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- Contract
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- Full-time
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- Full-time
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- Contract
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ON · Ontario, Canada
- Full-time
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- Full-time
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- Full-time
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Low Latency Java Developer, Vice President
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AI Engineer Lead

Toronto, ON, Canada

Contract

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Job type: Contract
Apply by: Dec 2, 2026
Experience: 8+ years of software engineering / application development experience.
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 2, 2026

Original job description

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer Lead to lead the engineering and production implementation of enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Python, APIs, and cloud-native application development

The AI Engineer Lead works closely with AI Architects, application teams, data engineers, cloud/platform teams, and security teams to turn architecture into production-ready, scalable, and maintainable solutions, while providing technical leadership to the engineering team and engaging directly with the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Delivery & Leadership

Own engineering delivery, including sprint planning, estimation, technical risk and dependency management, and release management.

Lead and mentor AI engineers and developers; provide technical direction and resolve complex engineering challenges.

Own code quality: conduct code and design reviews and enforce engineering standards and engineering governance

Own production readiness and take technical ownership of solutions through enterprise production deployment.

Break architecture/design into implementable technical components and engineering stories.

Lead technical PoCs and convert successful prototypes into production solutions.

Hands-On Build: Lead hands-on development of enterprise AI and Generative AI applications using Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, and related Azure AI services

Implement RAG solutions: data ingestion and preprocessing, document chunking, embedding generation, vector and hybrid search, retrieval and reranking, context construction, and LLM grounding and response generation.

Build AI agents and agentic workflows that interact with enterprise applications, APIs, data, and knowledge sources

Develop reusable AI components, frameworks, APIs, accelerators, and engineering patterns

Implement prompt engineering, prompt/version management, structured outputs, function/tool calling, and multimodal AI use cases.

Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise applications and workflows

Stakeholder Engagement: Work with Product Owners and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Collaborate with AI Architects to implement approved solution designs and raise design feedback from the engineering perspective.

Experience & Qualifications:

8+ years of software engineering / application development experience.

3+ years working with cloud-native / Azure technologies.

Strong hands-on experience with AI/ML or Generative AI solutions; demonstrated LLM/RAG application delivery.

Experience leading AI engineering teams through design, development, testing, and deployment.

Experience managing delivery of AI programs and taking solutions from PoC through enterprise production deployment.

Strong experience troubleshooting complex application/integration issues

Experience working directly with architects, customers, and business stakeholders.

Must-Have Skills

Large Language Models and Generative AI

RAG, Agentic AI, Prompt engineering

Embeddings, vector search, and hybrid search, Function/tool calling and structured output

LLM evaluation

Grounding techniques and hallucination mitigation

Guardrails / content safety, Token and context management, Model selection and benchmarking

Python, APIs, and Azure

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Responsibilities

Lead and mentor AI engineers while owning delivery, code quality, technical risk, and production readiness for enterprise AI solutions. Build and integrate Azure-based Generative AI applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows, and collaborate with architects, product owners, business teams, and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years with cloud-native or Azure technologies, and hands-on delivery experience with AI/ML or Generative AI, including LLM and RAG applications. Candidates should have experience leading AI engineering teams and taking solutions from proof of concept through enterprise production deployment, along with strong Python, API, troubleshooting, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Skills

Generative AI
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI
Prompt Engineering
Python
Microsoft Azure
Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Search
Microsoft Foundry
Vector Search
Hybrid Search
Function and Tool Calling
LLM Evaluation
API Development
Cloud-Native Development

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Keywords

Generative AI
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI
Microsoft Foundry
Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Search
Azure Machine Learning
Microsoft Azure
Python
APIs
Cloud-Native Applications
Embeddings
Vector Search
Hybrid Search
Reranking
Prompt Engineering
Prompt Version Management
Function Calling
Tool Calling
Structured Outputs
Multimodal AI
LLM Evaluation
Grounding
Hallucination Mitigation
Guardrails
Content Safety
Token Management
Context Management
Model Benchmarking

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