Thomson Reuters is investing in AI as a core capability across Legal, Tax, Risk, News, and Corporates. We are seeking a senior Technology Leader to define and drive the technical direction for how enterprise AI systems—including multi‑agent architectures, fine‑tuned models, and retrieval‑augmented solutions—are designed, governed, and scaled across the platform organization, while ensuring product engineering teams can safely and efficiently consume these capabilities.
This role leads a global AI Platform Engineering organization responsible for delivering AI Engineering Services. Positioned within Platform Engineering, it operates in close partnership with AI Labs, Product Engineering, Information Security, Legal, and Procurement to establish production-grade AI platforms and standards.
You will serve as the technical authority across three integrated domains: Enterprise AI Engineering Services, AI‑Native Developer Enablement, and AI Platform Integration—ensuring cohesive, secure, and scalable adoption of AI capabilities across Thomson Reuters. This includes leading a diverse global team of 35+ engineers and driving engineering rigor, platform standardization, and responsible AI practices.
As Vice President, AI Platform Engineering, you will report to the Head of Platform Engineering and be a key member of a high-performing organization at the center of Thomson Reuters’ technology and AI strategy. You will own:
AI-Native Engineering and Developer Enablement
You will define what AI-native development means at Thomson Reuters: the agreed coding-agent stack, the prompt and evaluation standards, the CI/CD integrations, and the guardrails that make agent-assisted development safe inside the enterprise. You will govern the AI developer tooling estate (coding agents, prototyping tools, evaluation and observability platforms) and set patterns for MCP servers and developer-facing agents.
AI Platform and Tooling Integration
You will own the technical direction for the AI platform capabilities engineering teams across TR consume: model serving, evaluation infrastructure, RAG and retrieval infrastructure, fine-tuning workflows, prompt and observability tooling, and the integration of these capabilities with the existing platform estate (IDP, API management, observability, GitHub). You will partner with and align the Cloud Infrastructure agentic platform team to keep developer-facing and ops-facing AI strategies coherent.
Performance & Scalability
You will own the quality bar for security, scalability, and reliability of AI Platform Systems. Define and enforce observability and performance standards for AI-driven workloads operating at enterprise scale across millions of documents and interactions.
Collaboration & Leadership
You will lead and grow teams of AI engineers building the services and platforms that translate AI capabilities into real-world product applications. Foster a culture of experimentation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. Own hiring, performance, and mentorship across the organization.
Key responsibilities and impact
Location
This hybrid role can be based in any of the following hub locations: Eagan, MN; Frisco, TX or New York, NY.
You are a strong fit for the VP, AI Platform Engineering role if you possess the following skills and experience:
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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.
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 $228,000 USD - $424,000 USD.
For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $198,200 USD - $368,000 USD.

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.
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