Staff Software Engineer - AI

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Toronto, ON
Hybrid
140K-175K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology
The Role
The Lead Software Engineer, AI is responsible for developing AI-driven solutions, leading technical strategy, mentoring software engineers, and ensuring compliance with ethical AI principles.
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Staff Software Engineer-AI

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI technology and leading the charge in building intelligent solutions that transform how Tax and Trade products work? Join the Thomson Reuters Corporate Tax and Trade team and drive the technical execution of groundbreaking AI projects that make a real difference. As a Staff Software Engineer – AI, you will play a lead role in developing intelligent systems that power the next generation of Tax and Trade products.
About the Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer – AI, you will:

spearhead the development of cutting-edge, AI-powered solutions and drive the design of enterprise-scale AI systems that transform how our organisation delivers value to customers.

Build & Architect AI-Driven Systems

  • Design and lead the implementation of complex, enterprise-scale AI systems, including sophisticated multi-component architectures and ML capabilities.

  • Architect scalable AI model integration strategies for production software through robust APIs, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.

  • Define technical standards and best practices for AI systems within Corporate Tax and Trade and across Thomson Reuters.

Drive Innovation & Technical Strategy

  • Lead evaluation and strategic adoption of cutting-edge AI techniques to solve complex business challenges.

  • Oversee and assess emerging technologies, translating insights into actionable technical roadmaps.

  • Drive innovation initiatives and establish Corporate Tax and Trade as a leader in applied AI for Tax and Trade products.

Provide Senior Technical Leadership

  • Lead technical architecture decisions and translate high-level business requirements into comprehensive, scalable technical solutions.

  • Champion MLOps and LLMOps practices across the organization, leading both design and implementation initiatives.

  • Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions, balancing innovation with operational excellence.

Ensure Quality, Security & Operational Excellence

  • Design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks, monitoring systems, and observability solutions for AI models and services.

  • Conduct advanced systems analysis and drive operational improvements across AI infrastructure.

  • Establish and enforce best practices in reliability, scalability, and performance tuning.

Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with AI researchers, senior engineering leadership, design, and product teams to translate AI capabilities into user-facing features.

  • Lead strategic initiatives for application feature enhancements through advanced AI-driven approaches.

  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure responsible and explainable AI outcomes.

About You

You are a fit for the position of Staff Software Engineer – AI if your background includes:

  • Required Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience; master’s degree preferred.

  • 8+ years of experience building AI/ML systems, with extensive hands-on experience

  • Deep understanding of machine learning principles and lifecycle management for enterprise-scale AI applications.

  • Demonstrated expertise in integrating AI models into large-scale production systems using AWSAzure, or GCP, leveraging tools like DockerKubernetes, and Terraform.

  • Strong leadership experience driving technical architecture, mentoring teams, and influencing strategic engineering direction.

  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills with experience engaging senior stakeholders.

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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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $175,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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, sexual 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.

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More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com

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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
33,822 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its 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. For more information, visit tr.com.

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