AI Developer Senior

Intact FC • Mississauga, ON

2d • CA$118,700 - CA$145,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for someone to join a dynamic and innovative team to build production-grade AI systems that help boost velocity across Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Services teams. You’ll design agentic automations, leveraging access to data and tools, to drive productivity enhancements -grounded in safety, reliability, and measurable impact. This role blends hands-on building with platform thinking; creating and shipping capabilities that other teams can adopt and extend.

Requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering, data/ML engineering, or platform engineering; 2+ years building solutions with LLMs.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, and/or TypeScript; experience building production services and integrations.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD.
• Strong communication skills and a product mindset—able to translate operational pain points into robust solutions.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

Nice To Haves

• Agent frameworks: Hands-on experience with frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK, and AgentFlow for scalable agent workflows.
• Experience with designing interfaces, MCP integration, context engineering, long/short memory, planning, and control flows.
• LLM integration: Experience building with Vertex AI/Gemini, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, and Anthropic APIs.
• Retrieval expertise: Embeddings, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, pgvector), hybrid search, and reranking. Observability, caching, batching, and token budgeting for performance.
• SDLC excellence: Strong software engineering practices with AI-driven design, testing, and CI/CD integration.
• Practical experience with cloud providers, identity/permissions, secrets, reliability, Kubernetes/serverless, message queues, and various common cloud capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with domain teams to identify high-ROI use cases.
• Prototype, build, and own production ready (scalable, observable, secure) AI solutions, leveraging leading LLMs and Agentic AI platforms
• Drive adoption of solutions through demos and user training.
• Improve productivity throughout the entire SDLC process with AI solutions, from Requirements and Design phase to Coding and Testing to Deployment and Runtime Operations.
• Improve AI-driven testing, troubleshooting, incident triaging, root cause analysis, and automation of repetitive workflows with verifiable outcomes.
• Build agentic automation, orchestrate multi-step workflows that plan tasks, call tools/APIs, and execute autonomously with clear guardrails.
• Implement RAG pipelines, ingest documents, create embeddings, index vectors, retrieve and rerank results, and ground outputs with citations.
• Develop system prompts, templates, and structured outputs (e.g., JSON) with versioning and evaluation.
• Set up tracing, relevance/factuality evaluations, and dashboards for cost, latency, and quality metrics.
• Contribute to best practices, patterns, and internal enablement materials.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
• Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance): 12%
• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
• Pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers.
• Opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed