Nexxa
Applied AI Engineer
Toronto - Canada, Remote. Posted 5 months ago
The role
Applied AI Engineers work as forward deployed with customers to lead the end-to-end delivery of technical solutions. You will design and deploy systems leveraging Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.
What you will do
- Engage with enterprise and strategic customers to understand workflows, data, and technical requirements.
- Architect, build, and deploy custom solutions leveraging GenAI, LLMs, Machine Learning and Vision models.
- Lead full project lifecycles including scoping, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
- Integrate and optimize AI/ML pipelines.
- Build reliable, scalable software integrations using APIs, cloud services, and containerized systems.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack.
- Act as the customer's trusted technical advisor.
- Partner with internal product and engineering teams to communicate customer feedback.
- Produce high-quality documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical assets.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal best practices.
Required qualifications
- 5–10+ years in engineering roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, or similar.
- Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar production-oriented languages.
- Hands-on experience with Machine Learning, including training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying models.
- Direct experience with Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal models) and applying them to real-world problems.
- Exposure to Computer Vision techniques (detection, segmentation, OCR, embeddings, multimodal pipelines).
- Strong knowledge of ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, etc.).
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort leading customer-facing engagements and guiding stakeholders through ambiguity.
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in consulting, technical solutions, professional services, or customer-embedded technical roles.
- Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Experience building APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
- Familiarity with MLOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, model registries, CI/CD for ML).
- Background in deploying or fine-tuning CV models (YOLO, SAM, CLIP, DETR, etc.).
- Experience in startup or high-growth environments.
Benefits
- Innovative Environment
- Collaborative Culture
- Professional Growth
- Competitive Compensation
About the company
Nexxa.ai is building artificial super intelligence for heavy industries. The mission is to translate deep technical breakthroughs into operational reality for manufacturing, large-scale infrastructure, logistics and legacy environments.