Sr AI Engineer

Role: Sr AI Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description:

• AI Product Delivery: Lead and actively contribute to the development of AI products, pilots, and enterprise solutions with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code.

• Architecture & Design: Design and architect scalable Generative AI solutions, including LLM pipelines, Agentic workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Graph/RAG architectures, and complex prompt-based applications.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Implement highly scalable, cloud-native solutions leveraging modern AWS services.

• Optimization & Innovation: Optimize the performance of production AI products. Drive continuous learning and experimentation with cutting-edge Gen AI methods, frameworks, APIs, and emerging toolchains.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and domain experts to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Technical Leadership: Act as an organization-wide Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Gen AI technologies to help shape the company's long-term AI strategy and technical roadmap.

• Project Ownership: Manage timelines, deliverables, and project milestones using Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban) to ensure reliable end-to-end product delivery.

• Operations & Governance: Monitor operational metrics and incident data to improve system reliability. Ensure strict adherence to corporate governance and DevSecOps protocols.

Required Experience & Skills

Technical Expertise

• 10 + years of progressive engineering experience. - DO NOT SUBMIT LESS THEN 10 YRS EXP.

• 1–2 years of direct experience leading emerging technology or enterprise AI initiatives.

• Strong familiarity with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices and DevSecOps protocols.

• Generative AI & LLMs: Core proficiency with commercial and open-source models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA), advanced prompt engineering, and LLM fine-tuning techniques.

• AI Frameworks & Architectures: Deep hands-on experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Amazon Bedrock, Agentic AI, MCP, and Graph/RAG architectures.

• Databases & Orchestration: Proven experience with Vector and Graph databases (Weaviate, Milvus, PGVector, Neo4J, Neptune), query optimization, and ETL orchestration using Apache Airflow/DAGs.

• Cloud & DevOps (AWS): Comprehensive knowledge of AWS infrastructure, including computation (EKS, Fargate, Lambda, EC2), networking/load balancing (ELB, GLB, NLB), data analytics (Athena, Glue, Lake Formation), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Puppet, Docker).

• Full-Stack Development: Strong proficiency in Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Boto3) alongside modern web application development using Next.js, React, and TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Testing & Analytics: Familiarity with automated AI and web testing frameworks (Ragas, Playwright, Zephyr, Selenium) and Business Intelligence tools (QuickSight, Tableau).