Founding AI/ML Engineer for Autonomous Research

Uniflow Technologies Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful founding-team equity

+ Hybrid in Toronto (2-3 days/week in‑

Job summary

Uniflow is building an Artificial Research Intelligence platform for autonomous research with full provenance and verifiable results. We are a seed-stage startup seeking a Founding Engineer - AI/ML to create AI agents covering hypothesis generation, literature survey, experiment design, execution, verification, and paper drafting.

Your work will span multiple domains, ensuring auditable claim chains and provenance-backed outputs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in ML/AI with production deployment experience.
• Deep expertise in LLMs - fine-tuning, constrained decoding, prompt engineering, evaluation.
• RAG systems - retrieval architectures, embedding models, re-ranking, corpus management.
• Python - PyTorch/JAX, ML infrastructure (training pipelines, serving, monitoring).

Responsibilities

• Understand the execution substrate, provenance model, and verification pipeline.
• Design the retrieval architecture for literature survey with citation tracking.
• Build initial hypothesis generation pipeline with structured output and validation gates.
• Ship production research agent pipeline integrated with the execution substrate.
• Implement regression verification system for claim validation and provenance traces.

Skills

5+ years ML/AI

LLM expertise

RAG systems

Python (PyTorch/JAX)

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

ML infrastructure

Job description

Uniflow is building an Artificial Research Intelligence platform for autonomous research with full provenance and verifiable results. We are a seed-stage startup seeking a Founding Engineer - AI/ML to create AI agents covering hypothesis generation, literature survey, experiment design, execution, verification, and paper drafting.

Your work will span multiple domains, ensuring auditable claim chains and provenance-backed outputs.