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title: 'Senior AI Engineer at Novisto'
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# Senior AI Engineer at Novisto

- **Company:** Novisto
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://novisto.com/company/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=4744257005

## Job description

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will own the layer that makes Novisto's products intelligent: the retrieval and orchestration systems behind our conversational and knowledge-driven experiences, and the automated AI workflows that turn documents into structured, usable data.

You will apply strong software engineering principles to design how our systems retrieve, rank, and assemble context for Large Language Models, build the extraction and agentic pipelines that replace manual data work, own the platform services that expose those capabilities to product teams, and set the engineering standards for how we build with AI. You'll partner closely with Tech Leads, Product Managers, Principal Devs, and Platform Engineering to turn AI quality into a measurable product advantage.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role focused on production systems, not a research position: you'll compose, orchestrate, and rigorously evaluate foundation and document-understanding services rather than develop models from scratch.

## What you’ll build and own

- RAG Architecture: Design and manage our end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation infrastructure, including vector databases, hybrid search, chunking strategies, and prompt architecture.
- Develop Agentic Flows: Build agentic flows and agents, including state management, tool management, MCP server guardrails, and token management.
- Document Automation Pipelines: Create agentic workflows and extraction pipelines that pull structured facts from complex documents. You'll incorporate tool-calling, fallback logic, and human-in-the-loop review paths.
- LLMOps & Evaluation: Build systematic evaluation harnesses to track retrieval precision, extraction accuracy, and hallucination rates. Set up comprehensive observability for token spend, quality drift, and overall system health.
- API & Infrastructure Ownership: Drive senior-level software development by designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs. Understand DevOps best practices and manage scalable deployments utilizing Kubernetes.
- Technical Delivery: Contribute hands-on to the codebases making up the retrieval, extraction, and orchestration platform. Drive reliable, high-quality delivery through planning, code reviews, and pairing. Write technical tickets to bridge functional intent and execution, and collaborate with tech leads to ensure cross-team alignment.

Core Requirements

- Experience: 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years specifically building, operating, and scaling LLM-backed systems in production.
- Core Skills: Strong Python expertise (e.g., FastAPI) and solid fundamentals in cloud infrastructure (Azure/GCP), CI/CD, and modern architecture.
- AI/Search Tech: Hands-on experience with vector databases (pgvector, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, etc.), LLM provider APIs, and orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or Google ADK.
- Applied AI Knowledge: Proven track record of owning production RAG systems, complex document extraction pipelines, and multi-step agentic workflows.
- Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of LLM versioning, rate limiting, cost control, and automated evaluation for non-deterministic systems.
- Bonus: Experience in ESG, data-intensive applications, or regulated SaaS.

## What We Offer

- Impact: Advance Novisto’s mission to drive economic, environmental, and social sustainability through better ESG data management.
- Compensation & Equity: Stock option plan in an early-stage, well-financed company.
- Flexibility & Time Off: Remote-friendly flexible schedules, 4 weeks of vacation, and summer hours.
- Health & Wellness: 100% insurance coverage and access to Dialogue’s telemedicine app.

## About Novisto

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Novisto provides next-generation sustainability management software that empowers global enterprises to create value from their ESG strategy, data, and reporting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, raised in June 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Founded within the Innovation Lab of Diagram by a diverse team of innovation leaders and entrepreneurs in the technology and ESG space.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sustainability Management Software / ESG Data & Reporting
- **Target customers**: Global enterprises across industries (B2B), specifically sustainability and finance teams
- **Mission or purpose**: To drive corporate adoption of ESG best practices through transformative technology, enabling companies with strong sustainability practices to prevail in the long run.

## Products & Services
- **Sustainability Management Software**: A centralized platform for collecting, auditing, and reporting ESG data. Features include carbon management, ESG reporting, benchmarking against peers, and AI-powered insights. Described as "finance-grade ESG data" with embedded audit trails and approval workflows.
- **ESG Reporting & Disclosures**: Tools to navigate evolving regulatory landscapes, embed live data into reports, and align on narrative. Clients track an average of 700+ metrics per project, reporting an average 50% efficiency gain in submitting disclosures.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $20.0M (as of latest data); Total Funding of $56.2M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Diagram Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, Inovia Capital (lead in Series B & C), and White Star Capital (lead in Series A). Series C (June 2025) raised $27.0M led by Inovia Capital with 4 investors.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 124 employees, growing 13% YoY (+17 people)
  - Operates in 12 countries including UK, UAE, South Africa, France, and Turkey
  - 3 active job postings as of recent check

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain expertise**: Deep ESG expertise combined with AI to improve disclosures and sustainability performance
- **Enterprise-grade data quality**: Finance-grade, auditable data with approval workflows, giving board, CFO, and investor confidence
- **Efficiency gains**: Clients report 50% average efficiency gain in submitting disclosures
- **Comprehensive solution**: Covers the full spectrum from carbon management to regulatory reporting to peer benchmarking

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Presence in 12 countries with active sales leadership in UK, North America, and DACH region
- **AI integration**: Appointment of a Head of Artificial Intelligence signals deep investment in AI-powered features
- **Regulatory readiness**: Focus on helping enterprises navigate ever-evolving ESG regulatory changes
- **Carbon management**: Specific emphasis on carbon emissions measurement and management with decision-grade data

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes collaboration, honesty, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer success. Actively champions DEI, inviting team members to bring their authentic selves. Recruits diverse talent through structured, skills-based interviews to eliminate bias.
- **Work Environment**: Pet-friendly environment; year-round summer hours; 4 weeks vacation; unlimited sick days; healthcare spending account; stock options.
- **Engineering Culture**: 35 employees (24%) in technical roles. Tech stack includes TypeScript, microservices. Employee review on Indeed highlights "great work culture pays well," "relaxed work culture, supportive management," with management helping laid-off employees find new roles.
- **Office Policy**: Headquarters in Montreal, Canada (481 Viger Ave W); offices also in Toronto and US. Has employees across 12 countries, suggesting a hybrid/remote-friendly approach.
- **Notable Perks**: Stock options, comprehensive healthcare, flexible time off, DEI-driven environment.

## Sources
1. [novisto.com](https://novisto.com/) — Company homepage, product descriptions, metrics
2. [novisto.com/careers](https://novisto.com/company/careers) — Culture, values, benefits, DEI commitment
3. [linkedin.com/company/novisto](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/novisto) — Employee headcount growth, funding history, office locations, talent sources
4. [ca.indeed.com/cmp/Novisto](https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Novisto) — Employee reviews and culture insights
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/novisto78](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/novisto78) — Active job postings

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