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Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer

Tali AITorontoEngineering
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Salary
$170K - $230K CAD
Job type
Full-time
Posted
13 Aug 2026
Status
Open · checked 8d ago

About this role

Tali AI is hiring a Senior or Staff Applied AI Engineer to join its engineering team in Toronto. This full-time role suits an experienced engineer ready to own production-grade machine learning systems that help clinicians reclaim their time from administrative tasks.

Role Overview

In this position, the engineer owns end-to-end artificial intelligence systems, encompassing models, prompts, retrieval, data pipelines, evaluations, and production debugging. The professional builds ambient scribes, billing agents, and medical search tools that serve healthcare providers across North America. Evaluation holds equal weight to feature development, ensuring high trust and reliability in clinical settings.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement evaluation pipelines, automated judges, regression suites, and human review datasets.
Diagnose and fix failure modes by adjusting prompts, retrieval paths, routing mechanisms, models, or audio capture methods.
Build and maintain production agents, tool use orchestration, guardrails, and failure recovery harnesses.
Trace end-to-end interactions from audio input to delivered clinical notes to isolate and resolve systemic issues.
Manage model routing, weighted rollouts, and staged updates to attribute performance shifts safely.
Translate ambiguous clinical feedback into actionable problem statements, quantitative metrics, and engineering plans.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in production machine learning, applied artificial intelligence, or research engineering.
Extensive background in building evaluation graders, regression suites, or judge pipelines.
Practical expertise with agentic systems involving multiple models, tool calls, and retrieval mechanisms.
Robust systems engineering background covering backend services, data pipelines, and production observability.
Strong data-centric instincts focused on improving feedback loops and data quality.
Proficiency in Python and modern machine learning tooling.
Direct communication style and willingness to provide and receive rigorous technical feedback.

Nice to Have

Background in speech recognition or real-time audio processing.
Experience working within regulated domains such as healthcare or finance.
Prior clinical exposure or experience.

Skills and Tools

Python and TypeScript
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Cloud Run
Vertex AI, Claude, and frontier LLM and ASR providers

Salary and Benefits

Annual salary range between $170,000 and $230,000 CAD
Flexible working hours
Comprehensive health and wellness coverage starting on day one, including unmetered wellness days
Competitive paid time off, featuring a winter shutdown from December 25 to January 1, birthdays, work anniversaries, and extended long weekends
Annual $2,000 "Knowledge Dollars" allowance for professional learning and growth
Regular quarterly socials and company outings

About the Company

Tali AI is recognized as one of Canada's fastest-growing startups and ranks among LinkedIn's Top Startups of 2025. The organization builds a clinical operating system that integrates ambient AI scribes, billing agents, and decision support tools to help healthcare providers focus on patients rather than paperwork.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official Tali AI careers page to submit an application.

Skills and tech stack

PythonGCPTypeScriptLLM

Questions candidates ask

What is the location and work arrangement for this role?

The position is based in Toronto, Canada, operating on a full-time schedule.

What is the salary range for the Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer?

The compensation ranges from $170,000 to $230,000 CAD per year.

How much experience is required to apply?

Candidates must have 5 or more years of experience in production machine learning, applied AI, or research engineering.

What core technologies and platforms will I work with?

The tech stack includes Python, TypeScript, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Run, Vertex AI, Claude, and other frontier LLM and ASR providers.

What wellness and professional development benefits are provided?

Employees receive comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one, unmetered wellness days, competitive paid time off, and $2,000 annually in Knowledge Dollars for professional growth.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Tali AI careers page.

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