Software Engineer, Legal Prompter, CoCounsel International

Thomson Reuters is a global business that serves professionals across various sectors, including legal, tax, and media. They are seeking a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter to develop applications that leverage Large Language Models to enhance legal solutions for attorneys in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers
• Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs
• Write, test, and iterate prose prompts for the LLM that leverage your legal domain knowledge, ensuring delivery of accurate, legally sound, and contextually appropriate responses
• Develop Python code that interacts with data sources & services (APIs, SQL databases, etc.)
• Liaise with legal professionals and other teams at Thomson Reuters to gather and understand requirements
• Integrate the language models into multi-step systems, assessing their performance and making necessary modifications

Skills

• Legal domain expertise experience in the Canadian legal market. This can mean experience in legal practice, a degree holder in a 'non-traditional' legal career path, a paralegal, or other legal industry experience
• Highly proficient in written and spoken English. This can mean you are a native speaker, have a BA in the language or equivalent certification, or can demonstrate college-level proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in that language
• One to two years of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team, preferably at a startup
• Proficiency in Python - if Python skills are low, then strong experience in other programming languages is necessary
• Proficiency with APIs and SQL is a major plus
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment
• Creative and clear writing skills. Experience using large language models through code is preferred (such as model services from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere; and/or open source models such as Llama and Mistral)
• French speaker

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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