Agentic AI Developer - LLM & Agent Work (Hybrid)

The Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and life insurance

Staff Wellness & Well-being

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion focus

Job summary

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is leading an AI service initiative to design, build, and deploy LLM-powered solutions for paediatric care. You will collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, and engineers to deliver scalable AI agents and data-driven workflows within a healthcare setting.

This hybrid 1-year contract offers the opportunity to work at SickKids on cutting-edge AI projects, with emphasis on equity, inclusivity, and responsible deployment in a world-class pediatric

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, RAG systems, prompt engineering frameworks, and LLM-powered applications.
• Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated commitment and actions in advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, and Microsoft Copilot technologies.
• Develop enterprise-grade RAG solutions that connect AI agents to clinical, research, and operational knowledge sources.
• Build scalable end-to-end AI pipelines including data ingestion, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and governance.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and optimize AI agent solutions to automate workflows and solve high-impact healthcare challenges.

Skills

AI agents

RAG systems

Prompt engineering

LLM-powered applications

Python

Semantic Kernel

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

LlamaIndex

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Copilot

Azure OpenAI Service

OpenAI API

Job description

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is leading an AI service initiative to design, build, and deploy LLM-powered solutions for paediatric care. You will collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, and engineers to deliver scalable AI agents and data-driven workflows within a healthcare setting.

This hybrid 1-year contract offers the opportunity to work at SickKids on cutting-edge AI projects, with emphasis on equity, inclusivity, and responsible deployment in a world-class pediatric