TekStaff's Client has a current vacancy for a Senior AI Engineer

Required Experience

- 7 years of experience in AI/GEN AI/ML engineering, with strong expertise in Azure cloud environments
- Proven track record delivering end-to-end AI solutions in production
- Experience with Snowflake or modern enterprise data platforms
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field

Core AI & Engineering Capabilities

Generative AI & LLMs

- Hands-on experience building Generative AI applications (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)
- Experience fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs for enterprise use cases
- Designing and implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures:
- Retrieval & embeddings
- Vector search
- Grounding & context orchestration

AI Agents & Orchestration
- Designing and building AI agents using frameworks such as:
- LangChain
- Semantic Kernel
- Azure OpenAI Service
- Azure Open AI
- Experience with:
- Multi-agent systems
- Tool/function calling
- Workflow automation and orchestration

Azure AI & Platform Engineering
- Solid experience across the Azure AI ecosystem:
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure AI Search
- Azure AI Foundry
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Fabric




- Snowflake
- Integration with enterprise services:
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Azure Data Lake
- Azure Event Hub
- Experience deploying scalable solutions on:
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Distributed, cloud-native architectures

Software Engineering
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience building APIs (FastAPI or similar)
- Experience with microservices architecture and enterprise system integration
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

MLOps, LLMOps & Governance

- Experience implementing MLOps / LLMOps practices:
- Azure DevOps, MLflow, CI/CD pipelines
- Model evaluation frameworks
- Monitoring, observability, performance tracking
- Strong understanding of Responsible AI practices:
- Security & data protection
- Risk management & guardrails
- Compliance with enterprise governance standards

TekStaff may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of the applicant screening process. However, applications will also be reviewed by a member of our Recruitment team to ensure a fair and thorough assessment.

📌 Senior AI Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Tekstaff IT Solutions
📍 Toronto