Founding AI Engineer / CTO
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Full Time
5 hours ago
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Key skills
AIMLRAGTerraformCI/CD
About this role
Northeading Technologies is seeking a Founding AI Engineer / CTO who will take on the role of a technical co-founder responsible for building the AI core and owning it end-to-end. This position involves designing and implementing advanced AI/ML systems while leading the engineering team and shaping the technical direction of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build the core alignment engine: embeddings, retrieval, match-signal pipeline, and ranking, and production inference for scale
- Implement robust retrieval/RAG or agent architectures and make the trade-offs between latency, cost, and privacy
- Build data pipelines, model evaluation and continuous training workflows, and reliable model deployment (serving, autoscaling, monitoring)
- Lead infra: containerized services, cloud infra as code (Terraform), CI/CD, and secure model hosting
- Hire and grow a small engineering team; own product/technical roadmap and KPIs