--- title: 'AI Engineer (Brilliant Harvest) at AltaML' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-engineer-brilliant-harvest-altaml-canada-z8f04z9q5myv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # AI Engineer (Brilliant Harvest) at AltaML - **Company:** AltaML - **Location:** Canada - **Compensation:** $120k–$130k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/altaml/805a6254-f2e7-4e4c-8cad-fd6665c80f21 ## Job description ## About the Role As an AI Engineer, you will build and ship production-ready AI agents and features for the Brilliant Harvest platform. Working closely with the Lead AI Engineer and the broader AI team, you'll own well-scoped features end to end. Your work will center on agents that plan, make decisions, and take action, backed by the RAG pipelines, document ingestion, and models that power them. This role is ideal for an engineer with a few years of experience who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves solving complex problems. You'll take ideas from concept to deployment in a domain where AI is transforming a legacy industry. Along the way, you'll get hands-on mentorship and room to grow into larger, more ambiguous problems. ## Key Responsibilities Agents - Design, build, and ship production AI agents that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks across the Brilliant Harvest platform. - Implement agent orchestration, memory, and tool integrations (e.g., MCP servers), with guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for high-stakes actions. - Evaluate agents end to end, measuring task success, tool-call accuracy, cost, and latency, not just final answers. Build & Ship - Design, develop, test, document, and maintain production features for our AI platform, including the RAG pipelines and LLM integrations our agents rely on. - Build and improve components of our document ingestion pipelines (parsing, chunking, enrichment, and indexing), ensuring accuracy and compliance with manufacturer standards. - Investigate agent and answer-quality issues, tracing them back through tool calls, retrieval, and ingestion to find the root cause. - Help build and maintain evaluation datasets and automated checks, including LLM-as-judge, so regressions are caught before customers see them. - Prototype with new LLMs, agent frameworks, and tooling, and share findings that inform model and vendor decisions. Engineering Practices - Participate in brainstorming sessions, design reviews, and code reviews, giving and receiving thoughtful feedback. - Write clean, well-tested code, follow the team's coding standards and CI/CD practices, and suggest improvements where you see gaps. - Use AI-first development workflows (e.g., Claude Code or similar agentic tools) to work faster, while critically reviewing everything the AI generates. - Help analyze requirements for your features, break them into well-defined tasks, and provide reliable effort estimates for your own work. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work collaboratively with Product, Data, Design, and QA teams to deliver features aligned with business objectives and the product roadmap. - Provide input on the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs for AI features, and help integrate them with backend systems. - Communicate progress, blockers, and technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical teammates. Learning & Knowledge Sharing - Grow through hands-on mentorship from the Lead AI Engineer, taking on larger and more ambiguous problems as you're ready. - Share what you learn through code reviews, pairing, documentation, and demos, and help junior engineers get up to speed. - Embrace a "Systems Thinking" mindset, moving from writing every line by hand to orchestrating and critically reviewing AI-generated solutions. ## Qualifications & Skills - 3+ years of professional software engineering or data science experience, including at least 1 year building AI/ML or LLM-powered applications. - Practical experience building LLM agents, including tool calling, multi-step orchestration, and agent frameworks or protocols such as MCP. - Hands-on experience with generative AI and LLMs, such as RAG, embeddings and vector search, or document ingestion, ideally with at least one feature in production. - Strong proficiency in Python, plus working experience with at least one of: TypeScript, C# (.NET), or another modern backend language. - Working knowledge of API design, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. - A collaborative approach: you communicate clearly, raise blockers early, and give and receive feedback constructively. - Familiarity with React, React Native, or other modern frontend frameworks, and how they integrate with AI-powered backends, is an asset. - Experience with prompt engineering best practices and AI-first development tooling (e.g., Claude Code or similar) is a strong asset. - Exposure to evaluation methods for LLM applications and agents, such as test sets, LLM-as-judge, or human review, is an asset. - Experience working in a startup environment is an asset. - Familiarity with the agriculture, heavy equipment, or dealership domain is a strong asset. What Will Set You Apart? - You've built an agent that does real work, not just a demo. You know agents usually fail because of vague tools, missing context, or no way to recover, and you design for that. - You're comfortable when the roadmap moves under your feet. You turn loosely defined problems into working software quickly, and you're building the judgment to know which shortcuts will cost you later. - You've shipped something real with LLMs, at work or in a serious side project. You've seen what changes once real users, messy data, and latency or cost limits show up. - You know RAG quality starts with retrieval. When an answer is wrong, your first move is to check whether the right document surfaced, not to rewrite the prompt. - You treat evals as part of the job, not an afterthought. You've written test cases or LLM-as-judge checks, and you'd rather catch a regression in CI than from a customer. - You've experimented with decision models like TypeSafe's Jev, which return typed choices and scores with probabilities instead of text. You know when a fast, cheap decision call beats an LLM, such as classifying a document or choosing an agent's next step. Why Join Us? - Be part of a high-performing team led by [Remi Schmaltz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/remischmaltz/), an entrepreneur with decades of experience launching and growing agriculture businesses. - Remote-first role with a flexible work environment. - A front-row seat to how AI is changing the way equipment dealers, farmers, and contractors work. - A collaborative culture that values growth, learning, and impact. - Competitive compensation, ESOP, and benefits. ## About AltaML ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AltaML builds vertical agentic AI solutions that improve decision-making, reduce risk, and unlock new revenue streams by turning data into operational action. