Senior Software Engineer, AI

Toronto, Ontario. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will build and optimize LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and automate workflows. You will lead the design of search and retrieval agent systems to generate competitive insights.

What you will do

Build and ship backend systems that power agentic workflows.
Develop and operate evaluation frameworks for agentic systems.
Design and optimize retrieval and ranking systems.
Improve LLM-powered workflows end to end.
Connect technical decisions to customer outcomes.
Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and data teams.
Evaluate and integrate advances in LLMs and retrieval architectures.

Required qualifications

Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
Experience in at least one of: search/retrieval, data pipelines, distributed systems, or API-heavy service architectures.
Hands-on experience with search, retrieval, or ranking systems.
Experience building or evaluating agentic / LLM-powered systems.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Proficiency with Python.
Experience with backend frameworks, APIs, and production infrastructure.
Familiarity with vector databases and search infrastructure.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Experience building systems that handle scale, large data volumes, low-latency requirements, and high availability.
Use of AI coding tools in development workflow.
Ability to lead projects and provide technical direction.

Nice to have

Experience designing multi-agent systems or complex orchestration workflows.
Background in conversational search or dialogue systems.
Contributions to open-source projects in search, retrieval, or the LLM ecosystem.
Interest in sharing learnings externally

Benefits

Extended health & dental coverage that starts on Day 1.
Discounts at Goodlife and Perkopolis.
Opportunity to participate in Employee Stock Option Plan.
Take the time you need vacation policy.
Mac or PC and access to A+ tooling.
Direct access to leadership team.
Annual company-wide kickoff in Vancouver.
Regular social events in Hubs.
Dog-friendly spaces in Vancouver and Toronto.

Before you apply

Candidates are limited to one engineering application every 60 days.

About the company

Klue helps organizations stop losing winnable deals by generating market, competitor, and buyer insights in a unified platform. The company is AI-first and builds autonomous agents to handle data collection and insight generation.