Job Description
Senior AI Solutions Engineer, TR Labs
Are you excited about working at the forefront of applied research in an industry setting? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking Senior AI Solutions Engineers with a passion for solving problems using state-of-the-art information retrieval, natural language processing and generative AI.
What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user need and technical feasibility. Our team is designing the next generation of expert systems for legal, tax, and risk compliance. You’ll leverage state-of-the-art large language models on a robust AI platform to develop agents and tools that transform the future of work for legal and tax professionals.
About The Role:
As an Senior AI Solutions Engineer, you will work with a cross functional team at the intersection of science, product, and engineering to:
Develop zero-to-one concepts for expert systems
Systematically discover and test prompt engineering best practices
Optimize data sets for prompt development, model training and evaluation
Help create and maintain infrastructure required for efficient prompt development
Test and assess open-source solutions for LLM application development including orchestration frameworks, tool interfaces, solutions for context management, etc.
Develop automated techniques for the design and evaluation of AI agents
Analyze usage data to gauge the effectiveness of AI solutions and iteratively improve
Stay up to date with the latest research and emerging tech for AI Engineering
About You:
The ideal candidate for the role of Senior AI Solutions Engineer will have a background in NLP, experience building with LLMs, python proficiency for rapid prototyping, and the soft skills to bridge technical and business perspectives.
Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in CS/ML/DS or a bachelor's with equivalent experience.
4 to 6 years of transferrable experience in natural language processing (NLP)
Basic familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models
Strong desire to work closely with subject matter experts on real world use cases
Active interest in emerging research and industry trends around AI software development
Proficiency in python and AI development tools
A mindset for good experiment design and evaluation; strong analytical and critical thinking
Excellent communication and organization skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on legal AI systems (e.g., for contract analysis, legal research, or drafting)
Domain knowledge in legal, tax, or accounting. A law degree (J.D.), paralegal experience, etc.
A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs
Experience developing NLP applications involving NER, information retrieval, text summarization, question answering, or similar.
Knowledge of MLOps and the end-to-end lifecycle of software applications involving AI models
#LI-JF1
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.
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, ****** 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.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Are you excited about working at the forefront of applied research in an industry setting? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking Senior AI Solutions Engineers with a passion for solving problems using state-of-the-art information retrieval, natural language processing and generative AI.
What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user need and technical feasibility. Our team is designing the next generation of expert systems for legal, tax, and risk compliance. You’ll leverage state-of-the-art large language models on a robust AI platform to develop agents and tools that transform the future of work for legal and tax professionals.
About The Role:
As an Senior AI Solutions Engineer, you will work with a cross functional team at the intersection of science, product, and engineering to:
Develop zero-to-one concepts for expert systems
Systematically discover and test prompt engineering best practices
Optimize data sets for prompt development, model training and evaluation
Help create and maintain infrastructure required for efficient prompt development
Test and assess open-source solutions for LLM application development including orchestration frameworks, tool interfaces, solutions for context management, etc.
Develop automated techniques for the design and evaluation of AI agents
Analyze usage data to gauge the effectiveness of AI solutions and iteratively improve
Stay up to date with the latest research and emerging tech for AI Engineering
About You:
The ideal candidate for the role of Senior AI Solutions Engineer will have a background in NLP, experience building with LLMs, python proficiency for rapid prototyping, and the soft skills to bridge technical and business perspectives.
Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in CS/ML/DS or a bachelor's with equivalent experience.
4 to 6 years of transferrable experience in natural language processing (NLP)
Basic familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models
Strong desire to work closely with subject matter experts on real world use cases
Active interest in emerging research and industry trends around AI software development
Proficiency in python and AI development tools
A mindset for good experiment design and evaluation; strong analytical and critical thinking
Excellent communication and organization skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on legal AI systems (e.g., for contract analysis, legal research, or drafting)
Domain knowledge in legal, tax, or accounting. A law degree (J.D.), paralegal experience, etc.
A portfolio of projects demonstrating creativity and skill building solutions with LLMs
Experience developing NLP applications involving NER, information retrieval, text summarization, question answering, or similar.
Knowledge of MLOps and the end-to-end lifecycle of software applications involving AI models
#LI-JF1
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.
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, ****** 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.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior AI Solutions Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in Toronto offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
