Principal AI Engineer (Autonomous Agent) (AI)

TL;DR

Principal AI Engineer (Autonomous Agent) (AI): Designing and implementing agent-based solutions and data pipelines for generative AI capabilities in healthcare with an accent on agent reasoning, function calling, and action coordination. Focus on developing autonomous agents using LLMs and planning algorithms while ensuring secure integration with existing APIs and systems.

Location: Hybrid (Mississauga, Canada). Must reside within commutable distance to the office.

Salary: $169,000 - $188,000 CAD per year

Company

A leading founder-led health tech company providing a platform for long-term and post-acute care providers.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate objectives into autonomous agent-based solutions.
• Design and build new agent data types and pipelines to enable frameworks for reasoning, function calling, and action coordination.
• Develop and optimize autonomous agents leveraging LLMs, planning algorithms, and multi-step reasoning approaches.
• Implement comprehensive security mechanisms including authentication, role-based access control, audit logging, and compliance monitoring.
• Integrate agents securely with existing systems, APIs, and data sources using secure communication protocols.

Requirements

• Expert level proficiency in Python, frameworks, and functional programming principles.
• Experience designing and implementing LLM agent workflows with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.
• Must reside within commutable distance to the Mississauga office.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher in Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience implementing security at scale, including MFA, network security best practices, and compliance monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package starting from Day 1.
• Retirement plan matching and flexible paid time off.
• Wellness support programs, Employee Assistance Program, and parental/caregiver leaves.
• Fertility and adoption support.
• Continuous development support program to nurture innovation.