Vice President, AI Platform Engineering
About The Role
Thomson Reuters is investing in AI as a core capability across Legal, Tax, Risk, News, and Corporates. We are seeking a senior Technology Leader to define and drive the technical direction for how enterprise AI systems—including multi-agent architectures, fine-tuned models, and retrieval-augmented solutions—are designed, governed, and scaled across the platform organization, while ensuring product engineering teams can safely and efficiently consume these capabilities.
Key Responsibilities And Impact
Define, publish, and evolve TR’s AI-native engineering standards, including reference implementations; support adoption through office hours and direct engagement with product engineering teams.
Partner with InfoSec, Legal, Privacy, and the AI Council to ensure AI engineering practices are auditable, compliant, and production ready.
Lead architecture reviews for AI systems entering the production estate, driving standards compliance and shaping the Platform Engineering portfolio ahead of demand.
Own the technical direction for the AI platform capabilities engineering teams across TR consume: model serving, evaluation infrastructure, RAG and retrieval infrastructure, fine-tuning workflows, prompt and observability tooling, and the integration of these capabilities with the existing platform estate (IDP, API management, observability, GitHub).
Represent Platform Engineering in M&A technical due diligence, where AI, cloud, and modern engineering posture are in scope.
Drive broader engineering productivity and developer experience initiatives where AI intersects with IDP, DORA, API-first delivery, and Consumer Success engagements.
Coach and mentor principal and staff engineers across the organization, raising the bar for how TR designs, evaluates, and delivers production-grade AI systems.
Represent Thomson Reuters externally at AI engineering, platform, and architecture forums to both learn from and influence industry best practices.
Location
This hybrid role can be based in any of the following hub locations: Eagan, MN; Frisco, TX or New York, NY.
About You
You are a strong fit for the VP, AI Platform Engineering role if you possess the following skills and experience:
15+ years building and operating software at enterprise scale, with at least 5 years in AI/ML engineering with a focus on production deployment.
Proven track record building and shipping multi-agent AI systems at enterprise scale.
Deep expertise in LLM fine-tuning techniques (DPO, RAG, multi-turn prompting).
Experience designing and implementing agentic AI architectures: tool-use, orchestration, reasoning, evaluation.
Strong background in MLOps and ML data infrastructure (Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, model serving, feature stores).
Working fluency across the current AI-developer-tooling landscape: coding agents, MCP, evaluation frameworks, prompt and eval observability.
Experience with cloud AI services across AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker), Azure, GCP, or OCI.
Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain, AutoGen, vLLM).
Deep engineering credibility with hands-on AI engineering experience.
Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DX) and the limits of each.
Comfort operating across CTO and CIO governance, product engineering leaders, security, legal, and procurement.
You know how to land AI strategy in a regulated, multi-segment business.
Strong written communication. You will be writing standards, not just slide decks.
Demonstrated ability to lead research teams and translate academic work into production systems.
Track record of organizational leadership and scaling cross-functional teams.
Nice to have:
Graduate degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related field.
Active academic researcher or open-source contributor in agentic AI, LLM customisation, or related areas.
Experience with conversational AI, document intelligence (LayoutLM-style models), or domain-specific dialogue systems.
Prior experience in leading teams of engineers, AI researchers, and product development teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications, owning large projects or workstreams.
Experience in legal, tax, financial services, or other regulated information businesses.
Experience defining and shipping data catalogues and workflows at scale (Port, Backstage, or comparable).
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.