Senior AI Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Experience
- 1–2 years of direct experience leading emerging technology or enterprise AI initiatives.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Senior AI Engineer
Toronto Downtown, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)
In Person Interview Required
Key Responsibilities
- 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).
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior AI Engineer at Astra North Infoteck will build and lead AI products and pilots, design scalable generative AI systems, and optimize production performance. The role also works with product managers and data scientists, manages delivery timelines, and helps set the company's long-term AI strategy.
Requirements
Candidates need 10+ years of progressive engineering experience and 1 to 2 years leading emerging technology or enterprise AI initiatives. They need hands-on expertise in LLMs, LangChain, AWS, vector and graph databases, Python, and modern web development.
Skills
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models
- GPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- LLaMA
- Prompt engineering
- LLM fine-tuning
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Amazon Bedrock
- Agentic AI
- Model Context Protocol
- Graph RAG
- RAG architecture
- Weaviate
- Milvus
- PGVector
- Neo4J
- Neptune
- Apache Airflow
- AWS EKS
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Lambda
- AWS EC2
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Senior AI Engineer
- Generative AI
- LLM
- LLM pipelines
- Agentic AI
- Model Context Protocol
- MCP
- RAG
- Graph RAG
- prompt engineering
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Amazon Bedrock
- AWS
- Python
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Airflow
- Terraform
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- AWS
- Terraform
- Docker
- Apache Airflow
- Neo4J
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Tableau
- QuickSight
- Python
Languages
- English