Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones
The company is cutting engineers while promising to hire 250 more, the large majority of them, it says, senior and AI-native.
July 14, 2026 – 7:27 am
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At a recent all-hands meeting held on Monday, the company referred to a "small number of roles" being cut—an employee present shared that this could be up to 500.
Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology group behind Reuters News, is downsizing engineering jobs globally as it integrates artificial intelligence into its legal, tax, and regulatory products. This decision impacts approximately 1.8% of their total workforce (around 5.2% within the operations and technology division).
"As customer expectations across legal, tax, and regulatory workflows evolve, we are focusing our capacity where it matters most to customers," stated a company spokesperson. "We are supporting affected colleagues through the transition."
The announcement also highlights Thomson Reuters’ plan to hire over 250 net-new engineering roles globally in the next two years, with the majority being senior positions and AI-native.
This shift reflects the current tech job market: restructuring, higher requirements, and a smaller quantity of available positions, as seen in recent cuts at GitLab and new job titles emerging across various companies.
According to layoffs.fyi, approximately 120,000 technology workers have lost their jobs across 228 companies so far in 2026, including Meta, Amazon, and LinkedIn. Software engineers, once insulated from downturns, are now vulnerable as AI tools write code. While the impact of AI is debated, Thomson Reuters has positioned itself as an AI business rather than a database business over the past two years, integrating assistants into Westlaw and other products.