Member of Technical Staff – Sovereign AI

About the role

Design and implement novel research ideas, ship state‑of‑the‑art models to production, and maintain deep connections to academia and the government. We have one of the highest ratios of compute to engineers in the world. We do not delineate strongly between engineering and research.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and scale agentic AI systems for serving mission‑critical use cases.
• Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our super‑compute and data infrastructure.
• Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.
• Execute across the full AI stack and ship products to serve public interest.

Required profile

• Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance (required for this role).
• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks.
• Experience training, evaluating, and using (as an end‑user) large language models.
• Experience using large‑scale distributed (GPU) LLM training strategies.
• Bonus: paper at top‑tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP.

Required skills

• Python
• Machine learning frameworks
• GPU‑based distributed training for large language models

What we offer

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, and pension scheme.
• 100% parental‑leave top‑up for up to 6 months for either parent.
• Six weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).
• Budget for traveling to other offices and an annual company offsite.
• $500 home‑office stipend to set up your workspace.
• Co‑working benefit for remote employees to work alongside others in their city.