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# Principal Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant
**CHE-Zug-Landis+Gyr-Strasse 3** | **Full time** | **Remote Job: Hybrid**
**Principal Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant**
**Want to shape the future of AI in legal professionals? Join Thomson Reuters as a Principal Engineer and shape the evolution of our CoCounsel AI Assistant.**
At Thomson Reuters, our CoCounsel AI Assistant is transforming how legal professionals work. As a Principal Engineer for the CoCounsel AI Assistant team, you’ll provide technical leadership and architectural vision, working closely with the team’s Director to evolve our AI Assistant into an industry-leading platform that delivers cutting-edge capabilities across Thomson Reuters’ legal products.
**About the Role**
In this opportunity as **Principal Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant**, you will:
* Lead the technical evolution of our AI Assistant platform, improving intent resolution and transforming it into a shared service that powers multiple legal products
* Design and implement scalable solutions that reduce time and effort for product teams throughout Thomson Reuters to offer cutting-edge AI capabilities
* Drive innovation by utilizing the latest technologies in large language models, agentic workflows, and generative AI to deliver professional-grade accuracy for legal professionals
* Provide technical leadership for critically important projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives while designing long-term vision and strategy
* Partner with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into actionable work, drawing out strong design ideas from diverse teams
* Champion best practices and mentor other engineers, strengthening the organization's engineering culture through leadership and knowledge sharing and championing automation and use of AI dev tools
**About You**
You're a fit for the role of **Principal Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant** if your background includes:
* 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a proven track record of developing scalable, web-based solutions
* Strong software development skills in Python, Node.js, or similar modern server-side languages
* Experience with modern UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue or similar)
* Expertise with AI technologies, including GenAI concepts like prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and fine-tuning
* Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
* Experience with AI Coding Tools
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
* Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical solutions both verbally and visually
* Ability to navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
* Demonstrated ability to mentor others and contribute to engineering culture
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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.
*DISCLAIMER*
*The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.*