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Principal Engineer, CoCounsel

mn • Posted 5 days ago
Onsite Contract Engineering

  • Participate in shaping the company’s AI platform and patterns
  • Work at real production scale: Build and evolve systems that operate over millions of documents, complex and ever-changing law, privileged client data, and thousands of concurrent AI interactions from professionals doing time-sensitive work
  • Join a tight group of senior engineers and researchers shipping quickly, with direct access to product leadership and customers
  • Lead and/or design initiatives that cut across AI, product, identity, and infrastructure
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers, raising the bar on AI integration practices, system design, code quality, and security across the org
  • Help define and lead the platform integration strategy across new and existing Thomson Reuters legal systems
  • Define how autonomous agents act on a user’s behalf safely
  • Partner with security, platform, and compliance teams on multi-tenancy isolation, data residency, privilege protection, and the audit trails that legal and government customers require
  • Design for high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads: caching, queuing, rate-limiting, model failover, and cost/performance trade-offs
  • Establish and refine SLOs, observability, and incident response for AI systems that must be correct, auditable, and trustworthy in professional legal workflows

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated experience building with AI – LLMs, agents, and retrieval – and a strong point of view on what “AI-native” software should look like
  • Proven track record owning large, complex projects end-to-end: architecture, execution, rollout, and long-term operation
  • Deep Python expertise and experience with production systems using frameworks like FastAPI (or similar), relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent), and a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
  • Strong background in distributed systems: data modeling, API contracts, observability, resilience patterns, and performance tuning under load
  • Hands‑on experience with identity and access management – designing or integrating authentication and authorization at scale (SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, RBAC/ABAC, token/session management, or comparable IAM systems)
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner with product, design, security, and ML teams in a fast-moving environment

Hard Skills

  • AI-Native Software Development
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • FastAPI Framework
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloud Computing (AWS)
  • Data Modeling
  • API Contracts
  • Performance Tuning
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Incident Response

Soft Skills

  • Excellent Communication
  • Mentoring

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