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Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US. We are currently hiring for a Senior Software Developer Agentic AI Application Development  for our global IT M&A client in the Toronto area.

Role:   Senior Software Developer Agentic AI Application Development

Type: Fulltime, Perm

Salary Range: $100,000 - $130,000 as base depending on overall experience + bonus + vacation + benefits + other great company perks such as AI tooling and AI conference budget.  

Location: Remote - Mississauga, ON, Canada

Remote within the United States or Canada (workday overlap from Pacific to Eastern time zones)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to help pioneer the next generation of agentic applications software systems that leverage autonomous agents, large language models, and adaptive workflows to augment and accelerate human decision-making. In this role, youll design, build, and scale intelligent services and applications that seamlessly blend traditional engineering practices with cutting-edge AI-driven automation.

Youll work in a small, high-impact team that values experimentation, rapid iteration, and quality engineering. This is a chance to shape how agentic applications are built, deployed, and adopted in real-world environments.

Key Responsibilities Agentic Application Development

• Architect, build, and maintain applications that integrate autonomous agents and LLMs into end-to-end workflows.
• Design APIs, services, and event-driven components that allow agents to interact with systems, data, and users effectively.
• Ensure applications are resilient, secure, and adaptable in production environments.

AI-First Engineering

• Pilot and integrate agent frameworks, orchestration layers, and multi-agent systems.
• Automate repetitive tasks including code generation, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Continuously evaluate and incorporate emerging AI tooling.

Agentic Practices & Evangelism

• Define and codify best practices for designing, deploying, and monitoring agentic workflows.
• Coach peers on prompt engineering, guardrails, and safe deployment of autonomous agents.
• Establish patterns for observability, safety, and human-in-the-loop validation.

Technical Leadership

• Set high standards for design, code quality, and testing.
• Conduct architecture reviews and mentor other developers in building AI-powered systems.
• Stay current with research and industry trends in autonomous agents and applied LLMs.

Engineering Excellence

• Deliver high-quality applications with strong reliability, security, and performance.
• Optimize for scalability and cost efficiency in cloud-native environments.
• Own the lifecycle from prototyping to production deployment.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
• Strong background in designing APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed language (Go, Java, C#) and one scripting language (Python, TypeScript, Bash).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated use of AI/LLM tooling in professional or side projects.
• Curiosity and creativity in exploring agentic workflows and autonomous development approaches.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across remote-first teams.

Preferred / Bonus Skills

• Experience with multi-agent frameworks, orchestration tools, or AI-powered application platforms.
• Knowledge of service-mesh, observability tooling, and policy-as-code.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (Kafka, NATS) and domain-driven design.
• Exposure to safety, ethics, and compliance considerations in AI systems.

Work Environment & Benefits

• Remote-first with optional hub meet-ups; hardware & co-working stipend.
• Flexible core hours (overlap 9 a.m. 3 p.m. ET).
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage in Canada & the U.S.
• Generous vacation, paid learning days, and annual budget for conferences or AI tooling subscriptions.

