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Hiring Senior AI Engineer in Toronto, ON,

Artech
9 days ago
Contract
On-site
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
$55 - $55 CAD hourly
AI

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON "Hybrid (3 days onsite: Tuesday-Thursday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM)"

Duration: 06-12 Months

Hourly Pay Rate: 55 CAD/hr

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior AI Engineer to join the Technology Strategy team supporting transformative AI initiatives. This role is focused on designing, building, and operating advanced AI systems that enable end-to-end customer experiences, increase automation and straight-through processing, and accelerate digital transformation objectives. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in agentic AI systems, knowledge graphs, AI-powered document generation, cloud infrastructure, AI services, CI/CD, observability, and enterprise-scale deployments. You will partner closely with business and engineering stakeholders to deliver AI solutions that are accurate, explainable, secure, scalable, and production-ready.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field.
  • 7 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years focused on AI/ML solutions.
  • Strong expertise in building and deploying LLM-powered applications and agentic AI systems.
  • Experience designing and implementing knowledge graphs, GraphRAG architectures, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks and orchestration tools.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience building APIs, agent interfaces, and distributed systems.
  • Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
  • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, and production support.
  • Experience implementing AI governance, evaluation methodologies, and responsible AI practices.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

  • Experience with Akka SDK or other event-sourced architectures.
  • Experience with Neo4j, MongoDB Atlas, GraphRAG, vector search, and embeddings.
  • Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) frameworks.
  • Experience with Client Copilot Studio or conversational AI platforms.
  • Familiarity with enterprise AI governance and regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Experience working in financial services, insurance, or highly regulated industries.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Design and build agentic AI workflows.
  • Architect and develop long-running, multi-stage AI-driven analytical workflows.
  • Orchestrate large language models (LLMs) alongside tools for retrieval, reasoning, calculations, business rules, and structured data extraction.
  • Develop robust prompt engineering strategies and structured output frameworks.
  • Build and operate enterprise knowledge graphs.
  • Develop ingestion, extraction, and transformation pipelines.
  • Implement GraphRAG, vector search, embeddings, and hybrid retrieval strategies.
  • Develop open agent interfaces and AI integrations.
  • Establish AI governance, evaluation, and safety standards.
  • Productionize and manage AI platforms.

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.