Musashi AI North America, Inc. is a growing hardware and software focused company that builds smart vision solutions for quality assurance in manufacturing environments. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Musashi AI North America employs a talented and dynamic team of R&D and Applications Engineers who lead design, prototyping, and testing efforts to drive new technology development, build innovative products, and support our deployed solutions. The AI Team Lead, responsible for prioritizing team tasks, defining growth plans, and ensuring high team performance, will lead the development, deployment, integration, and ongoing maintenance of AI/ML solutions across the organization. This role focuses on transitioning AI/ML research and prototypes into robust, scalable production systems while ensuring continuous operation, performance optimization, and adaptability to evolving business needs. As a team lead, you will be both a hands-on contributor and strategic leader, managing a high-performing team of AI/ML engineers. You will be responsible for setting the technical direction and AI strategy, prioritizing tasks, defining team structure, establishing KPIs, and driving team growth and development. The role will be roughly 30% leadership and 70% hands-on, balancing technical execution with leadership and mentoring responsibilities. The team lead will collaborate with cross-functional teams including optics, electrical and robotics, and dashboard analytics, and will influence strategic initiatives that drive cost reduction, productivity improvements, and long-term value. Reports to: Director of Engineering