We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI to help lead the design, development, and scaling of enterprise AI solutions at Thomson Reuters.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on building production-grade AI systems, RAG architectures, agent-based workflows, and LLM-powered applications that support legal, tax, risk, and compliance professionals.

The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with hands-on experience delivering AI products at scale.

Required Experience

- 8+ years software engineering experience
- 4+ years in AI/ML-focused engineering roles
- Expert-level Python
- Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG architectures
- AI agent frameworks and orchestration
- Distributed systems and large-scale system design
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- MLOps / LLMOps
- Production AI deployments

Preferred Experience
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude, Gemini, or similar LLM platforms
- Vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
- Enterprise AI governance and model risk management
- AI product launches and production scaling
- Experience in legal, tax, accounting, compliance,



or other regulated industries
- Speaking, publishing, or thought leadership within the AI space

Target Titles
- Staff AI Engineer
- Principal AI Engineer
- Staff Software Engineer
- Lead AI Engineer
- AI Platform Engineer
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer
- Applied AI Engineer
- AI Systems Engineer

Ideal Candidate

Looking for engineers who have built and scaled production AI systems, can drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and translate emerging AI capabilities into enterprise-ready products.

Red Flags

- Prompt engineering only
- Academic AI backgrounds with limited software engineering depth
- No production AI deployment experience
- No large-scale architecture experience
- Frontend-heavy backgrounds

LinkedIn Skills I Would Add

Required

- Python
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Generative AI
- Machine Learning

Nice to Have

- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

📌 Staff Software Engineer, AI (Toronto)
🏢 Hudson Talent Solutions
📍 Toronto