 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is an open job at Thomson Reuters.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $109k-$203k a year.
The role is based in United States of America, Frisco, Texas.
The job was posted on October 26, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Thomson Reuters. Apply on Thomson Reuters

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