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

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.
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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.
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