Lead Python AI Engineer

Role: Lead Python AI Engineer

Location: Montreal

Duration: Contract/Fulltime

Job Description:

The Python Al Lead is a builder, and technical leader who helps shapes Al strategy through implementation, sets engineering standards and mentors the Junior AI Team - while remaining actively involved in design reviews, coding, experimentation, and production deployments. The ideal candidate will develop solutions for Launchpad that consume AI Services in AWS and they will need to understand AI, governance, plus have strong Agile organisational skills.

Responsibilities: • Lead a team of Jr AI Engineers • Design, build, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy advanced LLM solutions • Lead the development of frameworks with Langchain • Build agents using AWS Strands SDK, Bedrock AgentCore SDK, and other AWS services • Develop agent logic and troubleshooting using strong Python skills • Implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks for model performance and RAG quality • Create backend services with Python and integrate with platform APIs • Integrate domain-specific RAG pipelines and evaluation metrics • Consume platform services (gateways, MCP tools, observability) following security patterns

Requirements: • Strong experience in Python development and practical knowledge of AI frameworks such as Langchain. • Experience with system integration, API development, and cloud deployment on AWS. • Ability to develop prototypes, improve, and maintain solutions in production environments. • Knowledge of Terraform, python development of Launchpad supporting services, Lumina evolution and AWS services • Development of AI related services for Launchpad and Launchpad backlog.

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