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Senior Data Scientist
Intact FC
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing team!
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Senior AI Engineer
Astra-North Infoteck Inc. ~ Conquering today’s challenges, achieving tomorrow’s vision!
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and domain experts to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
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Maintenance Operations Analyst
Jazz Aviation LP
Halifax, NS
- Full-time
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Data Integration Specialist
Co-operators
Guelph, ON
- Full-time
Work Model: Hybrid (2 days in office)
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Senior Software Developer - Form
Safe Software
Remote, Canada
- $128,100 to $142,700 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
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Lead Service Manager - SOAR Engineer
Open Text Corporation
Waterloo, ON
- Other
Strong Python development skills with experience in REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, API integrations, data transformation, and automation frameworks.
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Co-op Student - Computer Science/Physics
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Ottawa, ON
- Full-time
…12months), 37.5 hours weekly within the Physics & Controls Engineering Team. This role will be based out of the Nordion facility in Ottawa. Reporting to the Manager, Radiation Technology &…
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Senior Systems Test Engineer (Embedded & Mobile)
Planitar
Waterloo, ON
- Full-time
As a Senior Systems Test Engineer (Embedded & Mobile), you will join a tight-knit engineering team and own quality across the way iGUIDE captures data: the camera, the PLANIX Mobile App,…
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Director, Public & Alternative Investments, Data Platforms
CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Ability to guide engineering teams across cloud-native development, data quality, observability and delivery practices. Experience with lakehouse technologies, Python, SQL, CI/CD,…
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RQ11601 – Systems Testing/QA Specialist – Senior
S M Software Solutions Inc
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Work Arrangement: Onsite, 5 days per week
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Applied Scientist, Ring AI
Amazon Science
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for computer vision applications.
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Cloud Software Engineer
Actalent
Ottawa, ON
- $46 to $65 CAD / hour
- Contract
The Software Developer will support the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Telemetry & Observability Platform (TOP). This enterprise platform integrates vehicle telemetry,…
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Cloud Software Engineer
Actalent
Ottawa, ON · Kanata, ON
- $46 to $65 CAD / hour
- Contract
The Software Developer will support the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Telemetry & Observability Platform (TOP). This enterprise platform integrates vehicle telemetry,…
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Data Science Intern
Boeing
Vancouver, BC · Richmond, BC · CAN - Richmond, Canada
- Full-time
As a Data Scientist Intern, you will have to combine the skills of a developer and a detective, drawing on a wide palette of mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and programming…
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Software Engineer, Test
Providius
Hamilton, ON
- Full-time
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys writing code, building automation, investigating failures, and learning how complex software systems behave.
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Software Development Engineer in Test - AI
Delos Data
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
…performance, scalability, and resiliency challenges in large-scale AI data center clusters. We are backed by top-tier VC firms and notable angel…
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System Software Engineer - AI
Delos Data
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Group Risk Specialist (ATH 5211)
TD
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Through advanced analytics involving big data - data collection, wrangling, and exploration - perform detailed analytics to identify opportunities to enhance credit extension and lending…
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Multilingual Software Engineering & AI Evaluation Specialist
Gramian Consulting Group
Remote, Canada
- Contract
- Remote
Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we…
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Senior Associate/Vice President Index Management – Equity Rebalance
Solactive AG
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
…maintenance, and a curiosity for trends in investing. If you thrive on data-driven analysis, idea generation, and client collaboration, you will fit right in. Work with us in an…
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Senior Network Designer
Rogers Communications
Brampton, ON
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Network Designer ,Wireless Network and Cloud Engineering professional who is passionate about designing and evolving next-generation…
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Valuations Financial Instruments, Senior Manager
PwC Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
…finance discipline (Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Financial Engineering, or other relevant postgraduate…
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Associate Director - Lead Data Modeler/Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We are looking for a Associate Director - Lead Data Modeler/Analyst to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade data models across our cloud data lake. This is a senior leadership…
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Digital Controls Technical Specialist
trane technologies
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
In addition to fluency in French, successful candidates must have full professional proficiency in English in order to support and collaborate
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Senior AI Engineer / AI Agent Lead
Emplia
Montreal, QC · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
- Full-time
Reporting to the Head of Product, you will work closely with product, engineering, HR technology specialists, and external technology providers to translate product requirements into a…

Emplia

Senior AI Engineer / AI Agent Lead

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, QC, Canada

Full-time

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Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Nov 13, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 14, 2026

Original job description

Senior AI Engineer / AI Agent Lead

Emplia Inc.

