Senior Applied AI Engineer
Nesto Cloud23 days ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead major AI features and projects end-to-end while managing delivery and quality trade-offs.
- Design and optimize agentic AI workflows combining deterministic rules, LLM perception, embedding search, and structured output extraction.
- Build and own golden-set, offline, and online evaluation pipelines with regression tracking.
- Shape architecture for the AI agent platform and maintain technical standards through code reviews and collaborative problem-solving.
- Use AI development tooling and agent harnesses to accelerate code delivery.
- Mentor peers and collaborate with cross-functional teammates on delivery timelines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong backend and API skills.
- Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with LLMs, preferably in production using prompting, RAG, or structured extraction.
- Background in data science, data analysis, or statistics.
- Experience with model implementation, monitoring, and evaluation across the full lifecycle.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, design patterns, and agile practices.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development tooling and agent-based workflows.
- Experience leading projects or serving in a technical lead role.
- Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, and document intelligence pipelines is preferred.
- Experience managing production AI trade-offs such as cost and latency is preferred.
- Experience in regulated domains such as OSFI E-23 compliance is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first role open to candidates anywhere in Canada, with the option to work from home or from offices nationwide.
- Competitive compensation, performance incentives where applicable, and recognition programs.
- Medical, dental, vision, health and wellness spending accounts where applicable, telemedicine, employee assistance programs, and mental health support.
- Four weeks of vacation, floater days, and statutory holidays.
- RRSP matching.
- Enhanced maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
- Education assistance, mentorship, training, and career opportunities across Nesto Group.
- Modern technology, collaborative teams, and professional resources.
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About Nesto Cloud
Nesto Cloud builds a cloud-native, end-to-end mortgage technology platform for banks, credit unions, and commercial real estate lenders, combining automation, proprietary intelligence, and BPO services. It sells B2B software and outsourced operations that support the full lending lifecycle with real-time compliance and integrations. Headquartered in Montreal, it operates within the Nesto Group alongside CMLS Financial, which reports over $73B CAD in mortgages under management across 12 Canadian offices.