Staff Software Engineer I (Open)

Job Description Staff Software Engineer — Content Tools Content Tools • CoCounsel Agent Context Overview of the Role The CoCounsel Agent Context team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for Content Tools — the purpose-built APIs that give AI agents precise, governed access to Thomson Reuters’ proprietary legal content across various international jurisdictions. Content Tools are the bridge between TR’s authoritative content and the AI products, such as CoCounsel Legal, that depend on them, and they carry high stakes — every result an agent returns must be accurate and grounded in TR’s authoritative content. This Staff Engineer defines how those tools are designed, evaluated, and operated, and sets the patterns that every engineer — on this team and on contributing partner teams — builds against.

This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of API design, information retrieval, and agentic systems. Staff Engineers here define what to build and why, not just how: they solve ambiguous problems that span multiple teams and systems, and their work is felt well beyond their own code. The team’s operating principles are non-negotiable.

You own your work end-to-end, from the first commit to the production dashboard. You ship to production constantly, and you treat delivery friction as an engineering problem to solve, not a fact of life. You use AI-assisted development as a primary tool, with the majority of code written with AI assistance.

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