Legal AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Facilitate in-person discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, workflow workshops, and executive briefings with law firm clients.

• Identify key legal workflows and illustrate how Thomson Reuters Legal AI can meet those needs.

• Define Legal AI use cases and provide guidance on workflow and solution design.

• Showcase legal AI capabilities throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

• Develop and implement Legal AI strategies for a targeted portfolio of key law firm clients.

• Convert complex legal workflows and customer requirements into solution designs, prototypes, integrations, or custom development.

• Create, test, and enhance advanced Legal AI workflows that integrate Thomson Reuters products, customer systems, partner technologies, integrations, or custom development.

• Assess whether customer needs are best met through Thomson Reuters products, partner solutions, integrations, or custom development.

• Coordinate suitable technical approaches with cross-functional teams.

• Record solution patterns, technical requirements, implementation considerations, and lessons learned.

• Relay customer needs to Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams.

• Identify opportunities to enhance and innovate legal AI products.

• Contribute to thought leadership through events, advisory boards, and customer-facing content.

• Advocate for Thomson Reuters products and clarify their application to clients' advocacy efforts.

• Travel frequently to customer and firm locations for client engagements, demonstrations, and team initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited US law school is required.

• Previous experience practicing law is required, including roles in law firms, in-house legal departments, government, clerkships, or similar legal practice environments.

• Demonstrated experience in customer- or client-facing roles, preferably with Enterprise or complex accounts.

• Familiarity with legal workflows and processes such as due diligence, eDiscovery, large document review, and compliance.

• Proven experience with generative artificial intelligence applications.

• Significant experience using online legal research and practice tools such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Relativity, and Everlaw.

• Capacity to learn and work hands-on with AI tools, workflow technologies, and complex technical solutions.

• Willingness and ability to travel regularly, approximately 25–30%, as a job requirement.

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in workflow automation, APIs, integrations, technical prototyping, data analysis, Python, or exploratory coding.

• Preferred experience collaborating with software engineers, solution engineers, implementation teams, or technical specialists.

• Knowledge of large language model architecture and operation is essential.

• Ability to translate legal and business requirements into structured specifications and testable solutions.

• Competence in communicating customer requirements, assessing solution options, testing outputs, and documenting implementation considerations.

• Experience or aptitude in workflow automation, system integrations, APIs, data structures, prompt and context design, technical prototyping, or exploratory coding.

• Understanding of due diligence, eDiscovery, large document sets, data rooms, and related workflows.

• Ability to convey technical concepts, produce documentation and educational materials, and deliver compelling presentations.

• Capability to engage directly with customers through in-person, on-site interactions.

• Awareness of emerging AI research and industry trends, including associated risks, opportunities, and societal impacts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks each year.

• Flexible work arrangements and policies promoting work-life balance.

• Opportunities for continuous learning, skills development, and career growth programming.

• Flexible vacation options.

• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.

• Access to the Headspace app.

• Retirement savings and a competitive 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Tuition reimbursement available.

• Employee incentive programs.

• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Two paid volunteer days annually.

• Opportunities for pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.

• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options.

• Paid time off for sick leave and safety considerations.

• Paid holidays.

• Parental leave benefits.

• Sabbatical leave options.

• Optional hospital, accident, and sickness insurance.

• Optional life and AD&D insurance coverage.

• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts available.

• Fitness reimbursement program.

• Employee Assistance Program access.

• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit.

• Access to a 529 Plan.

• Commuter benefits provided.

• Assistance with adoption and surrogacy.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan eligibility.

• Potential eligibility for an Annual Bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.