Lead AI Agent Engineer

Base Salary Range: $110000 - $120000

Job Title: Lead AI Agent Engineer
Job ID: 80097
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia


What you must have:

• Design and implement AI agents that perform contextual tasks in end devices, cloud, and hybrid environments.

• Train and fine-tune LLMs, SLMs, and multimodal models as needed to support specific agent behavior.

• Architect modular and lightweight AI components that can run locally as microservices.

• Collaborate with product and platform teams to define agent capabilities and deployment constraints.

• Define and prototype AI Chains or other orchestration patterns for chained or cooperative agents.

• Build APIs and interfaces for integrating agents with upstream applications and downstream sensors/devices.

• Lead a small team of engineers building, deploying, and testing agentic workflows across devices.

• Stay ahead of the curve on advances in generative AI, reinforcement learning, autonomous agents, and on-device inference techniques.

What you must have:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML development, with focus on real-world product deployment.

• Experience building and deploying AI models as microservices using frameworks like TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, ONNX, Triton, etc.

• Strong knowledge of LLMs, language agents, vision models, and lightweight model optimization (e.g., quantization, pruning, distillation).

• Proficiency in Python, with experience in libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace Transformers, LangChain, or similar.

• Familiarity with Docker, REST APIs, gRPC, and working knowledge of Kubernetes or edge orchestration tools.

• Strong understanding of contextual AI, agent architectures, or AI systems design.

• Ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to team growth and technical standards.

Salary/Rate Range: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com