Montréal, QC | Full-Time | Hybrid

Reports to: Head of Product

About Emplia

Emplia is building an AI-powered workforce support platform designed to transform how employees interact with HR, Time & Attendance, Payroll, and other enterprise workforce systems.

At the center of our platform is the Emplia Agent - a multilingual conversational AI that provides employees and managers with a single, intelligent entry point to workforce information, enterprise systems, and validated organizational knowledge.

Unlike a general-purpose chatbot, the Emplia Agent is designed for enterprise environments where accuracy, security, permissions, privacy, traceability, and controlled actions matter.

We are moving from Proof of Concept toward MVP and are looking for a senior AI engineerto take technical ownership of the Emplia Agent.

The Role

As Senior AI Engineer / AI Agent Lead, you will be responsible for the architecture, development, testing, and continuous improvement of the intelligence layer behind the Emplia Agent.

Reporting to the Head of Product, you will work closely with product, engineering, HR technology specialists, and external technology providers to translate product requirements into a reliable, secure, and scalable AI agent.

This is a highly hands-on position.

You will not simply configure an LLM or write prompts. You will own how the Agent reasons, retrieves information, interacts with enterprise systems, applies permissions and guardrails, uses tools, handles uncertainty, escalates cases, and delivers consistent multilingual experiences.

What You Will Own

You will take technical ownership of the Emplia Agent, including:

Design and development of the core conversational AI architecture
LLM integration, evaluation, and model-selection strategy
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture
Vector and hybrid search
Knowledge retrieval, grounding, and source citation
Prompt, system-instruction, and context architecture
Agent skills and reusable AI capabilities
Intent recognition and request classification
AI tool use and function calling
Agent orchestration and workflow logic
Read versus transactional action routing
Explicit confirmation workflows for sensitive or transactional actions
Guardrails and controlled refusal behavior
Human escalation and exception handling
Hallucination prevention and factuality controls
Permission-aware retrieval and data access
Multilingual AI behavior
Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech integration
AI observability, tracing, and monitoring
AI evaluation and regression testing
Latency, reliability, and AI cost optimization
Privacy-aware handling of PII and conversational context
Technical documentation of AI architecture and design decisions

The Product Challenges You Will Help Solve

The Emplia Agent is being designed to operate across complex enterprise environments.

Some of the challenges you will work on include:

Providing answers exclusively from approved enterprise knowledge and authorized system data
Preventing unsupported or fabricated answers
Dynamically retrieving information from HR and workforce systems
Ensuring employees only access information they are authorized to see
Detecting conflicting data across enterprise systems
Knowing when the Agent should answer, ask a clarification question, execute an action, or escalate to a human
Creating safe confirmation workflows before transactional actions are executed
Supporting enterprise HR processes across multiple systems and clients
Maintaining strict tenant and data isolation
Delivering consistent experiences across text and voice
Supporting English, French, Spanish, and Finnish
Recognizing regional language variations, including Canadian French
Building a framework that allows new Agent skills and enterprise integrations to be added over time

What We're Looking For

Required

Strong professional software engineering experience
Hands-on experience developing production applications using Large Language Models
Strong Python development skills
Experience working with commercial LLM APIs or platforms such as OpenAI, Azure AI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or equivalent
Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and/or hybrid search
Experience implementing LLM tool use / function calling
Experience building conversational AI, AI agents, or agentic workflows
Strong API and backend development skills
Experience combining LLM reasoning with deterministic application logic
Experience developing automated evaluation frameworks for AI applications
Understanding of authentication, authorization, and permission-aware systems
Understanding of AI hallucination, grounding, confidence, and failure modes
Experience handling sensitive or enterprise data
Experience with AI application logging, tracing, monitoring, and production troubleshooting
Strong problem-solving and software architecture skills

Strong Assets

Experience with one or more of the following would be particularly valuable:

Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI
Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Search
Azure Speech
OpenAI APIs
PostgreSQL / pgvector
Semantic and hybrid retrieval
Enterprise search
Speech-to-Text
Text-to-Speech
Real-time conversational AI
Multilingual NLP
Enterprise SaaS
Multi-tenant applications
Enterprise integrations and APIs
HR technology or HRIS platforms
UKG
Workday
SAP SuccessFactors
Oracle HCM
Dayforce
ADP
Jira APIs
PII-sensitive applications
Enterprise security and compliance environments

Previous HR technology experience is valuable but not required. You will work closely with internal workforce technology and product experts.

