Senior Software Developer - AI (Job Req #2026-038)

Ross Video; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Ottawa seeks a passionate developer to enhance AI capabilities by designing and implementing MCP components. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with MCP servers/tools, expertise in C++, Python, and Go, and a systems mindset. The role offers a collaborative environment and opportunities for continuous learning and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous paid time off

Fitness/wellness allowance

Employee share ownership program

Development support

Social activities and events

Qualifications

• Hands-on MCP experience, designing or extending MCP servers/tools.
• Strong grasp of agentic systems patterns, no framework lock-in required.
• Experience with gRPC, REST, WebSockets, Webhooks, and MQTT.
• Comfort with concurrency, streaming I/O, memory/CPU profiling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement MCP components and author new servers/tools.
• Build agentic features such as planners and evaluation loops.
• Develop reliable backends and microservices in C++, Go, and Python.
• Integrate vector search and structured knowledge for LLMs.

Skills

MCP experience

C++

Python

Go

gRPC

REST

WebSockets

MQTT

Job description

Why Work at Ross Video?

We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

Job overview

At Ross Research Labs, we’re pushing the limits of AI for real-time systems — blending agentic intelligence with Model Context Protocol (MCP) to bridge automation, control, and creativity. We design systems that think, coordinate, and act across distributed environments — and we’re looking for a developer who’s passionate about turning these concepts into reality. You’ll design and create production‑grade AI features end‑to‑end, with a strong focus on agentic systems and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You’ll help us design and build MCP servers/tools that expose capabilities, context, and control surfaces to agents and applications. Expect a mix of deep systems work (C++/Go), ML/AI integration (Python), and robust service/API engineering (gRPC/REST/WebSockets/Webhooks/MQTT).

Who you report to: Director, Ross Research Labs/AI

What we offer

Ross offers competitive salaries, comprehensive health plans, and several perks to help you perform at your best. Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, an employee share ownership program, development support, and a ton of fun social activities and events! Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we've got an energizing environment here.

What the job is all about

• Design & implement MCP components: author new MCP servers/tools, schemas, and adapters; define capabilities, resources, and prompts; harden auth, routing, and observability.
• Build agentic features: implement planners, tool‑use flows, state management, retries/guardrails, and evaluation loops without tying us to any single framework.
• Create production services: develop reliable backends and microservices in C++, Go, and Python with clean interfaces and strong contracts.
• API engineering: design and consume gRPC and REST services; implement WebSockets, Webhooks, and MQTT for streaming and event‑driven interactions.
• Data & context plumbing: integrate vector search, RAG, and structured knowledge to extend domain knowledge for generic LLMs; maintain efficient context budgets while optimizing latency and cost.
• Develop intelligent content classification workflows across video, audio, and text, leveraging LLMs, VLMs, and ML models with contextual metadata to enable semantic and contextual understanding, tagging, and retrieval.
• Performance & reliability: profiling, optimize inference and tool calls, add tracing/metrics, and design graceful degradation/failover.
• Security & safety: enforce security for MCP tools, and apply content/behavioral guardrails.
• Code quality & teamwork: write tests, reviews, and docs; mentor peers; keep the bar high for maintainability.

Who you are

• Hands‑on MCP experience: you’ve designed or extended MCP servers/tools (or similar plugin/tooling protocols); you understand capabilities, resources, prompts, sessions, and transport.
• Agentic systems expertise: strong grasp of patterns like planning, tool orchestration, reflection/verification, retries, and evaluation — no framework lock‑in required.
• Languages: strong in C++, Python, and Go. • APIs & realtime: production experience with gRPC, REST, WebSockets, Webhooks, and MQTT.
• Systems mindset: comfort with concurrency, streaming I/O, memory/CPU profiling, and building services that actually scale.
• AI integration: practical experience wiring LLM/VLM capabilities into products (prompting, output schemas, function/tool calling, evaluation).
• DevOps basics: containers, CI/CD, environment isolation, secrets, and observability (logs/metrics/traces).
• Ownership: you design, iterate, measure, and improve.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross! We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.