--- title: 'Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Precision AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/artificial-intelligence-engineer-precision-ai-calgary-7pm3ctjayknf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Precision AI - **Company:** Precision AI - **Location:** Calgary, Canada - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/precision-ai/am9icG9zdDrwQu4_YANLg9uerGNonPDJ ## Job description ## Role Overview The Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Precision AI will contribute to the design, development, and deployment of AI-driven solutions. This role focuses on building, training, and optimizing machine learning models, supporting AI projects from experimentation through production, and maintaining high standards of technical quality. Working closely with Senior AI Engineers and cross-functional partners, the AI Engineer will help implement AI solutions that address real-world problems. This role offers the opportunity to grow technical expertise while collaborating within a fast-paced, research-driven environment. This role will work onsite out of our Calgary office (near Glenmore Trail). ## Key Responsibilities AI Project Leadership - Plan, design, and oversee AI/ML projects from concept to deployment. - Define milestones, monitor progress, and ensure timely delivery. Model Development & Innovation - Build, train, evaluate, and optimize machine learning models across natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal domains, including LLMs, VLMs, and vision-specific models (e.g., CNNs, ViTs, diffusion-based models). - Apply a range of techniques such as transfer learning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, prompt engineering, knowledge distillation, multimodal fusion, and efficient inference methods (quantization, pruning, model compression). - Work with recent large language models and reasoning-oriented models, applying techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, structured prompting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). - Read and experiment with recent technologies and research papers; evaluate applicability to projects. Programming Excellence - Apply strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software design patterns to build reliable AI systems. - Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established team standards. Practice unit/integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, and version control (Git/GitHub). - Leverage containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes for reproducible development and deployment. - Design and consume APIs (REST/GraphQL) for integrating AI models into larger systems. Mentorship & Team Development - Guide junior engineers through technical challenges and project progress. - Promote knowledge sharing through code reviews, workshops, and documentation. Cloud Infrastructure & Data Systems - Design and manage scalable solutions on AWS, leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices. - Work with large-scale datalake architectures to support data-driven applications. - Assist in monitoring and maintaining deployed models and services. Technical Communication and Partner Management - Communicate technical progress, challenges, and results clearly within the team. - Contribute to internal documentation and project updates Relevant Experience - 4+ years of experience in AI/ML model design, training, and deployment in production environments. - Proven expertise in building and optimizing models, including LLMs, VLMs, and other deep learning architectures. - Exposure to transfer learning, self-supervised learning, multimodal AI systems and domain generalization. - Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), diffusion models, or other cutting-edge ML techniques. - Strong programming skills in Python with solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices. - Hands-on experience with large-scale datalake architectures and distributed data processing - Experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) and MLOps practices (CI/CD, experiment tracking, reproducibility). - Strong communication, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to work across teams and with external partners. - Ability to stay current with emerging AI research and assess applicability of new methods to real-world problems. Education Requirements - Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, or mathematics ## About Precision AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Precision AI develops autonomous drone systems powered by artificial intelligence to enable plant-level precision spraying and crop protection for agriculture. - **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A) - **Headquarters**: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Daniel McCann ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Agricultural Technology (AgTech), Drone Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence - **Target customers**: Small to large farms, farm machinery manufacturers (B2B) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To accelerate artificial intelligence based farming practices to create healthier, happier, and more profitable farms” [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/precision-ai) ## Products & Services - **Stratus AirSprayer™**: The world’s first fully autonomous aerial sprayer with advanced AI, designed for broad-acre crop protection. - **SOLV™ Intelligence**: AI-driven software platform that processes visual data from drones to identify individual weeds and enable surgical chemical application. - **Drone Swarm System**: A fleet of AI-powered drones that work collaboratively to cover large fields with precision spraying. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $21.5 million across 6 rounds (Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed, and two Series A rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: At One Ventures, BDC Capital (Business Development Bank of Canada), Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Protein Industries Canada, Cooperative Ventures, John Deere (2023 collaborator) [dealroom.co](https://app.dealroom.co/companies/precision_1) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 60.7% year-over-year (28 employees as of latest data); expanding presence across 5 countries (Canada, United States, Egypt, Chile, Portugal); won the ‘Innovation Award in Environmental Sustainability’ at Ag in Motion 2022 ## Competitive Advantages - **Patented AI**: Proprietary computer vision models that can distinguish individual weeds from crops in real-time, enabling chemical use reduction of up to 90%. - **Full-stack autonomy**: Precision AI controls the entire stack — hardware (drones), software (AI/ML), and spraying mechanics — creating a vertically integrated moat. - **First-mover in aerial precision agriculture**: Unlike ground-based sprayers, their aerial platform can operate in wet field conditions and cover terrain more quickly without crop damage. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling deployment of the Stratus AirSprayer™ to commercial farms in North America. - Deepening AI capabilities in multimodal models (LLMs, VLMs, vision transformers) to improve weed detection and crop health analysis. - Expanding partnerships with major agricultural OEMs and farm machinery manufacturers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast-moving, impact-driven team focused on solving real-world environmental and food production challenges. - **Location**: Onsite role based in Calgary (near Glenmore Trail), with a growing global team spanning Canada, the US, Egypt, Chile, and Portugal. - **Engineering culture**: Research-driven environment that encourages experimentation with cutting-edge ML techniques (transfer learning, RAG, diffusion models) and staying current with academic papers. - **Perks & growth**: Opportunity to work on AI models that go from experimentation to production in a hardware-software integrated product; small but rapidly scaling team (60%+ headcount growth YoY) offers high ownership and visibility. ## Sources 1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/precision-ai) 2. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/precision-ai/am9icG9zdDrwQu4_YANLg9uerGNonPDJ) 3. [dealroom.co](https://app.dealroom.co/companies/precision_1) 4. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/precision-ai) 5. 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