AI Engineer

Are you passionate about leveraging artificial intelligence to transform how information is discovered and utilized? We are seeking an AI Engineer / Prompter to drive the development of innovative AI-powered solutions tailored for Japanese-speaking users. This pivotal role focuses on enhancing search, content generation, and user experience by integrating cutting-edge generative AI technologies. We are looking for a candidate with a strong sense of curiosity and the confidence to explore nuanced, complex, and unfamiliar subject areas.

• Drive the development of AI-enhanced features, focusing on large language models (LLMs) and agentic-based generative AI technologies.
• Conduct in-depth research across various platforms, creating best-practice research examples to optimize AI functionalities.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to develop and refine AI-driven tools and solutions.
• Draft, review, and refine prompts for AI systems and tools, ensuring high-quality content and output in Japanese.
• Evaluate and grade search queries and generated content for relevance, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.

• 3+ years of work experience in one of the following areas: Research-intensive or content development settings (e.g., academic research, information services, knowledge management)
• AI-related service or product development
• Professional services with a focus on analysis and content creation
• Full working proficiency in Japanese (written and spoken). English proficiency is preferred but not required.
• Exceptional research skills, including expertise in Boolean and other online search languages.
• Experience in creating and refining LLM prompts and data indexes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to multitask effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong grasp of technical or professional terminology.
• Outstanding interpersonal and team collaboration skills.

• 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 ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) 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.

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Financial Services, Legal Services, IT Services and IT Consulting

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