AI Engineer - LLM Applications

About the role

MicroAgility is hiring an AI Engineer in Toronto, Ontario for a 6-month contract (1 year) at CAD $105 per hour. You will design, build and deploy AI applications powered by large language models, retrieval systems and traditional machine learning, working closely with data, cloud and product teams to integrate AI into enterprise platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered applications using LLMs, RAG pipelines and vector search.
• Integrate AI services into enterprise systems, APIs and workflows.
• Build prompt libraries, evaluation sets and testing frameworks to measure model quality.
• Deploy and monitor models in production using containerised infrastructure and cloud services.
• Work with data engineers, product managers and business stakeholders to turn requirements into working solutions.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, playbooks and internal AI enablement materials.

Required profile

• 4+ years of software or ML engineering experience, with hands-on production LLM work.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication.

Required skills

• Strong Python, with FastAPI, Flask or similar backend frameworks.
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph or similar orchestration libraries.
• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector) and embedding models.
• Deployment on AWS, Azure or GCP using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Prompt engineering, evaluation and guardrails.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation.
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects for high-profile clients.
• A collaborative, inclusive and supportive work environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.