Manager, Software Development Engineering
Core
Lead the engineering team building and operating Thomson Reuters' Content Tools platform, providing purpose-built APIs and capabilities for AI agents to access legal content.
Role type
Manager, Software Engineering (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Content Tools platform (APIs, CLI, SDKs, evaluation infrastructure) for AI-powered legal products like CoCounsel.
Domain
Legal Technology / Information Retrieval / AI Agents
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, API-first design, CI/CD, distributed team governance, information retrieval concepts, SLO management, incident response
Preferred skills
Agentic AI systems (MCP), legal tech domain, search infrastructure (Elasticsearch/Vespa), retrieval evaluation frameworks, LLM workflow tooling
Technologies
Python, AWS, Elasticsearch, Vespa, OpenSearch, MCP
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end engineering roadmap for Content Tools; establish governance and contribution standards for distributed teams; lead build-out of IR evaluation framework; manage team of ~10 engineers; define platform health benchmarks and developer experience metrics.
Seniority
Manager, people leadership with hands-on technical ownership