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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
Thomson Reuters is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, AI Product Engineering to help shape and build the next generation of AI-powered software for tax and accounting professionals. You will join the CoCounsel for Tax & Accounting organization, working in a fast-moving, product-focused environment that combines startup-style ownership with the scale and resources of Thomson Reuters.
This is a highly hands-on Staff-level engineering role for someone who thrives in greenfield and 0→1 product development. You will be expected to take ambiguous product and technical problems, define the right architecture, build critical parts of the solution yourself, and help guide other engineers from prototype through production.
This is a hybrid role, with opportunities based in New York City, Minneapolis–St. Paul, or Toronto. Candidates should be comfortable working onsite as part of the team’s hybrid schedule. Final interviews may also be conducted onsite at the hiring hub associated with the candidate’s location.
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Product Engineering, you will:
Own greenfield and 0→1 AI systems, taking ambiguous product problems from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, production launch, monitoring, and iteration.
Design and build production backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Build and evolve AI-native applications incorporating large language models, AI agents, orchestration, retrieval, tool/function calling, and real-time AI workflows.
Integrate models and services from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and other foundation-model platforms.
Design scalable APIs, data models, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services for high-volume, production-grade AI applications.
Make and influence architectural decisions across reliability, scalability, latency, observability, security, testing, failure handling, and maintainability.
Establish reusable engineering patterns and technical standards that improve consistency and velocity across multiple teams or workstreams.
Evaluate AI behavior in production and build mechanisms for quality measurement, experimentation, evaluation, guardrails, and continuous improvement.
Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex customer problems into simple, scalable technical solutions.
Provide technical leadership across complex, cross-functional initiatives while remaining hands-on in design, implementation, debugging, and code review.
Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and help teams make sound architectural and engineering trade-offs.
Identify technical risks early and drive solutions across multiple systems or teams.
About You
You are a strong fit for this role if you have:
Significant software engineering experience building and operating large-scale, production-grade backend systems.
Strong, recent hands-on development experience with Python.
Production experience with backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django, with FastAPI strongly preferred.
Experience designing APIs, backend services, data models, asynchronous systems, and distributed architectures.
Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and building production systems on a major cloud platform; AWS experience is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience personally designing, building, and launching greenfield or 0→1 products and systems, with clear ownership from architecture through production.
Experience making architecture decisions that affect multiple systems, teams, or major product capabilities.
Strong system-design skills with the ability to reason through scalability, reliability, performance, failure modes, and operational trade-offs.
Experience taking software through the full lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, deployment, observability, debugging, incident response, and production iteration.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.
Strong communication skills and experience partnering effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, AI/ML, and other technical stakeholders.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and turn incomplete requirements into clear technical direction.
Hands-on production experience building generative AI or AI-native applications is strongly preferred.
Experience with LLM-powered agents, agent orchestration, tool/function calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, retrieval systems, or real-time AI interactions is preferred.
Experience integrating commercial or open foundation models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar providers, is preferred.
Experience building customer-facing SaaS or product software in a startup, scale-up, or similarly high-ownership environment is preferred.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and modern cloud-native engineering is preferred.
Exposure to TypeScript or modern frontend frameworks is helpful but not required.
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?
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 $146,800 USD - $272,600 USD.
For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $127,400 USD - $236,600 USD.
For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $175,000 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.
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