Applied AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Applied AI Engineer (AI): Facilitating the adoption of hirify.global products among customers and collaborating with them to address complex technical challenges with an accent on driving the successful deployment of AI solutions. Focus on managing customer relations, providing technical guidance, and improving product capabilities based on customer feedback.

Location: Montreal

Company

hirify.global democratizes AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions.

What you will do

• Onboard customers on products and APIs, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
• Work on state-of-the-art GenAI applications from consumer products to industrial use cases.
• Help deploy into production use cases with a considerable business impact across various industries.
• Collaborate with researchers, AI engineers, and product engineers on complex customer projects.
• Be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs and provide technical guidance.
• Collaborate with the product and science team to improve product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback.

Requirements

• Fluent in English
• Hold a PhD / master in AI / data science.
• Have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer) on AI-based products
• Experience in Fine Tuning LLMs, tackling advanced RAG or agentic use cases
• Deep understanding of concepts and algorithms underlying machine learning and LLMs
• Experienced with building and deploying LLMs or NLP applications
• Proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end and front-end interfaces.
• Strong technical coding skills in Python
• Experience with deep learning with Pytorch
• Experience with agents framework such as Langchain, vector DBs
• Strong communication skills with an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

• Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of LLMs
• Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous equity
• Health insurance (Sun Life) and pension match up to 6% of contributions
• 25 days of PTO
• Allowance for public transportation or parking charges reimbursed
• Betterup coaching on a voluntary basis
• 145 CAD/month reimbursement for gym membership and 480 CAD monthly allowance for meals