Founding Engineer, AI
Founding Engineer, AI
REMOTE /
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Permanent
This job allows you to work remotely
Job Description
Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge AI technologies? A remarkable opportunity awaits you to lead the development of a groundbreaking system designed to enhance the accuracy of generative AI applications for contact centers. As an experienced AI expert, you will have the chance to shape a product that has never been built before, leveraging your skills to optimize data pipelines and create high-quality datasets.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Define the entire technical architecture for the solution.- Develop and refine processes for cleaning, curating, labeling, and securing datasets for AI bots.
- Engage in hands-on coding to bring the vision to life.
- Recruit, hire, and manage an initial team of talented engineers.
- Cultivate a culture focused on testing and measuring the effectiveness of new methods.
- Manage a development budget of $1M annually.
- Innovate through experimentation, solving complex data challenges using human feedback.
Challenges You'll Tackle:
- Analyze large, complex unstructured datasets to identify conflicts, duplicates, and missing data.- Determine optimal strategies for data cleaning and enrichment.
- Label unannotated data and establish a set of "gold standard" answers.
- Integrate third-party evaluation frameworks to demonstrate data improvement.
- Maintain a clean and ready-to-use dataset for generative AI applications.
Success Metrics:
- Utilize third-party evaluation tools to showcase clear performance enhancements.Potential Scope:
- Design and optimize RAG pipelines for the client's AI application.- Integrate vector search engines like Pinecone, Weaviate, or FAISS for efficient document retrieval.
- Define metrics and KPIs to measure pipeline accuracy and efficiency.
- Document processes for team knowledge sharing.
- Engage in social media for marketing purposes.
- Collaborate with the sales team.
**What's In It For You?**
- Join a startup at its inception, led by a serial founder.
- Receive a significant equity stake.
- Work remotely from anywhere within Canada.
- Contribute to innovative AI products and technologies.
Must Have Skills:
**What You've Done:**
- Experience with zero-to-one startups.
- Background in enterprise software and data.
- Proficiency in AI coding tools
- Expertise in vector databases and retrieval tools.
- Familiarity with data annotation tools and techniques.
- Experience building and deploying RAG pipelines or similar systems.
- Ability to manage large datasets for training and evaluation.
- Skilled in deploying models and pipelines at scale using cloud platforms or containerized environments.
- Previous involvement in SR&ED processes and documenting projects to align with SR&ED funding requirements
**Tech Stack You'll Be Working With:**
- Vector search engines like Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS
- Cloud platforms and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Data annotation and evaluation frameworks