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Jr. AI Native Engineer
Location: Canada - Remote
Department: Data
The opportunity
At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether youre pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.
We are proud of:
- The work we do and the innovation we drive
- Our values of share, care and dare
- A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy
- Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration
Why Valtech?
At Valtech, we are transforming how people experience the world through technology. Our culture is built around a mindset to make, learn and grow, bringing together technology, creativity and experience to solve meaningful business challenges. [valtech.com]
AI is rapidly changing what it means to build software, and we want people who are excited to be part of that change.
We are looking for an AI Native Engineer who has spent the last few years building strong software engineering foundations while actively exploring whats possible with AI. You are someone who didnt wait for AI to become part of your job description. You started experimenting, building, breaking things and learning.
You may have built an agent because you wanted to understand how agents actually work. You may have experimented with several models to understand their strengths and limitations. Maybe youve created a RAG application, automated part of your development workflow, contributed to an AI project, or simply spent countless hours turning new ideas into working prototypes.
That curiosity matters to us.
If youre an engineer who sees the emergence of AI as an opportunity to fundamentally rethink how software is built, wed like to meet you.
The role
As an AI Native Engineer, youll work with multidisciplinary teams to design, prototype and build intelligent digital products and experiences.
Youll combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI capabilities, working across large language models, agentic systems, retrieval, APIs, cloud platforms and emerging development tools.
Importantly, youll help us discover whats next.
The AI landscape is moving quickly. We dont expect you to have all the answers. We expect you to be excited about finding them.
What youll do
- Design, build and ship AI-native applications and experiences for real-world use cases.
- Build applications using large language models, generative AI APIs and agentic architectures.
- Develop high-quality software using Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or comparable modern languages.
- Work with models and platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and open-source models.
- Build RAG and knowledge-retrieval solutions using embeddings, semantic search, vector databases and enterprise data.
- Experiment with AI agents, tool/function calling, structured outputs, orchestration and multi-step workflows.
- Integrate AI solutions with APIs, databases, existing platforms and enterprise systems.
- Rapidly prototype new ideas, test assumptions and turn promising experiments into scalable solutions.
- Build approaches for evaluating and testing AI systems, considering quality, accuracy, reliability, latency and cost.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools to explore new ways of designing, developing, testing and maintaining software.
- Apply sound engineering practices around security, privacy, responsible AI, observability and human oversight.
- Share what youre learning and contribute to the evolving AI engineering practices across Valtech.
What were looking for
- 2–4 years of professional software engineering or application development experience.
- Strong programming experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or another modern programming language.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including application architecture, APIs, testing, debugging, version control and CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience building with generative AI, whether through client work, production applications, prototypes, internal innovation, hackathons, open-source contributions or substantial personal projects.
- Practical experience working with LLMs and model APIs, including prompting, context management, structured outputs and model selection.
- Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, semantic search or vector databases.
- Exposure to agents, function/tool calling or AI workflow orchestration.
- Experience connecting applications to APIs, data sources, databases and cloud services.
- An understanding that building a great AI demo and building a dependable AI product are two very different challenges.
- Most importantly, a demonstrated habit of exploring emerging technology and turning your curiosity into something tangible.
Wed love it if youve...
We dont expect you to check every box. You might have:
- Built your own AI application, agent, copilot or developer tool.
- Experimented with multiple models and learned where each performs well, and where it doesnt.
- Built RAG solutions using real-world or enterprise data.
- Explored agentic architectures, tool use or multi-agent workflows.
- Worked with frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph or LlamaIndex.
- Used technologies such as Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch, pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant or Weaviate.
- Built applications on Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
- Used tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor as part of your engineering workflow.
- Created evaluations or testing approaches for AI outputs.
- Participated in AI hackathons, internal innovation initiatives or open-source communities.
- Seen a newly released AI capability and thought,“I need to try that.”
Specific frameworks will come and go. Were more interested in how you learn, what youve built and what youve discovered along the way.
You are
A builder.
You dont just read about AI. You build with it. Youre comfortable moving from an idea to a prototype and learning through experimentation.
You dont just read about AI. You build with it. Youre comfortable moving from an idea to a prototype and learning through experimentation.
An explorer.
New models, multimodal experiences, agents, reasoning systems and AI development tools genuinely interest you. Youre energized by a technology landscape where the playbook is still being written.
New models, multimodal experiences, agents, reasoning systems and AI development tools genuinely interest you. Youre energized by a technology landscape where the playbook is still being written.
An engineer.
You care about what happens after the demo. Reliability, maintainability, architecture, security and testing matter to you.
You care about what happens after the demo. Reliability, maintainability, architecture, security and testing matter to you.
A pragmatic thinker.
You understand that AI isnt the answer to every problem. Youre interested in finding where it creates genuine value, not adding AI for AIs sake.
You understand that AI isnt the answer to every problem. Youre interested in finding where it creates genuine value, not adding AI for AIs sake.
A learner.
You wont know every new model, framework or technique. Thats okay. What matters is being able to say:“I havent worked with that yet. Lets figure it out.”
You wont know every new model, framework or technique. Thats okay. What matters is being able to say:“I havent worked with that yet. Lets figure it out.”
What you can expect from us
Youll join an environment where experimentation and continuous learning are part of how we work. Youll collaborate with people across engineering, data, experience and strategy, and have opportunities to apply emerging AI capabilities to meaningful client and business challenges.
Valtech currently recruits across AI-focused roles alongside engineering, cloud, data and digital experience disciplines, reinforcing that AI is being embedded within the broader technology organization rather than existing solely as a standalone specialty.
Youll have room to make, learn and grow, while helping shape what AI-native engineering means at Valtech.
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