Staff AI Engineer

🕒 July 14

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $128k - $176.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and implementation of complex ML/AI systems end-to-end, owning architecture decisions and driving solutions from research through production at scale • Build and evolve scalable ML platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that support reliable, repeatable model development and deployment across teams • Set the standard for AI-forward engineering, using tools like Claude and Cursor with sophistication and helping the team adopt them effectively • Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to shape AI strategy and align technical direction with business outcomes • Translate complex AI tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities into clear narratives that drive decision-making across technical and non-technical stakeholders • Lead design reviews and technical discussions, raising the bar for engineering rigor and constructive challenge across the team • Define AI architecture and engineering standards, bringing depth on tradeoffs, long-term implications, and responsible AI practices • Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers, multiplying impact through coaching, code reviews, and pairing on hard problems • Take ownership of the most ambiguous and highest-stakes pieces of work, driving them through to production with care for reliability, cost, and safety.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience, with 4+ years focused on AI/ML systems in production and deep hands-on experience with generative AI development • Expert software engineering background (Python or similar) with strong design sensibilities for scalable, maintainable systems • Deep expertise with cloud platforms, including in-depth understanding of AWS services and AWS GenAI offerings • Proven track record designing and shipping complex agentic systems in production environments • Mastery of AI frameworks and orchestration tools • Strong experience with evaluation frameworks and observability tools for LLM apps, including building these capabilities where they don't yet exist • Deep understanding of AI safety, responsible AI principles, prompt injection defenses, and PII handling • Extensive experience building RAG pipelines: chunking strategies, embedding models, vector databases, and advanced retrieval techniques • API design experience, including architecting and integrating with internal and third-party services at scale • Advanced cost optimization expertise: token economics, caching strategies, model routing, quantization • Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments • Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and expert knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.