Member Of Technical Staff - Sovereign AI
Build and scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical public-interest applications while researching and shipping state-of-the-art models. The role requires strong software engineering, Python and ML framework expertise, LLM experience, distributed GPU training knowledge, and Canadian citizenship with security-clearance eligibility.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical use cases.
- Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on supercomputing and data infrastructure.
- Work with leading researchers in the field.
- Execute across the full AI stack and ship products serving the public interest.
Requirements
- Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance.
- Extremely strong software engineering skills.
- Proficiency in Python and related machine learning frameworks.
- Experience training, evaluating, and using large language models as an end user.
- Experience with large-scale distributed GPU-based LLM training strategies.
Nice-to-haves
- A paper published at a top-tier venue such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, or EMNLP.
Compensation and Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75 or equivalent in local currency.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget.
- RRSP matching.
- 100% parental leave top-up for up to six months for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and wellness, quality time, and workspace improvements.
- Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- Six weeks of paid vacation.
- Budget for travel to other offices when remote, plus an annual company offsite.
- Coworking benefit for employees not near an office.
- $500 home office stipend.
Skills
Python, Machine Learning Frameworks, LLMs, Llm Training, Distributed Computing, Gpu Computing, Supercomputing, Ai Systems, Agentic AI, Model Evaluation
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