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Senior Applied Research Scientist

Toronto, Ontario, ca💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-10 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and build the agent execution harness (orchestration layer) enabling AI agents to reason over enterprise data, manage multi-agent workflows, and execute actions reliably at Fortune 500 scale.

Role type

Senior Applied Research Scientist (Agentic AI Infrastructure)

Builds

The agent harness, orchestration runtime, multi-agent coordination systems, and evaluation frameworks for production AI agents.

Domain

Enterprise AI / Agentic Systems / Large Language Model Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Generative AI product ownership, LLM failure modes and context constraints, prompt engineering and versioning, eval engineering, distributed systems, API design, testing discipline, cost/latency tradeoff analysis.

Preferred skills

Multi-agent coordination patterns (A2A, MCP), agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), AI observability tooling, cloud-native infrastructure.

Technologies

LLMs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, distributed systems, API design.

Responsibilities

Design and build the agent execution harness; own runtime fault tolerance, latency, and throughput; instrument the harness with tracing and cost attribution; build prompt management systems; design evaluation frameworks; integrate and abstract over frontier LLMs; define system boundaries for agent logic.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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