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R&D Engineer - AI and Innovation

📍 Location
toronto
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 29, 2026

About the Role

Overview The R&D Engineer is a researcher-practitioner - someone equally comfortable reading papers and shipping prototypes. They are responsible for staying close to the frontier of LLM and AI systems research, identifying ideas with practical value, and building POCs that demonstrate feasibility. These POCs are demoed to the team and, where validated, handed off to the Platform and AI Engineers to productionize. This person does not work in isolation – they collaborate closely with the rest of the team throughout the research‑to‑product pipeline.

What You'll Do

Monitor and synthesize developments in LLM systems, AI infrastructure, and adjacent research areas

Prototype and evaluate novel ideas with a fast feedback loop – build, demo, iterate

Extend and improve the existing agent and RAG SDKs with new retrieval strategies, agent patterns, and provider integrations

Evaluate new embedding models, re‑ranking approaches, and retrieval architectu...

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