AI Developer Senior

Intact FC • Montreal, QC

2d • CA$118,700 - CA$145,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior AI Developer to join our growing team! This role is a new member of our growing team. We are an equal opportunity employer. At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today. We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request. If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs. Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum 6 years of significant experience in development
• Strong in Python.
• Proficiency with Cloud Infrastructure (ideally AWS), containers, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and observability
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business problems into technical solutions; proactive, change agent, and collaborative team player.
• Experience with automated testing on the backend and UI and familiarity with observability tools and practices
• Good understanding of GenAI building blocks: prompting techniques, agentic frameworks, evals, guardrails, RAG, embeddings/vectorDBs, model fine tuning, graphDB usage with LLMs, MCP, reasoning models.
• Strong data engineering skills.
• Proficient in AI-assisted coding.
• A good knowledge of MLOps best practices.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism (FR-EN) is required due to frequent collaboration with English-speaking colleagues across Canada.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience in Angular/React is consider an asset.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks technologies like Unity Catalog and Delta Lake is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the MLOps platform to improve the business’ operational processes, ensuring robustness, performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Own end-to-end delivery of software products ranging from workflow orchestrator, APIs/services to front end UI
• Work closely with data scientists and analysts to ensure AI solutions are effectively addressing business needs by leveraging high-quality data and aligning with strategic goals.
• Ensure seamless integration of AI-driven solutions with existing insurance operations systems, coordinating with IT and operations teams to align on technical requirements and deployment strategies.
• Stay up to date with advancements in AI and machine learning technologies, applying new techniques and methodologies to enhance the capabilities and efficiency of deployed solutions, while also contributing to the team's knowledge base.
• Use CI/CD tools and agile methodology to ensure fast and reliable delivery of features and updates.
• Play a Technical Leader / Mentor role for Squad members and influence the technical roadmap.

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. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior