Sr. AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: CAD $120,000 - $150,000
Location: Halifax, NS (Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite)
Hays Client
Senior AI Engineer
What You'll Be Doing
· Design, build, and support secure, cloud-native AI-enabled applications in a production environment.
· Lead the technical design and delivery of complex AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions.
· Develop document intelligence solutions including document classification, information extraction, semantic search, workflow automation, and document understanding capabilities.
· Design scalable AI architectures using foundation models, RAG, agent workflows, and intelligent document processing patterns.
· Evaluate models, prompts, retrieval approaches, and AI frameworks to optimize business outcomes and production performance.
· Implement model evaluation, prompt optimization, fine-tuning, and retrieval strategies to improve solution accuracy and reliability.
· Define data validation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability processes for AI solutions.
· Lead technical incident resolution and drive continuous platform improvements.
· Establish best practices across Python, AI frameworks, AWS, MLOps, CI/CD, and software engineering processes.
· Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration.
· Partner with business stakeholders, data scientists, architects, and engineering teams to deliver scalable AI-driven solutions.
· Drive improvements to architecture, automation, reusable frameworks, and engineering standards.
What You'll Need to Succeed
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
· 6-8 years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years delivering AI/ML or Generative AI solutions in production environments.
· Strong experience designing and deploying AI, machine learning, NLP, document intelligence, and generative AI solutions.
· Hands-on experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, foundation models, prompt engineering, and model evaluation frameworks.
· Experience building intelligent document processing solutions involving OCR, document classification, entity extraction, and workflow automation.
· Strong AWS experience and familiarity with enterprise AI platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar technologies.
· Experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable tools.
· Strong proficiency in Python and machine learning libraries including PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Pandas, and NumPy.
· Experience with relational databases, NoSQL technologies, vector databases, and large-scale data processing.
· Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, security, observability, CI/CD, testing, and production support.
· Experience designing AI testing frameworks, model evaluation processes, retrieval validation, hallucination detection, and monitoring strategies.
· Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
· Financial services or regulated-industry experience is considered an asset.
What You'll Get in Return
You will join a high-performing engineering team focused on delivering innovative AI-powered solutions that drive business value. The role offers exposure to modern AI technologies, cloud-native platforms, document intelligence initiatives, and enterprise-scale machine learning solutions while working alongside experienced technology professionals.
What You Need to Do Now
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