Role: Senior AI Engineer | Data & AI Technology
Location: Toronto, ON or Dallas, TX (Onsite 3–4 days/week)
Employment Type: Direct Hire

 

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operationalize enterprise-grade AI solutions in a highly regulated environment. This role provides deep technical leadership across AI engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and governance-by-design, ensuring AI solutions are secure, scalable, auditable, and production-ready.

You will own complex AI systems end-to-end, influence platform standards, and act as a technical authority for AI delivery—bridging experimentation and enterprise production while meeting strict risk, privacy, and regulatory expectations.

Key Skills & Experience

• AI Tooling
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Key Platforms / Technologies

• Azure (Required)
• GCP (Nice to have)
• Databricks
• Terraform

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Act as a technical lead for AI engineering initiatives and own design decisions for complex AI solutions
• Define reference architectures, reusable patterns, and AI development “golden paths”
• Review and approve AI solution designs for alignment with platform and governance standards

Production AI Engineering (Build, Deploy, Run)

• Design and implement production-grade AI services and pipelines (batch and real-time)
• Deploy models as scalable services (APIs, jobs, agents) with SLAs, monitoring, and alerting
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production AI system issues

Governance-by-Design

• Embed governance directly into engineering workflows including:
  • Security and access controls
  • Data classification and handling
  • Model risk management
  • Privacy and consent controls
  • Responsible AI practices
  • Auditability and traceability
• Partner with risk, compliance, and architecture teams to ensure regulatory alignment

Generative AI & Advanced AI Capabilities

• Implement GenAI patterns including RAG, embeddings, semantic search, and agents
• Ensure governed access to approved data sources
• Define evaluation and monitoring for GenAI outputs

Enterprise MLOps / LLMOps

• Build automated ML/LLM delivery pipelines (train, evaluate, approve, deploy)
• Establish model versioning and reproducibility standards
• Improve time-to-production through automation and governance

Mentorship & Engineering Excellence

• Mentor engineers and elevate AI engineering best practices
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of cloud engineering experience
• 5+ years building AI/ML systems
• Strong Python and SQL proficiency
• Hands-on experience deploying AI solutions in cloud environments (Azure required, GCP preferred)
• Experience with production-grade AI systems (reliability, scalability, observability, security)
• Experience working in regulated industries (financial services, banking, healthcare, etc.)
• Knowledge of model risk management and audit requirements
• Experience with enterprise MLOps / LLMOps tooling
• Experience designing AI platform capabilities (not just individual models)

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

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