**Company Overview**
With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. And we're only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.
At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.
Here, we know that you're more than your work. That's why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose - a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you're passionate about our purpose - people -then we can't wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We're united by purpose, inspired by you.
**About the Role:**
We are searching for an exceptionally skilled and visionary Fellow AI Architect with deep expertise in building, deploying, and scaling generative AI applications. As a key individual contributor at the Technical Fellow level, you will drive the architecture, strategy, and development of groundbreaking AI technologies that support our long-term mission.
The Fellow AI Architect will lead the technical vision, strategy, and architectural direction for our GenAI initiatives. As a recognized thought leader, you will help guide the company to stay at the forefront of AI innovation, continuously integrating the latest advancements in generative AI into our products and processes. This role demands a blend of technical depth, visionary thinking, and the ability to influence and elevate company-wide AI practices. You will play a pivotal role in shaping a transformative journey, empowering our organization to harness GenAI in profound ways across all products.
**Responsibilities** :
- Architectural Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the generative AI architecture strategy, ensuring UKG remains at the leading edge of AI innovation. Develop and communicate a cohesive architectural vision that aligns with business goals, enabling the seamless integration of GenAI capabilities across our product suite.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical visionary for generative AI, providing hands-on guidance in advanced methods (e.g., transformer models, diffusion models, GANs) and setting technical standards that ensure scalability, security, and efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with executive leadership, product management, data science, and engineering teams to establish and prioritize GenAI initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on requirements and objectives, driving the infusion of AI capabilities across products.
- Innovation & Research: Conduct hands-on, advanced research in generative AI, staying current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices. Lead the exploration and implementation of state-of-the-art GenAI techniques to enhance product value and drive a competitive edge.
- Mentorship & Culture Building: Mentor and influence senior engineering leaders, fostering a culture of AI excellence, thought leadership, and continuous innovation. Champion best practices in AI/ML development, CI/CD processes, and quality assurance to ensure high standards across the organization.
- Community Engagement: Act as an ambassador for generative AI internally and externally, representing UKG in the AI community through publications, speaking engagements, and industry forums.
- Scalable Solutions: Oversee the deployment of large-scale AI models, ensuring they are optimized for performance, cost, and resource efficiency in production environments. Establish guidelines for high-quality, production-ready AI/ML systems that can scale with business needs.
- Governance & Standards: Define and enforce development methodologies, CI/CD standards, and architectural guidelines for AI solutions. Maintain documentation of architectural decisions and technical roadmaps, ensuring a sustainable foundation for future AI-driven capabilities.
**Qualifications** :
- Educational Background: PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience: 12+ years in software development and AI, with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in generative AI, NLP, or related fields. Proven expertise in architecting and deploying large-scale AI/ML systems in production environments.
- Technical Proficiency: Expert-level skills in programming languages (e.g., Python, Java) and AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch). Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and MLOps practices for large-scale model training and deployment.
- AI Methodologies: In-depth knowledge of generative AI methodologies, including transformer models, diffusion models, GANs, large language models, and multi-modal architectures. Familiarity with NLP and machine learning algorithms, such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, and clustering methods.
- Industry Influence: Recognized thought leader in AI, with a record of publications in top-tier AI conferences/journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR) and a strong network within the AI research community.
- Problem-Solving & Strategy: Exceptional problem-solving skills and a proven ability to influence and implement long-term AI-driven strategic initiatives.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Compliance & Responsible AI: Experience working in high-compliance environments or with privacy-preserving AI techniques. Strong familiarity with trends in responsible AI, model interpretability, and ethical AI practices.
- Optimization Expertise: Proven record of optimizing AI models for cost-efficiency at scale through model compression, distillation, and efficient deployment strategies.
- Cloud & DevOps Knowledge: Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipeline automation (e.g., Terraform, GitHub Actions).
**Where we're going**
UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!
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Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At SCIEX, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives-and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.
As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The AI Developer plays a pivotal role in our global team, implementing our own AI projects and leveraging existing AI technologies to deliver innovative solutions that enhance our products and services. This role not only involves technical expertise but also requires a deep understanding of business needs to translate complex data into clear, impactful visual narratives.
This position is part of the Global IT Team servicing SCIEX, Molecular Devices, and the Life Sciences Platform.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
+ Lead, manage, design, develop, and implement end-to-end AI projects from conception to deployment, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into AI solutions.
+ Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment of AI solutions.
+ Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
+ Develop and maintain documentation for AI models, processes, and workflows.
The essential requirements of the job include:
+ Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
+ Minimum of 5 years of experience in AI and Azure.
+ Strong programming skills in languages such as Python or JavaScript.
+ Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure to support model training, evaluation, and deployment.
+ Proficient in Azure Cognitive Services (Language, Vision, Speech, Decision APIs), Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Search, and Azure Bot Services, with experience designing, deploying, and managing AI solutions within the Azure ecosystem.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
+ Familiarity with containers / orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or Azure equivalents), CI/CD, versioning, model deployment.
SCIEX, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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Join Manulife and be part of an exceptionally dedicated team where your work ethic will determine the success of our innovative solutions. Apply now to compete at the forefront of generative AI and financial technology!
At Manulife, we offer a collaborative environment where you will craft, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications to support internal teams and client-facing platforms.
**Position Responsibilities:**
+ Design, build, and deploy production AI applications end to end, focusing on LLM-powered services for chat, Q&A, summarization, extraction, and content generation.
+ Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs, model serving layers, and containerized inference services with observability and monitoring.
+ Create robust data ingestion pipelines: chunking, metadata, embedding generation, indexing, and freshness strategies.
+ Ensure data privacy, PII protection, content filtering, policy enforcement, and auditability to meet compliance requirements (e.g., FINRA, SEC).
+ Optimize performance and cost through batching, caching, autoscaling, and efficient token usage.
+ Collaborate with domain and product teams to transform use cases into measurable, production-ready AI features; communicate progress, trade-offs, and results to collaborators.
+ Translate ambiguous problems into defined AI solutions with clear SLAs, SLOs, and success metrics.
+ Implement safety guardrails: filters, prompt policies, tool/function constraints, and incident logging.
+ Provide reusable components, SDKs, and reference architectures to accelerate adoption across teams.
+ Document data lineage, retention, and security controls; participate in compliance reviews and audits.
+ Collaborate with financial domain experts to understand complex use cases in wealth management, retirement planning, and client servicing.
+ Work closely with data scientists, product managers, and engineering teams to translate the latest advancements in generative AI into practical, production-ready applications.
+ Regularly involve collaborators: collect needs, explain technical choices, and convert outcomes into business value.
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
+ 3+ years building production ML/AI systems with deployed services.
+ Strong Python skills and experience with LLM frameworks.
+ Hands-on with cloud platforms, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
+ Practical experience with embeddings, vector stores, and retrieval design.
+ Experience building secure APIs and inference services with monitoring and observability.
+ Strong SQL skills for analysis, data validation, and extraction from enterprise stores.
+ Understanding of latency/cost trade-offs and optimization techniques.
+ Strong communication abilities and background in partnering with non-technical customers.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
+ Familiarity with enterprise architecture, APIs, and secure software design in regulated environments.
+ Strong data engineering skills for ETL/ELT, schema design, and metadata management.
+ Exposure to multimodal pipelines.
When you join our team:
+ We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
+ We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
+ As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
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Job Description

