Valtech

Jr. AI Native Engineer

Valtech
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15 hours ago
Remote, CanadaEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship AI-native applications and digital experiences.
  • Develop applications using large language models, generative AI APIs, and agentic architectures.
  • Write high-quality software using Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or comparable modern languages.
  • Build RAG and knowledge-retrieval solutions using embeddings, semantic search, vector databases, and enterprise data.
  • Experiment with AI agents, tool and function calling, structured outputs, orchestration, and multi-step workflows.
  • Integrate AI solutions with APIs, databases, existing platforms, and enterprise systems.
  • Rapidly prototype ideas, test assumptions, and turn experiments into scalable solutions.
  • Develop evaluation and testing approaches for AI systems, considering quality, accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost.
  • Apply engineering practices involving security, privacy, responsible AI, observability, and human oversight.
  • Share learning and contribute to Valtech’s evolving AI engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years of professional software engineering or application development experience.
  • Strong programming experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or another modern programming language.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including application architecture, APIs, testing, debugging, version control, and CI/CD.
  • Hands-on experience building with generative AI through client work, production applications, prototypes, internal innovation, hackathons, open-source contributions, or substantial personal projects.
  • Practical experience with LLMs and model APIs, including prompting, context management, structured outputs, and model selection.
  • Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, semantic search, or vector databases.
  • Exposure to agents, function/tool calling, or AI workflow orchestration.
  • Experience connecting applications to APIs, data sources, databases, and cloud services.
  • Ability to distinguish between an AI demo and a dependable AI product.
  • Demonstrated habit of exploring emerging technology and turning experimentation into tangible results.
  • Preferred experience building AI applications, agents, copilots, developer tools, RAG solutions, or multi-agent workflows.
  • Preferred familiarity with Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch, pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
  • Experience creating evaluations or testing approaches for AI outputs is welcomed.

Benefits

  • Continuous learning, professional growth, and opportunities to experiment with emerging AI capabilities.
  • Collaboration with engineering, data, experience, and strategy teams on meaningful client and business challenges.
  • A global, borderless framework supporting collaboration across locations.
  • A workplace culture emphasizing creativity, diversity, autonomy, and the values of share, care, and dare.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureElasticsearchGoogle CloudJavaScriptPythonTypeScript

Categories

Valtech

About Valtech

5,001-10,000 employees

Valtech provides digital consulting and engineering services to large enterprises, delivering customer experience design, commerce platforms, data/AI solutions, and transformation programs. It works across sectors such as retail, financial services, manufacturing, mobility, health, and travel, offering strategy, design, build, and managed services. Founded in 1993, Valtech is a global company privately held under Kharis Capital.

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