AI Engineer: Quantum R&D Automation & Agentic Systems

Xanadu; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

Xanadu in Toronto is seeking an AI Specialist to integrate state‑of‑the‑art AI into our R&D processes, accelerating discovery and automation toward a commercially viable quantum computer.

You will collaborate with world‑leading researchers, engineers, and software developers to build automated workflows, RL environments, and production‑ready code with CI/CD. The base salary range is CAD 140000–190000, plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of ML/Research Engineer experience in a scientific/engineering setting.
• 2+ years in Agentic Systems, RL feedback loops, or large-scale LLM training/deployment.
• Diverse experience with AI agents, context/harness engineering, and knowledge retrieval.
• Strong Software Engineering Skills with physics and linear algebra knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build automated processes and feedback loops for executing complex research tasks at scale with Agentic AI.
• Develop Reinforcement Learning based environments for training reasoning models.
• Collaborate with researchers, theorists, engineers to craft creative solutions for challenges.
• Ensure high-quality production code through automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews.

Skills

ML/Research Engineering

Agentic Systems

Reinforcement Learning

LLM training

AI agents

Software Engineering

Education

BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math

PhD/MSc in CS/Engineering/Physics/Math

Tools

GitHub

Python

AWS

Postgres

Docker

Terraform

Claude

Job description

Xanadu in Toronto is seeking an AI Specialist to integrate state‑of‑the‑art AI into our R&D processes, accelerating discovery and automation toward a commercially viable quantum computer.

You will collaborate with world‑leading researchers, engineers, and software developers to build automated workflows, RL environments, and production‑ready code with CI/CD. The base salary range is CAD 140000–190000, plus equity and benefits.