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Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and own a domain-specific AI agent from design through release and field deployment.
- Design robust LLM function-calling interfaces for vehicle actions such as climate control, music playback, and navigation.
- Develop a shared-codebase agent that operates in both 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 defect reduction.
- Work within an agentic engineering workflow using AI coding agents and collaborate with product teams on user experience goals.
Requirements
- Experience building and owning a production service long enough to understand the consequences of design decisions.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience using LLMs as building blocks through prompting, tool integration, and evaluation of non-deterministic 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 experience with TypeScript or Node.js, language-model fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, embedded or edge constraints, voice or conversational interfaces, automotive software, and AI coding agents.
Benefits
- Base salary range of CAD 97,000 to CAD 160,000, with 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 and/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.