• Title: AI Engineer Lead – Azure GenAI
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Location:
Canada Remote
• Duration: Long term Role Summary Seeking a hands-on AI Engineer Lead to lead engineering and production implementation of enterprise Generative AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role will translate AI architecture into scalable, secure, production-ready solutions while providing technical leadership to the engineering team.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end AI engineering from design and development through testing and production deployment.
• Build LLM, RAG and Agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search.
• Develop RAG pipelines covering chunking, embeddings, vector/hybrid search, retrieval, reranking and grounding.
• Build AI agents, tool/function calling, structured outputs and enterprise API integrations.
• Lead code/design reviews, troubleshoot complex technical issues and ensure production readiness.
• Mentor AI engineers and convert architecture into executable engineering tasks.
• Work closely with AI Architects, Product Owners, business, data, cloud and security teams. Required Experience
• 8+ years of software engineering/application development experience.
• 3+ years of Azure/cloud-native development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience delivering GenAI/LLM, RAG and Agentic AI solutions.
• Experience leading engineering teams and taking AI solutions from PoC to enterprise production. Must-Have Skills
• GenAI / LLMs, RAG and Agentic AI
• Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search
• Python and REST APIs
• Prompt engineering and embeddings
• Vector/hybrid search and retrieval/reranking
• Function/tool calling and structured outputs
• LLM evaluation, grounding and hallucination mitigation
• Guardrails/content safety and context/token management
• Production-grade cloud application development and troubleshooting Preferred Azure Machine Learning, multimodal AI, AI monitoring/observability, Responsible AI, CI/CD and Azure DevOps. Vendor screening focus: Candidates should have robust Azure GenAI + RAG + Agentic AI + Python experience with demonstrated enterprise production implementation. Authorization: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Regards, _______________________ Parthasarathy K Lead Recruiter Work: (phone hidden) Ext: 306,Direct: (phone hidden)
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📌 AI Engineer Lead – Azure GenAI (Canada)
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