Staff Backend Engineer, AI/ML - Remote

Overview

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our ML Foundation and Platform team in Toronto, focusing on building and optimizing state-of-the-art LLM-powered agents that can reason, plan and automate workflows for users.

In Short

• Lead the design and implementation of LLM-based agents.
• Create a platform for teams to utilize ML capabilities.
• Deploy ML services to production.
• Measure and improve retrieval systems.
• Develop APIs and scalable systems.
• Collaborate cross teams to identify LLM solution needs.
• Build machine learning services and data pipelines.
• Maintain and develop services utilizing various ML techniques.
• Implement benchmarking systems for prompts.
• Apply deep understanding of ML breakthroughs to build scalable systems.

Requirements

• Expertise in Python.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading large cross team initiatives.
• 3+ years building and optimizing retrieval systems.
• Deep understanding of LLMs and retrieval metrics.
• Experience implementing memory and tool-use strategies.
• Strong understanding of software testing and CI/CD.
• Build scalable ML pipelines for training and monitoring.
• Knowledge of query augmentation strategies.
• Skilled at prompt engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Extended health & dental benefits from Day 1.
• Opportunity to participate in Employee Stock Option Plan.
• Flexible time off policy.
• Direct access to leadership team.