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# Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE

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Thomson Reuters posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Frisco, TX and 3 more, at $118,400–$219,800 base. Senior Software Engineer on the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team, designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments.

- [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters)

First seen Aug 17, 2026

**$118,400–$219,800** Frisco, TX +3 Full-time

Senior Software Engineer on the CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team, designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments.

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## At a glance

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **5+ years** software engineering
- **2+ years** building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production

Background

- **Software engineering**

Tools

- **Python**
- **RAG**
- **LangChain**
- **LangGraph**
- **PydanticAI**
- **AutoGen**
- **vector databases**
- **AWS**
- **Azure**
- **GCP**
- **Datadog**
- **Grafana**

## Conditions

- **Location**: Frisco, TX · New York, NY · Richmond, VA · Eagan, MN

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

## More like this

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## What you’ll do

- Design and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows like contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
- Build scalable, secure AI systems including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations within architectural frameworks.
- Develop and configure multi-step agentic workflows using CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems.
- Implement observability, evaluation, and quality controls for production AI systems, including monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming.

## What you’ll bring

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong system design, distributed systems, and clean architecture.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend engineering, including RESTful APIs, async services, and event-driven systems.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen, plus RAG architectures and vector databases.

## About Thomson Reuters

Provides trusted legal, tax, compliance, risk, and news content plus workflow software and AI for professionals making high-stakes decisions.

Public · 5000+ people

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