Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI) (Toronto)

The role

An Applied AI engineer will own the technical direction of AI systems including retrieval, generation, verification, evaluation, and production maintenance. You will work with the VP of Engineering and co-founders to influence product strategy and technical hiring.

What you will do

• Own the technical direction of AI systems including retrieval, generation, verification, evaluation, and production maintenance
• Influence product strategy, technical hiring, and market positioning
• Develop offline metrics to track downstream MLR pass rate
• Ensure every sentence can be traced back to a specific, defensible source
• Manage ML Ops including full CI/CD for ML, versioning, automated testing, and monitoring

Required qualifications

• Experience shipping, operating, and maintaining ML/LLM systems in production
• History of inventing metrics to measure and improve systems
• Depth in LLMs including retrieval, agentic pipelines, and targeted fine-tuning
• Python
• FastAPI
• Docker
• AWS
• Ability to take ideas from research to deployed service independently

Nice to have

• Direct and open communication style

Benefits

• Supplemental health, dental, and vision coverage on top of OHIP
• Ground-floor equity
• RRSP matching
• Unlimited PTO
• First month in New York with travel and accommodation covered
• Professional growth stipend
• WeWork stipend for the initial remote period

Before you apply

• You must be legally entitled to work in Canada
• We can't sponsor work permits for this role at this time

About the company

Solstice is building a commercial engine that allows pharmaceutical marketers to launch campaigns at 100x the speed. Their mission is to accelerate the knowledge of life-saving medicines.