Principal AI Research Scientist

Swim Recruiting; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company in Toronto is seeking a Principal AI Research Scientist to prototype and lead innovative research at the forefront of agentic AI. This hybrid position involves extensive collaboration and requires candidates with deep expertise in machine learning, agentic systems, and a strong publication record.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing and training LLMs.
• Strong publication record at top-tier ML conferences.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and ML stacks.

Responsibilities

• Lead cutting-edge research in LLMs and agent orchestration.
• Build rapid prototypes and run experiments.
• Own the data strategy and lead a senior team.

Skills

LLMs experience

ML systems development

Python

RAG pipelines

Agentic systems understanding

Publication in ML conferences

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

LlamaIndex

LangChain

Weaviate

FAISS

Job description

A permanent Principal AI Research Scientist with a groundbreaking AI company located in Toronto with a hybrid work environment.

• Principal AI Research Scientist, the first hire for this role.
• Onsite work in Toronto, Ontario
• Exciting opportunity to work at the frontier of agentic AI - shaping how the world interacts with intelligent systems .

What & Why :

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal AI Research Scientist to join our senior team. You will define and architect the foundations of this new frontier. You’ll lead cutting-edge research in LLMs, VLMs, RAG, and agent orchestration - designing and coordinating autonomous agents with memory, reasoning, and personality that respond to rich multimodal prompts, understand creative intent, and collaborate to generate high-quality, context-aware creative output. You will be building out rapid prototyping, running research execution and experimentation, owning the data strategy and leading a senior team.

Who :

An early-stage team is bringing on someone curious and sharp to help shape something ambitious at the intersection of creativity and AI technology. It's still flying a bit under the radar, but the direction is bold—and the impact could be significant. This role is located in Toronto, Ontario and is hybrid 3 days a week in office. They are still securing office space so will be remote to start.

You :

• Extensive experience developing and training LLMs and MLLMs, including custom architecture and alignment.
• Expertise in RAG pipelines and vector databases (e.g., LlamaIndex, LangChain, Weaviate, FAISS).
• Deep understanding of agentic systems : A2A protocols, orchestration, contextual memory, autonomy.
• Advanced Python and ML stack proficiency (e.g., PyTorch, JAX), with experience building scalable ML pipelines.
• Experience shipping multimodal ML systems that interface with real users and services.
• Strong publication record at top-tier ML conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL).

Compensation :

Up to $250,000 annual base salary + equity.

Next Steps :

If the sound of this opportunity excites you, and you’re confident that it’s a good fit for your experience and career goals, then we’d love to hear from you! Please send your updated resume to us by applying to this posting and one of our awesome team of recruiters will be in touch /

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