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Senior Agentic AI Software Backend & Platform Engineer

Kitchener, ON, CanadaFull-timeCA$125k–CA$175k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the development and scaling of an Agentic AI platform to build industrial-grade AI agent systems that augment and automate real business workflows in industrial operations.

Role type

Senior IC backend & AI platform engineer

Builds

Scalable backend services, AI orchestration and execution systems, data pipelines, and APIs for agent interaction

Domain

Industrial operations software, manufacturing engineering, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python backend development, microservices architecture, LLMs, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, agent application frameworks, LLM model fine-tuning, vector databases, knowledge graphs, cloud services, containerization, CI/CD, distributed systems, Docker, Kubernetes, NVIDIA AI stack

Preferred skills

Multi-agent systems, AI observability tools, enterprise AI governance, regulated industries, OPC-UA, MQTT, MES, SAP, Kafka, low-code integration

Technologies

Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, NVIDIA AI stack (NeMo, NIM, Triton, Nemotron, NeMo Guardrails), Langfuse, Kafka, SAP, OPC-UA, MQTT

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable backend services for agentic AI orchestration; own AI pipelines including RAG tuning and evaluation; build data ingestion and transformation pipelines; implement APIs for agent orchestration; drive platform hardening and observability; collaborate on CI/CD and cloud infrastructure; optimize compute and inference costs; establish governance and compliance processes; troubleshoot production issues.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC