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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

AI Developer (LLM & Agentic Systems)

WSP Toronto, ON senior full-time

Salary

$104,100 – $138,000 per year

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Description

As an AI Developer (LLM & Agentic Systems), you will design and develop AI-enabled applications and intelligent systems used in client-facing projects, supporting decision-making across mining, resources, infrastructure, and environmental domains.

You will build next-generation AI applications that combine Large Language Models (LLMs), structured data, and domain knowledge to enable advanced reasoning and support complex engineering and operational decisions.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications that integrate advanced AI and data capabilities.
  • Develop backend APIs and cloud-native components that support scalable data and analytics workflows.
  • Integrate LLMs, agentic workflows, and NLP techniques into production-ready systems.
  • Contribute to the design and evolution of knowledge-based and data-driven platforms.
  • Develop and integrate data pipelines and knowledge-driven components into applications.
  • Collaborate closely with analytics, data science, knowledge engineering, and digital product teams.
  • Work directly with internal teams and clients to translate requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.
  • Implement secure, maintainable, and testable code aligned with industry best practices.
  • Support CI/CD, Git workflows, and DevOps automation.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years leading the design, deployment, and scaling of LLM-based or agentic AI systems in production environments.
  • Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end AI architectures, including data ingestion, retrieval, reasoning layers, and user-facing applications.
  • Strong experience with LLM workflows, including prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, agent orchestration, and tool integration.
  • Hands-on experience with embeddings, vector search, and RAG pipelines, including performance optimization and retrieval quality improvements.
  • Proven ability to design and build scalable backend systems and APIs, including microservices architectures.
  • Experience integrating structured and unstructured data into scalable AI applications.
  • Experience applying NLP techniques in real-world applications.
  • Strong experience with cloud-native development, including deployment, monitoring, and cost/performance optimization.
  • Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and multi-environment deployments.

Nice to have: Experience with knowledge graphs and graph query languages, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, ETL pipelines, or engineering-heavy data environments.

Benefits:

  • Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.
  • A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
  • Limitless opportunities start here.
  • Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.

Compensation:

  • $104,100 – $138,000 (AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT)
  • $95,500 – $130,800 (MB & ON)
  • $94,100 – $124,900 (NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC)

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You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/91916

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