Staff AI Engineer: Production ML & Agentic Systems (Remote)

safe; British Columbia; Remote; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Learning budget

Flexible working hours

Paid vacation and seasonal days off

RRSP/TFSA matching

Job summary

Safe Software seeks a Staff AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems across the organization. You will manage the full AI lifecycle from data prep to monitoring, working on generative AI, retrieval, and agentic systems.

Lead architecture and enforce engineering standards for complex production implementations. You will collaborate with AI Enablement to establish scalable platforms, governance practices, and secure, responsible AI adoption across teams globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years across software engineering and AI/ML, including 3+ years building and operating AI/ML systems in production at scale.
• Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python or comparable backend technologies.
• Experience developing, adapting, fine-tuning, evaluating, deploying, and monitoring AI or machine learning models.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, evaluate, deploy, and operate end-to-end AI/ML systems in production, spanning data preparation, model development, training or fine-tuning, integration, application logic, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Architect and build agentic and multi-agent systems, including orchestration, task routing, shared state, tool use, agent handoffs, human oversight, and failure recovery.
• Design and build enterprise knowledge and retrieval systems across structured and unstructured data, using data pipelines, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, metadata, and access-controlled retrieval.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, data platforms, and governed tools.
• Establish automated testing, evaluation, and observability practices covering task success, model and retrieval quality, hallucination risk, tool execution, safety, latency, cost, drift, and regression.

Skills

Python

AI/ML in production

Generative AI

LLMs & retrieval

System design

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Databricks

REST APIs

Job description

Safe Software seeks a Staff AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems across the organization. You will manage the full AI lifecycle from data prep to monitoring, working on generative AI, retrieval, and agentic systems.

Lead architecture and enforce engineering standards for complex production implementations. You will collaborate with AI Enablement to establish scalable platforms, governance practices, and secure, responsible AI adoption across teams globally.