Staff Ai Engineer

Imagine yourself...Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team.TraceGains, a Veralto company, connects people and information so teams can work smarter. As a global technology company, we provide networked innovation, quality, and compliance solutions to consumer brands that want to reduce supply chain risk, speed up business processes, and take control of data.At TraceGains, we believe "we're in this together," and our goal is to provide the most innovative solutions in the industry. With the help of our ever-growing TraceGains Network, we created the CPG industry's first networked ingredients marketplace. Innovation and ingenuity start with a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.Reporting to the Head of AI, the Staff AI Engineer will lead the architecture, development, and operation of production AI systems while advancing how engineering teams build software with AI. This hands-on technical leadership role will turn ambiguous business needs into reliable product capabilities, establish practical standards for agentic development, and influence technical direction across teams. The position is remote within the Americas.In this role, a typical day will look like:Shape the AI roadmap with product and engineering leaders, make architectural decisions, resolve cross-team dependencies, and connect technical choices to measurable business value.Lead hands-on development of agents, tool integrations, retrieval systems, and AI-enabled workflows connected to enterprise APIs and data, from discovery and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and improvement.Design evaluation datasets, baselines, and controlled experiments that measure quality, reliability, latency, cost, and user outcomes, then use the evidence to decide what to scale, revise, or stop.Establish repeatable agentic software development practices, shared tooling, reference architectures, and deployment patterns for evaluation, versioning, observability, staged releases, rollback, security, privacy, and incident response.Mentor engineers through design and code reviews, documentation, and training on AI-assisted development, generated-code validation, test coverage, maintainability, and responsible human oversight.Partner with engineering, legal, compliance, and security leaders to manage AI economics, translate relevant regulations and standards into engineering practices, and implement responsible AI controls and audit evidence.The essential requirements of the job include:
Substantial experience delivering production software, including technical leadership across teams and ownership of complex initiatives from architecture through ongoing operation.Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-based and agentic systems, including tool use, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic harnesses.Strong software engineering expertise in API and system design, data modeling, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, observability, and secure development, with production proficiency in Python or C#.Experience deploying cloud services and integrating enterprise APIs and data while managing reliability, security, performance, and operating cost.Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience, plus the ability to travel occasionally for department meetings, company events, seminars, or networking events.It would be a plus if you also possess:
Experience delivering AI-enabled enterprise SaaS products, particularly on Microsoft Azure.Experience creating shared AI platforms, evaluation infrastructure, or internal developer tooling used by multiple teams.Familiarity with enterprise data governance and compliance requirements;
food, beverage, or supplements industry experience is a plus.Why you’ll want to join us:
TraceGains offers a fully remote work environment, flexible paid time off available on your date of hire, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, paid parental leave, a 401(k) plan with company match, company-paid volunteer days, and opportunities to grow your career and advance from within.TraceGains is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s global network, you join a culture where purpose meets possibility and where your work has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources TM and building rewarding careers along the way.TraceGains provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Employment is subject to applicable work authorization and background-screening requirements.The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.The compensation range for this role is $190k - $220k CAD/year. This job is also eligible for bonus pay.We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, and medical/dental/vision insurance to eligible employees.Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allowable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.Virtual interviews may be transcribed using an AI-enabled note-taking tool to assist with interview documentation. Hiring decisions are made by human interviewers.This position is for a new role within our team.At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.Unsolicited Assistance
We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.
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