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Hays

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Hybrid

Toronto, Canada

Freelance

04-02-2026

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Skills

Python SQL Data Engineering Apache Airflow Neo4J Data collection Machine Learning Databases apache Organization react Strategic Planning Langchain

Job Specifications

Your New Company

A leading Canadian retailer at the forefront of food and health innovation, committed to delivering quality, value, and sustainability. With a diverse portfolio of trusted brands and a strong presence across grocery, pharmacy, and wellness, this organization plays a vital role in serving millions of Canadians every day. Their focus on community, environmental responsibility, and long-term growth makes them a cornerstone of the Canadian retail landscape.

Your Role:

In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex data orchestration and advanced machine learning services. You will be responsible for developing the "brain" of our agent—implementing multi-agent architectures, robust RAG pipelines, and safety guardrails—while ensuring our underlying data ecosystem (Vector DBs, SQL, and Knowledge Graphs) is perfectly tuned for high-stakes medical contexts.

Agentic Systems & ML Services

Architect Multi-Agent Workflows: Design and implement a 2-layer supervisor-router graph and subgraphs using LangGraph and LangChain to coordinate complex task execution.
Reasoning & Planning: Implement ReAct patterns to enable the AI to perform autonomous chain-of-thought reasoning, strategic planning, and tool-based actions.
Tool Integration: Develop and maintain function calling capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to allow the agent to interact with external APIs and databases.
Safety & Guardrails: Build and deploy rigorous guardrail systems to detect and mitigate malicious inputs, handle medical crisis queries, and prevent inappropriate or biased outputs.
Evaluation Frameworks: Build and maintain a comprehensive evaluation service to measure LLM performance, grounding accuracy, and agentic reliability.

Data Engineering & Infrastructure

Data Acquisition: Develop scalable web scrapers and data collection pipelines using Scrapy and BeautifulSoup.
Pipeline Orchestration: Manage complex ETL/ELT workflows using Apache Airflow to process and ingest healthcare data.
Hybrid Data Storage: Architect and optimize data ingestion into Weaviate (Vector DB) for semantic search and possibly future case for Neo4j (Knowledge Graph) for structured relationship mapping.
RAG Optimization: Build and refine a full Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to ensure all LLM responses are grounded in verified healthcare data sources.

Minimum Qualifications

Advanced Python: Expert-level proficiency in Python and its data ecosystem.
LLM Orchestration: Proven experience with LangChain and LangGraph for building stateful, multi-agent systems.
Database Expertise: Hands-on experience with Vector Databases (e.g., Weaviate), Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j), and standard SQL.
Data Engineering: Proficiency with Apache Airflow and web crawling frameworks (Scrapy/BeautifulSoup).

Experience & Knowledge

RAG & Grounding: Deep understanding of embedding models, retrieval strategies, and grounding techniques to minimize hallucinations.
Agentic Patterns: Practical experience implementing ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, or similar agentic reasoning patterns.
Safety & Ethics: Experience implementing LLM safety layers and handling sensitive user queries (preferably in a regulated domain like healthcare).
API Development: Strong experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and implementing tool-calling interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with healthcare data standards (e.g., HIPAA compliance, FHIR).
Experience building and scaling production-grade evaluation suites for LLMs (e.g., PromptEval, RAGAS, LangSmith).

What You'll Get in Return

Competitive rate.
Challenging and great work environment

About the Company

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