Senior AI Engineer: Production ML, MLOps & Mentorship

Nutrien Ltd.; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement matching

Tuition assistance

Volunteer time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Nutrien in Saskatoon, Canada seeks a senior hands-on technical builder in AI Engineering to translate business opportunities into production-ready AI solutions. You will mentor junior engineers, review code, and shape scalable AI platforms.

You will partner with the AI Architect to ensure robust, responsible AI deployments and reusable assets across the enterprise. Responsibilities span from design to production ownership, with strong emphasis on MLOps, CI/CD, and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software/ML engineering with 3+ years delivering production AI/ML or GenAI systems.
• Deep Python plus modern AI stack: LLM orchestration frameworks, vector databases, feature stores, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks
• Strong cloud engineering background (model hosting, AI development environments, containerized deployment) and MLOps/CI-CD depth
• Demonstrated record of leading code reviews and mentoring engineers in a delivery team
• Proven ability to work shoulder-to-shoulder with architects to take a pattern from design to production

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy machine learning, generative AI, and agentic solutions - RAG, knowledge assistants, enterprise copilots, predictive analytics, and workflow automation agents
• Act as the primary code reviewer for the AI engineering team, owning code quality standards, review turnaround, and merge approval for AI solution and agent codebases
• Provide structured mentorship and technical coaching to junior AI Engineers, AI Cloud Developers, and contractor developers - pairing, design walkthroughs, and skill development plans
• Partner day to day with the AI Architect, converting architecture patterns and reference designs into working, scalable implementations and feeding practical build constraints back into architecture decisions
• Own technical solution delivery end to end: solution design input, experimentation, production deployment, and post-deployment technical ownership
• Implement MLOps and deployment standards - CI/CD for AI, model monitoring, retraining, version and lifecycle management - in partnership with AI Platforms & Operations
• Contribute to reusable AI assets: shared prompts, AI frameworks, enterprise AI services, and agent orchestration patterns
• Apply Responsible AI guardrails and technical standards in every solution delivered

Skills

Python

LLM orchestration

Vector databases

Feature stores

RAG pipelines

Agent frameworks

Cloud engineering

CI/CD

Job description

Nutrien in Saskatoon, Canada seeks a senior hands-on technical builder in AI Engineering to translate business opportunities into production-ready AI solutions. You will mentor junior engineers, review code, and shape scalable AI platforms.

You will partner with the AI Architect to ensure robust, responsible AI deployments and reusable assets across the enterprise. Responsibilities span from design to production ownership, with strong emphasis on MLOps, CI/CD, and governance.