AI Architect/Innovation Lead

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

Are you ready to make waves in the world of machine learning and AI? We're on the hunt for an AI Architect to join our dynamic global R&D organization. We're looking for someone who brings the heat, fosters seamless collaboration, and is always chasing that next level of excellence.

You'll be at the forefront of the industrial AI revolution. Get ready to tackle high-stakes challenges like IIoT, predictive maintenance, forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization, while unleashing the power of generative AI and agentic solutions. Your AI expertise and software engineer wizardry will power our solutions, crafting efficient and scalable services, expanding our AI infrastructure, and pushing the envelope of innovation across our product lineup.

If you're a maestro of mapping business requirements to the right AI/ML infrastructure and turning innovative ideas into deployable solutions. if you take pride in building top-tier AI platforms and services, we want to hear from you.

How Will You Shape the Future?

This role is all about hands-on technical prowess, and we expect you to bring your A-game. You'll be in the driver's seat, as technical lead, working with autonomy, accountability, and technical brilliance. Your mission includes:

• As the technical leader for a high-performance team, your focus will be on agile delivery of ground-breaking innovative AI solutions.
• Crafting and integrating AI projects from the ground.  Building proofs of concept and guiding the team to the grand finale of implementation and deployment.  You'll ensure scalability and top-tier performance.
• Locking arms with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product specialists. Together, you'll define, create, deploy, monitor, and document AI solutions that are both tailored and industry leading.
• Serving as our AI/ML technology expert, guiding us towards the latest and greatest AI infrastructure and delivery trends.
• Becoming our AI/ML technology evangelist. Get ready to shine on the conference stage, host webinars, and pen compelling white papers and blogs. Share your discoveries with clients and internal stakeholders, offering actionable insights that drive change.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• A solid 7+ years of experience as Software Architect or ML Engineer, backed by a proven track record of successfully completed projects.
• Experience bringing incubated AI/ML solutions to production, including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and vigilant monitoring.
• Expertise in Go, Python, and the tools and libraries that make AI magic happen like Langchain/LangGraph, Keras, TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc.
• Experience with agentic technologies and frameworks: AI agents, AI Assistants and agentic RAG patterns, vector/hybrid search, etc. will be an asset.
• Experience in creating and delivering multi-tenant cloud solutions at scale using Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud services. Experience with Azure stack will be an asset.
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven/microservices applications using Apache Kafka, Flink, etc.
• Exposure to model deployment and serving tools like Seldon Core, KServe, vLLM, etc.
• A solid background in DevOps and MLOps practices, and familiarity with tools to manage infrastructure as code, like Terraform and package managers like Helm Charts.
• Proficiency with pipeline orchestration tools, such as Airflow, Kubeflow, and Argo Workflows.
• Experience with drift detection and adaptation techniques as well as evaluating metrics to drive optimizations using tools like Elastic stack, Prometheus, Alibi detect, etc.
• Outstanding communication skills, ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Comp range of 130-150 CAD based on experience and interviews 

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

Sounds exciting? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application through our online applicant management system, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date.

Interviews and selections will be carried out continuously. As a step in our recruitment process, all candidates will undergo a DISC assessment (PPA) to help us understand our future employees, please note that this is not a decision-making tool, & is used to supplement our recruitment process.

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