Job Title: AI Engineer
Duration: 12 months
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid- 4 days onsite)
Schedule: M-F, core business hours – 37.5 hours per week, 7.5 hours per day
Job Description:
The AI Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and deploying AI/ML solutions that enhance business processes, improve decision-making, and enable automation. This role combines software engineering, data science, and machine learning expertise to develop scalable AI systems in production environments.
- Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop end-to-end pipelines including data preprocessing, feature engineering, validation, and deployment.
- Fine-tune LLM-based applications using frameworks like LangChain, LangSmith, or OpenAI APIs.
- Deploy models into production using CI/CD pipline.
- Build scalable microservices or APIs to serve ML models in real time.
- Implement monitoring for model drift, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to define data requirements.
- Work with structured and unstructured datasets using Python, SQL, Spark, Pandas, etc.
- Ensure data quality, governance, and security
- Evaluate new AI frameworks, tools, and techniques.
- Prototype solutions and run experiments to explore feasibility.
- Stay up to date with advancements in LLMs, vector embeddings, multimodal AI, and model compression/optimization.
- Work with product managers and business teams to translate business problems into AI solutions.
- Partner with cloud engineers and DevOps teams for scalable deployment.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:Strong programming skills in Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow).
- Experience with LLMs, NLP, or deep learning.
- Strong knowledge of MLOps tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and model deployment.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices.
- SOFT SKILLS:Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong time management
- Attention to detail and someone who is a self-starter and adaptable
- Strong documentation skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
- NICE-TO-HAVE Banking or financial institution experience
- Agile experience
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.The pay rate for this position is C$95.00/hr.