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed and Series A rounds, plus recent government grants) - **Headquarters**: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Software Development - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises and government organizations in energy & resources, financial services, forestry & agriculture, health, and manufacturing - **Mission**: To reimagine what’s possible with AI by giving teams the tools to optimize processes, reduce risks, and unlock new growth – building a future-ready business. ## Products & Services - **AltaForge**: Proprietary agentic AI development platform that streamlines the entire lifecycle from idea to production, with built-in governance, observability, and control. - **AI Navigator**: A guided service to help organizations cut through AI hype, identify practical opportunities, and focus on high-impact use cases. - **AI Foundations**: Hands-on training program that builds AI literacy and essential skills across teams. - **Agentic AI Lab**: A structured lab for exploring and validating agentic AI workflows and identifying where agents can deliver operational value. - **GovLab**: A specific lab designed for government teams to responsibly experiment with and adopt AI, emphasizing transparency and accountability. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric (Private)**: Total funding of ~$6.25M (Seed $3.0M; Series A undisclosed amount in 2019; Grants including $3.2M from The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund in 2020 and an additional grant from the Canadian Space Agency in 2025) - **Annual Revenue**: ~$15M (estimated) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund, Canadian Space Agency, Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute), and deep ties with University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Waterloo - **Growth Signals**: - 111 employees (+1.6% YoY) - 19 active job postings with +171.4% quarterly growth in listings - Offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Waterloo - Strong talent pipeline from top Canadian universities and companies like Microsoft, Deloitte, and Amazon ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical AI expertise**: Deep knowledge of energy, agriculture, health, and manufacturing pain points, enabling tailored solutions that outperform generic AI. - **AltaForge platform**: Proprietary agentic engine that delivers auditable, enterprise-grade AI with built-in governance – moving beyond experiments to production. - **Academic & government partnerships**: Close collaboration with Alberta’s AI ecosystem (Amii) and federal agencies, providing credibility and talent access. - **Proven methodology**: End-to-end support from feasibility assessment through deployment and ongoing optimization. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI leadership**: Scaling the use of autonomous AI agents that act on data rather than just producing dashboards. - **Vertical expansion**: Deepening pre-built solutions in energy, financial services, and government, while entering new industries through the GovLab and Agentic AI Lab. - **Talent pipeline**: Leveraging relationships with top universities (U of Alberta, U of Waterloo) to recruit and upskill AI talent. - **Product-led growth**: Using AltaForge to accelerate time-to-value for clients and reduce friction in AI adoption. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: AltaML emphasizes small bets, fast learning, and “better together.” They don’t hire for fit; they hire to add. Every full-time employee receives a professional development fund and an individual development plan. - **Work policy**: Hybrid environment – team members can work from home or in any of the four Canadian offices. No rigid 9-to-5; you set your hours based on deliverables. - **Benefits**: Comprehensive package including matching GRSP, health spending account, additional mental health services, and more. - **Engineering culture**: Developers are expected to work in an “AI-native” way, using tools like Claude and agentic coding platforms as core parts of their craft. Technical roles include a technical interview or assessment that is “fun, we promise.” - **Growth**: Fast-paced startup with clear career development plans and a growing team (19 open positions as of the latest data, including roles like Software Engineering Manager, Full Stack Engineer, and Lead AI Engineer). ## Sources 1. [altaml.com](https://altaml.com/) 2. [altaml.com/careers](https://altaml.com/careers/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/altaml](https://linkedin.com/company/altaml) 4. [jobs.lever.co/altaml](https://jobs.lever.co/altaml/) 5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/altaml) ## Other roles at AltaML - [Senior Account Executive, Construction Technology](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-account-executive-construction-technology-altaml-dallas-y6n0gwacn3cn) — Dallas, TX - [Intermediate Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/intermediate-software-engineer-altaml-calgary-ws01fcd5hhc5) — Calgary, Canada - [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-altaml-toronto-441qst3srq0v) — Toronto, Canada - [Senior AI Architect](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ai-architect-altaml-edmonton-z36g0rx2qfhm) — Edmonton, Canada