1 day ago
Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and own a domain-specific AI agent from design through release and field operation.
- Design robust LLM function-calling and tool interfaces for vehicle tasks such as climate control, music, and navigation.
- Deploy a shared agent codebase across cloud and edge environments.
- Integrate prompting, retrieval, tool selection, and non-linear conversation handling into product behavior.
- Maintain quality through automated testing, behavioral evaluation, and reduction of production defects.
- Use and advance an agentic engineering workflow with AI coding agents.
- Partner with product teams to translate user-experience goals into agent behavior.
Requirements
- Experience building and owning a production service through ongoing operation and the consequences of design decisions.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Experience using LLMs as application building blocks, including prompting, tool access, and evaluation of nondeterministic behavior.
- Ability to write tests, conduct thoughtful reviews, and identify difficult design issues early.
- Comfort working on an evolving platform where documentation may be incomplete.
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and explain technical trade-offs to non-specialists.
- Preferred: deep TypeScript or Node.js expertise.
- Preferred: experience adapting language models through fine-tuning or reinforcement learning.
- Preferred: exposure to embedded or edge constraints such as limited memory, no network access, and strict latency requirements.
- Preferred: experience with voice technologies, conversational interfaces, or automotive software.
- Preferred: hands-on use of AI coding agents in a personal development workflow.
Benefits
- Salary range of $97,000 CAD to $160,000 CAD.
- Annual bonus opportunity.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Company contribution to the Canadian RRSP.
- Equity awards for certain positions and levels.
- Remote or hybrid work available depending on the position.
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About Cerence
Cerence builds automotive voice and conversational AI—speech recognition, natural language understanding, text-to-speech, and generative assistants—embedded in vehicles for automakers and transportation OEMs. Spun out of Nuance in 2019 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the public company (NASDAQ: CRNC) licenses software and services for in-car infotainment and HMI. Its technology ships in over 500 million vehicles, with customers including brands such as BMW, Audi, Ford, and Daimler.