R&D Head – Agentic AI , Kitchener, Ontario
Core
Lead Canada's Agentic AI team to build secure, scalable, customer-ready industrial platforms and ship real agent capabilities fast.
Role type
Senior IC/Lead R&D Team Leader (Agentic AI)
Builds
Scalable industrial AI platforms, agent capabilities, and autonomous operations software for manufacturing
Domain
Industrial automation, manufacturing systems, and industrial IoT
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Engineering management, technical leadership, LLMs, agentic AI architecture, Python, distributed systems, cloud platforms, modern AI/ML tooling, open-source AI frameworks
Preferred skills
Building agentic AI systems, multi-agent frameworks, industrial automation background, 0-to-1 product delivery
Technologies
Python, LangChain, LangGraph, Nemo Platform, cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Recruit and develop AI/ML engineers, drive design and delivery of agent capabilities, align team with shared platform standards, participate in architecture reviews, ensure quality and reliability of agent systems, bridge research and production, collaborate with global R&D teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership