We are looking for a passionate and skilled AI engineer who is a technical authority at the domain or business unit level. In this role, you will set the direction for how AI engineering is practiced across multiple teams, define reusable patterns and frameworks, and drive adoption of best practices. You will influence technical roadmaps, mentor senior engineers and leads, and ensure our AI solutions are scalable, reliable and aligned with organizational goals. Operating with broad autonomy, you will shape the evolution of AI engineering within your area, while contributing to the wider engineering community.

Job Responsibilities

- Set the vision and strategy for AI engineering across teams and projects, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Design and promote scalable frameworks, patterns and standards for building and deploying complex and distributed AI systems.
- Anticipate technical and organizational challenges in adopting AI and define approaches to address them.
- Uplift the broader engineering community (SMEs and generalists) by driving knowledge sharing, capability building and adoption of AI engineering best practices.
- Act as a thought partner to product and business leaders, shaping roadmaps with an understanding of AI opportunities and risks.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches, guiding their responsible adoption across the organization.
- Provide expert guidance on implementing guardrails at an organizational level.
- Provide architectural oversight on complex or high-impact AI initiatives, ensuring they are robust, cost-effective and sustainable.
- Represent the organization’s AI engineering expertise in external forums, partnerships or strategic initiatives.




- Improve end-to-end GenAI application performance, accuracy and cost, from model training and fine-tuning, to application-level optimization techniques.

Qualifications

Technical Skills

- Mastery of Python and software engineering at scale, setting standards for CI/CD, testing, observability and maintainability across teams.
- Recognized track record of architecting scalable AI systems and defining reusable frameworks and patterns.
- Thought leadership in applying GenAI and agentic frameworks across domains.
- Deep expertise in large-scale RAG systems and advanced information retrieval architectures.
- Significant experience deploying AI systems across cloud platforms with complex infrastructure, containers and orchestration.
- Define organizational standards for LLMOps, monitoring and reliability.
- Advanced experience with model customization, fine-tuning and applying ML/NLP frameworks to solve complex problems.

Professional Skills

- Possesses executive presence with the ability to influence engineering culture and strategy at a company-wide level.
- Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing expert guidance on technical and strategic decisions.
- Recognized as a thought leader in the industry, with a track record of publications, patents or conference presentations.




- Proven ability to mentor and develop leaders and experts, building a robust technical pipeline for the organization.

Accommodations

Thoughtworks is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observances, in accordance with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, participate in interviews, or otherwise engage in the hiring process, you may request an accommodation by completing this form or speaking with your recruiter. Requests may be made at any stage of the application or interview process. Once a request is received, Thoughtworks will engage in an interactive process with the applicant to determine an appropriate accommodation. Applicants are not required to disclose medical diagnoses or detailed personal information in order to request an accommodation. All accommodation requests will be handled in a timely, confidential, and respectful manner, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Requesting an accommodation will not negatively affect your consideration for employment. Company prohibits retaliation against any applicant for requesting an accommodation or participating in the accommodation process. Accommodations made during the recruitment process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired. If you are hired by Thoughtworks, and require an accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you may be asked to engage in our reasonable accommodation process.

Salary

$214,000—$344,000 CAD

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📌 Principal AI Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Thoughtworks
📍 Toronto