Job Description

**We welcome all people based in Toronto, ON to apply. This job is a hybrid role from this location. **

We are looking for AI/ML developers to build cutting-edge AI systems that support our mission of transforming how organizations understand and improve the Employee Experience. Join us as one of the founding members of our new Toronto team.

What You’ll Work On

Build AI that drives real impact

• Develop AI agents that turn insights into action — from conversational listening to AI coaching that's proven to drive change at scale
• Build and deploy NLP models that analyze employee feedback
• Develop our agent platform, making it easier to build, test, and deploy new agent capabilities

Ship fast, learn faster

• Work with cross-functional teams including people from product engineering, data engineering, and software engineering to integrate AI into production systems
• Follow a rapid iterative process that integrates feedback to move from idea, to prototype, to real world use case
• Document and share knowledge, insights, and learnings with the larger team

Stay at the forefront of AI

• Engage with and lead our thinking on AI by staying current with advancements in the field
• Attend conferences, workshops, and industry events
• Bring emerging ideas back to the team and explore their application to employee experience

What We’re Looking For

Core requirements

• 3+ years building and shipping AI, ML, or NLP systems
• Strong Python programming and ability to write clean, maintainable code
• Comfortable working with LLMs — fine-tuning, prompting, and building products around them
• Experience with modern machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
• Experience working with data at scale (SQL, data warehouses, cloud platforms)

What makes you stand out

• You've built AI products that users depend on at a SaaS company
• You can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical teammates
• You're comfortable with the full lifecycle of a system built on AI — from experimentation to production monitoring

Good to Know

• We use OpenAI, AWS, Snowflake, and a variety of ML tools, but we care more about your ability to learn than any specific tool experience

Why Join Us

• Work on AI that makes a real impact on people's work lives
• Collaborate with a team that values innovation and experimentation
• Opportunity to shape the future of employee experience technology

We are a team built on purpose, not perfection.
The game is changing, and we're writing the new playbook. Our goals are ambitious, and we know that building the future requires diverse perspectives and skills. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.

We're looking for people who are accountable, customer-centric, and innovative. We believe that talent thrives when we empower leaders to grow and evolve. So, apply anyway. You might be just the right person for this role or another opportunity on our team.

Benefits:
We Care About The Whole Person