Lead Python AI Engineer

Job Title: Lead Python AI Engineer

Job Location: Montreal QC (Need Onsite day 1 Hybrid 3 days from office)

Job Description:

The Python Al Lead is a builder and technical leader who helps shapes Al strategy through implementation sets engineering standards and mentors the Junior AI Team - while remaining actively involved in design reviews coding experimentation and production deployments. The ideal candidate will develop solutions for Launchpad that consume AI Services in AWS and they will need to understand AI governance plus have strong Agile organisational skills.

The Role

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of Jr AI Engineers

Design build fine-tune evaluate and deploy advanced LLM solutions

Lead the development of frameworks with Langchain

Build agents using AWS Strands SDK Bedrock AgentCore SDK and other AWS services

Develop agent logic and troubleshooting using strong Python skills

Implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks for model performance and RAG quality

Create backend services with Python and integrate with platform APIs

Integrate domain-specific RAG pipelines and evaluation metrics

Consume platform services (gateways MCP tools observability) following security patterns

Requirements:

Strong experience in Python development and practical knowledge of AI frameworks such as Langchain.

Experience with system integration API development and cloud deployment on AWS.

Ability to develop prototypes improve and maintain solutions in production environments.

Knowledge of Terraform python development of Launchpad supporting services Lumina evolution and AWS services

Development of AI related services for Launchpad and Launchpad backlog.

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science AI or related field with at least 5 years of software development experience.