This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill
current openings or future vacancies within our organization. Lead/Staff
Software Engineer, AI Are you ready to shape the future of AI‑driven tax
automation? We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to build and scale
intelligent workflows using modern LLM/ML tooling. Your work will directly
impact how tax professionals automate complex, high‑stakes processes and access
critical information. You'll join our Tax and Accounting Professionals 1040 Scan
product engineering team and own the design, implementation, and optimization of
AI‑powered tax workflows—from data ingestion to production deployment. 1040SCAN
is the market-leading scan-and-populate engine in the 1040 workflow, organizing
workpapers, extracting data, and exporting to tax software at scale. As a Senior
AI engineer, you will modernize the AI that powers document understanding,
extraction, and verification—expanding coverage and accuracy while reducing
human effort. About the role, As a Lead/Staff Software Engineer AI, you will:
Advance document intelligence: Build generalizable models for tax documents
(standard and non‑standard) using CV/NLP/LLMs and embeddings to move beyond
fixed OCR templates with dynamic, context‑aware parsing. Boost auto‑verification
& quality: Improve native‑PDF/text‑layer matching, anomaly detection, and
prior‑year‑aware checks to catch issues before human review; design
human‑in‑the‑loop flows that preserve practitioner control. Scale the pipeline:
Productionize low‑latency training/inference pipelines over millions of
documents with robust observability, evaluation, and drift monitoring. Integrate
LLMs and traditional ML models into robust, auditable workflows that support tax
determination, document processing, and rules‑based automation. Build and
maintain data pipelines, feature extraction, and preprocessing for tax‑relevant
data (e.g., invoices, filings, transactional data). Develop and integrate
RESTful APIs / microservices to expose AI capabilities to internal and external
systems. Ensure solutions meet compliance, security, and auditability
requirements typical of tax and regulated domains. You’ll collaborate across
SurePrep engineering and other Thomson Reuters product & engineering teams
leveraging TR’s AI platforms including Materia and Additive to deliver reliable,
auditable AI in production. About you You’re a fit for the role of Lead/Staff
Software Engineer, AI if your background includes: 5+ years in applied ML/AI (or
5+ with an advanced degree) delivering production systems in document AI/OCR/NLP
or information extraction at scale. Strong Python and deep learning expertise
(PyTorch/TensorFlow), with experience in LLMs, embeddings/vector search, prompt
design/evaluation, and statistical methods for quality and uncertainty.
Cloud‑native ML ops experience: training/inference pipelines, feature/data
stores, observability, cost/perf optimization. Own end‑to‑end lifecycle for AI
features: design → implementation → testing → deployment → monitoring →
iteration. Optimize model/workflow inference for latency, throughput, and cost,
including caching, batching, and model selection strategies. Implement
monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for workflows and models in
production (data drift, model performance, error rates). Debug and troubleshoot
complex AI systems in production, including prompt failures, integration bugs,
and data quality issues. Partner with Product, Tax SMEs, and other engineering
teams to translate business/tax requirements into AI workflows. Collaborate with
data scientists and ML engineers on model selection, evaluation, and
experimentation within Reducto pipelines. Lead design reviews, perform code
reviews, and mentor mid‑level/junior engineers on AI best practices and
production‑grade coding. Contribute to internal standards, best practices, and
templates for building AI workflows with Reducto. You've built end‑to‑end AI
features that are running in production, not just prototypes. You can take a
vague tax/business requirement and turn it into a concrete, testable workflow
design. You care about robustness and correctness as much as
cleverness—especially in domains where errors have financial or compliance
impact. You're comfortable reading tax/business rules and working with domain
experts, even if you're not a tax specialist yourself. Preferred Qualifications
Document AI background: layout parsing, table extraction, doc‑type
classification, native‑PDF matching, and verification automation. Agentic/LLM
orchestration experience: familiarity with TR AI platforms such as Materia and
Additive; retrieval‑augmented and tool‑use patterns; evaluation and guardrails.
Modern Development Practices: Hands-on with modern AI coding assistants
including Claude Code, Cline, and GitHub Copilot for rapid prototyping, code
generation, and workflow automation. Version control: Experience with version
control (Git), testing frameworks (pytest or similar), and modern DevOps
practices. Software Engineering: Familiarity with C#, Java or any other
programming language Domain familiarity: exposure to tax/financial document
workflows or other regulated content systems is a plus. #LI-GK1 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 In the United States,
Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our
benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability,
and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company
match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits
with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including
two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These
benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with
any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the
following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness
insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100%
by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness
reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft
Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits;
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee
Stock Purchase Plan. 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 any eligible US locations,
unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $157,500
USD - $292,500 USD. 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.
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