Hybrid Intermediate AI/ML Engineer

at Solink

• Job title: Intermediate AI/ML Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$98,348 - CA$125,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PyTorch, React, Rust, SDLC, Tensorflow, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ottawa, Canada

About the role

• Intermediate AI/ML Engineer designing and deploying machine learning solutions for video security. Join Solink to transform video security into real-time operational insights in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, train, and deploy ML models - including computer vision, LLMs/VLMs, and multimodal models - across cloud and embedded environments.
• Evaluate, recommend and help integrate third-party AI/LLM/VLM services, balancing cost, performance, and applicability to customer use cases.
• Participate in the full SDLC - from proof of concept, to integration with backend services, UX development, deployment, troubleshooting, and bug fixing.
• Contribute to MLOps pipelines supporting data preparation, experimentation, training, evaluation, model versioning, serving, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Work on model filter chain development and ML engineering - optimizing for cost efficiency and model effectiveness.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define model requirements and translate customer problems into valuable predictive insight features.
• Adhere to best practices for quality, observability, alerting, and performance tuning.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade software and integrating ML models into customer facing solutions.
• Experience in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience developing either front end or backend features with one or more of Node.js, React, Rust, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and optimizing ML models.
• Experience contributing to MLOps pipelines (data pipelines, labelling, experimentation, serving, monitoring, retraining).
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate third-party LLM/VLM and AI services and make informed recommendations.
• Comfort with contributing to all parts of the SDLC - from requirements validation, to software development, to quality and observability of complete systems.
• Ability and interest in working across both ML and software engineering stack (cross functional imperative).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain ML concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Fully paid health & dental (no waiting period) + $500 health spending account for full-time, permanent Solink employees.
• Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs for all Solink employees.
• Meaningful equity: Every full-time, permanent employee has a stake in our growth.
• Advancement is based on contribution, initiative, and the ability to raise the bar - together.
• Clear expectations, honest feedback, and no politics.
• From So-learns to Solink-o and So-lunches, we stay connected in ways that actually feel fun.