Legal AI Engineer

Overview

This role involves working as a Legal AI Engineer, helping law firm customers transform how legal work gets done. You will identify high-value legal workflows, design and test AI-enabled solutions, and support customers in moving successful use cases into sustained adoption.

You will partner closely with Practice Innovation Advisors, Forward Deployed Engineers, Customer Success, and other cross-functional teams to address complex customer needs. Work may include advanced configuration, integrations, and custom development.

Responsibilities

• Lead in-person discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, workflow workshops, and executive briefings with law firm customers to identify priority legal workflows and demonstrate how legal AI capabilities can address them.
• Support customers throughout the lifecycle by scoping legal AI use cases, advising on workflow and solution design, and demonstrating legal AI capabilities.
• Develop and execute legal AI strategies for a focused portfolio of signature law firm customers in collaboration with Customer Success and Forward Deployed Engineering.
• Translate complex legal workflows and customer requirements into solution designs, prototypes, integrations, or other technically enabled approaches.
• Design, test, and refine advanced legal AI workflows, including solutions that may combine Thomson Reuters products, customer systems, partner technologies, integrations, or custom development.
• Use knowledge of the legal technology ecosystem to determine whether customer needs are best addressed through products, a partner solution, an integration, or custom development, and help orchestrate the right approach.
• Document solution patterns, technical requirements, implementation considerations, and lessons learned for reuse in future customer engagements.
• Advocate for customers by communicating needs to Customer Success and cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, and Marketing, and by highlighting opportunities to improve and innovate legal AI products.
• Share expertise with customers and the broader market through events, advisory boards, or customer-facing content.
• Serve as an advocate for relevant products by understanding strengths, improvement areas, and roadmaps; explain how products can be applied to advance customer outcomes.
• Travel approximately 25–30% (varying by quarter) to customer and firm sites to support client engagements, demonstrations, and team initiatives; candidates must be willing and able to travel as a condition of employment.

Required Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited US law school.
• Prior experience practicing law required (e.g., law firm, in-house legal department, government, clerkship, or comparable legal practice setting).
• Proven experience in customer- or client-facing roles, ideally engaging with Enterprise or complex accounts.
• Familiarity with legal workflows and processes such as due diligence, eDiscovery, large document review, compliance, or related domains, gained through direct practice, adjacent roles, or working with legal professionals.
• Demonstrable experience with generative artificial intelligence applications.
• Substantial experience using a variety of online legal research and practice tools (e.g., Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Relativity, Everlaw, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to learn and work hands-on with AI tools, workflow technologies, and technically complex solutions.
• Experience with workflow automation, APIs, integrations, technical prototyping, data analysis, Python, or another form of exploratory coding strongly preferred.
• Experience collaborating with software engineers, solution engineers, implementation teams, or other technical specialists preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing roles, ideally working with Enterprise accounts.
• Understanding of the architecture and operation of large language models (LLMs) and ability to apply that understanding to hands-on design, testing, and refinement of legal AI solutions.
• Comfort working at the intersection of legal practice and technology, translating ambiguous legal and business needs into structured requirements and testable solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and technical delivery teams, including communicating customer requirements, evaluating solution options, testing outputs, and documenting implementation considerations.
• Experience or aptitude in technically oriented areas such as workflow automation, system integrations, APIs, data structures, prompt and context design, technical prototyping, or exploratory coding.
• Knowledgeable in due diligence, eDiscovery, managing large document sets, data rooms, and related workflows where AI can accelerate results.
• Strong communication skills, including creating clear, high-quality documentation and learning materials; ability to craft persuasive presentations for non-technical, often skeptical customers by focusing on needs and outcomes.
• Ability to work directly with motivated customers to solve complex problems, including through in-person, on-site engagements.
• Creativity, curiosity, and a growth mindset; ability to simplify ambiguous challenges and turn them into opportunities.
• Ability to stay up-to-date with emerging AI research and industry trends, and think critically about risks, opportunities, and societal impact.
• Willingness to embrace innovation and experimentation, viewing setbacks as opportunities to learn, iterate, and improve outcomes.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range (US eligible locations): $100,100 USD - $185,900 USD.
• Base pay is positioned within the range based on factors including knowledge, skills, and experience, with consideration given to internal equity.
• This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
• Benefits (US): comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs; competitive 401k plan with company match; flexible vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays, including two company mental health days off; parental leave; sabbatical leave; plus additional benefits including 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, Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance, Tuition Reimbursement, and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Additional workplace policies include flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and supportive workplace policies related to work-life balance.

Location

United States (eligible US locations). Travel is required (approximately 25–30%, varying by quarter).

Application Deadline

This job posting will close 12/31/2026.