Lead AI Agent Systems & Telemetry Engineer

Elastic; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible location

Vacation days

Parental leave

Volunteer time

Donation matching

Job summary

Elastic in Ottawa, ON, is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to own the production improvement loop for Context Engine. You will write production code and design evaluation telemetry, influencing agent behavior, tools, and memory management in a hybrid, cross-functional team.

You will work with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to ship changes safely, define telemetry, and drive evaluation-driven product decisions for Elastic’s AI stack.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping AI-driven products on production traffic.
• Experience building agents with state and memory.
• Familiarity with MCP public servers and tools.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the production improvement loop for Context Engine and related agents.
• Write production code and design evaluation telemetry.
• Observe, evaluate, and ship changes safely in production.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers.
• Define safe iteration/rollback for agents and skills.

Skills

AI engineering

Eval-driven development

Telemetry design

Production code

Back-end engineering

Python

TypeScript

Data science collaboration

Product mindset

Tools

Elasticsearch

MCP

LangGraph

Claude Agent SDK

LangChain

Job description

Elastic in Ottawa, ON, is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to own the production improvement loop for Context Engine. You will write production code and design evaluation telemetry, influencing agent behavior, tools, and memory management in a hybrid, cross-functional team.

You will work with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to ship changes safely, define telemetry, and drive evaluation-driven product decisions for Elastic’s AI stack.