Software Engineer, Legal Prompter

Join CoCounsel International as a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter

We're seeking a skilled Software Engineer to craft innovative LLM-driven experiences that revolutionize the legal industry. As a Legal Prompter, you'll leverage your legal domain expertise and Python programming skills to develop accurate and contextually relevant responses. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate language models, gather requirements, and drive exceptional customer experiences. If you're a motivated engineer with a passion for AI, law, and problem-solving, we want to hear from you

About the role

In this opportunity as a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter (CoCounsel International), you will:

• 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

About You

You're a fit for the role of Software Engineer, Legal Prompter (CoCounsel International) if you have the following required qualifications:

• Legal domain expertise experience in the Australian 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)

What's in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you'll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.
• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• 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.
• 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.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters clarifies today's complex landscape with AI and technology, deep subject-matter expertise, and content the world has trusted for over 150 years – giving professionals the confidence to know today, navigate tomorrow, and lead a fast-evolving world. Our industry-leading products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services, Reuters.

We empower our colleagues to reduce inefficiencies so they can do more of the work that matters, act decisively to add greater value for critical stakeholders, and anticipate future challenges to face the unexpected. As the future arrives faster than ever, we're standing alongside our global team of more than 26,000 colleagues across 70+ countries, ready to fulfill our purpose: to inform the way forward. Sound exciting? Apply today to join our team

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. Additional details on how to request an accommodation can be found here.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.