What Success Looks Like

During your first months at Emplia, you will:

Take ownership of the existing Emplia Agent architecture and AI codebase
Establish a structured AI evaluation and regression-testing framework
Validate and optimize the LLM and retrieval architecture
Improve grounding, factuality, source citation, and refusal behavior
Improve tool-calling reliability and exception handling
Develop and refine Agent skills and guardrails
Establish AI observability and quality metrics
Validate multilingual performance
Help evolve voice capabilities
Support the transition from POC to pilot deployment
Lead the AI engineering workstream toward MVP
Establish engineering standards that allow the Emplia Agent to scale across additional clients, systems, languages, and workforce use cases

Who You Are

You enjoy solving problems that sit between AI research and real-world software engineering.

You understand that a production enterprise AI agent is much more than a prompt connected to an LLM.

You care about reliability, architecture, testing, security, and user experience.

You are comfortable experimenting with new AI technologies but equally comfortable deciding when deterministic software is safer and more appropriate than AI.

You are able to take ownership of a problem, propose a solution, build it, test it, measure it, and improve it.

And you want the opportunity to help shape an AI product from its early stages into a production enterprise platform.

Why Join Emplia

This is an opportunity to join Emplia at a pivotal stage as we move from Proof of Concept toward MVP and commercial deployment.

You will have significant influence over:

The architecture of the Emplia Agent
Our AI technology stack
How Agent skills are designed
Our AI engineering standards
How AI interacts safely with enterprise workforce systems
Our multilingual and voice strategy
The future AI engineering team

Rather than maintaining one small component of a mature platform, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of the intelligence behind the product and help build Emplia's AI engineering capability from the ground up.

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If you're passionate about building reliable enterprise AI agents and want to take meaningful ownership of a product from POC through MVP and scale, we'd like to hear from you.

Send us your CV or LinkedIn profile and tell us about an AI application or agent you've built that you're particularly proud of.

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Responsibilities

Own the architecture, development, evaluation, and ongoing improvement of the Emplia Agent’s AI capabilities, including retrieval, tool use, permissions, guardrails, multilingual behavior, and voice integration. Establish testing, observability, and engineering standards while leading the AI workstream from proof of concept toward a secure, reliable MVP and pilot deployment.

Requirements

Requires strong professional software engineering experience, hands-on production LLM application development, strong Python skills, and experience with RAG, search, tool calling, conversational agents, APIs, and automated AI evaluation. Candidates should also understand authorization, sensitive enterprise data, grounding and hallucination risks, and production monitoring; Azure, speech technologies, multilingual NLP, and HR systems are valuable assets.

Skills

Python
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Vector and Hybrid Search
Embeddings
LLM Tool Use and Function Calling
Conversational AI and Agentic Workflows
API and Backend Development
AI Evaluation and Regression Testing
Permission-Aware Systems
AI Observability and Monitoring
Multilingual NLP
Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech
Enterprise Security and Privacy
PostgreSQL and pgvector
Azure AI

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Keywords

Python
Large Language Models
OpenAI
Azure AI
Anthropic Claude
Google Gemini
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Vector Databases
Embeddings
Semantic Search
Hybrid Search
PostgreSQL
pgvector
Function Calling
Agent Orchestration
Conversational AI
Automated Evaluation
Regression Testing
Permission-Aware Retrieval
Authentication and Authorization
AI Observability
Tracing and Monitoring
Multilingual NLP
Speech-to-Text
Text-to-Speech
Enterprise SaaS
Multi-Tenant Applications
HRIS
PII
Enterprise Integrations

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