AI/ML Systems Engineer

Job Title: Systems Engineer AI/ML Diagnostics & Observability

Job Description

This role focuses on building end-to-end software diagnostics and observability capabilities for software-defined vehicles, using state-of-the-art AI-powered embedded vehicle diagnostics and cloud-based observability. As a Systems Engineer, you will help define, integrate, and mature intelligent diagnostic workflows that connect embedded vehicle behavior, AI reasoning engines, cloud services, and human support processes.

Responsibilities

• Define system-level requirements, interfaces, and workflows for end-to-end software diagnostics and observability initiatives.
• Support development of AI-powered embedded vehicle diagnostics capabilities that improve issue detection, case intake quality, root-cause isolation, and guided repair.
• Work across embedded, cloud, data, and AI/ML domains to connect vehicle diagnostics with intelligent reasoning and observability workflows.
• Translate business, service, and engineering needs into technical requirements for diagnostic systems, AI engines, APIs, workflow orchestration, and support tooling.
• Support AI/ML-driven capabilities such as case intake assistance, knowledge retrieval, diagnostic reasoning, decision support, validation, and orchestration.
• Define and refine requirements for diagnostic evidence collection, including DTCs, PIDs, Freeze Frame data, logs, event traces, module state, and procedural outcomes.
• Support the design of systems that combine engineering knowledge, diagnostics data, and AI reasoning to isolate likely root causes in embedded vehicle systems.
• Participate in evaluation and validation of AI system behavior using diagnostic evidence, service data, engineering content, and observability signals.
• Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to integrate containerized AI solutions into managed cloud environments and workflow systems.
• Help define observability requirements for diagnostic systems, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and escalation workflows.
• Participate in system integration, issue triage, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional technical problem solving.
• Support rapid iteration, testing, and deployment of AI-enabled diagnostic capabilities into engineering and non-production environments.
• Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams, product teams, and leadership.
• Contribute to product management activities by helping prioritize features, maintain product backlogs or roadmaps, and coordinate with stakeholders and development teams.
• Engage in the full systems development life cycle from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Essential Skills

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Data Science, or a related field.
• 36 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, embedded software, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or closely related areas gained through internships, research, academic projects, or full-time work.
• 36 years of systems engineering experience, including requirements definition, system integration, and diagnostics workflows.
• 36 years of AI/ML experience, including machine learning, large language models (LLMs), retrieval workflows, inference systems, model evaluation, and data pipelines.
• 36 years of software engineering experience with APIs, Git-based development, and containerized application workflows.
• Strong academic foundation in AI/ML engineering with practical familiarity in machine learning, LLMs, retrieval workflows, inference systems, model evaluation, and data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, data processing, and application functionality.
• Familiarity with AI/ML prototyping and engineering workflows, including training, inference, prompt-based systems, retrieval-augmented workflows, embeddings, ranking, and reasoning pipelines.
• Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, APIs, Git, and containerized application workflows.
• Interest in embedded systems, vehicle diagnostics, software-defined vehicles, and intelligent support workflows.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problem statements into structured technical requirements and clear system behavior.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including requirements authoring and the ability to drive high-level, abstract conversations with leadership.
• Demonstrated ability through coursework, research, internships, or projects to build or prototype AI/ML-enabled systems.
• Understanding of software systems and how application components work together, with the ability to help troubleshoot issues across the system.
• Experience gathering and documenting user or business requirements, analyzing current processes, and translating needs into functional specifications.
• Ability to understand and help document systems architecture, including integrations, data flows, and technology choices.
• Experience participating in the systems development life cycle from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Systems engineering skills to define system requirements and ensure components work together to meet performance, reliability, and operational needs.
• Product management skills to help prioritize features, maintain product backlogs or roadmaps, and coordinate with stakeholders and development teams.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Education from a highly regarded engineering, computer science, or AI/ML program with strong evidence of technical rigor.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, semantic retrieval, vector search, ranking systems, agent-based workflows, or decision-support systems.
• Experience with AI/ML and cloud tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, LangChain, Vertex AI, and BigQuery.
• Experience building chatbots, copilots, AI assistants, search systems, or reasoning systems.
• Familiarity with evaluation of AI systems for grounding, confidence, traceability, explainability, and policy compliance.
• Familiarity with embedded software systems, electronic control modules, diagnostics, or connected vehicle technologies.
• Exposure to DTCs, PIDs, Freeze Frame data, logs, vehicle network data, and diagnostic workflows.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Grafana.
• Experience with distributed systems, platform integration, or cloud-native services through internships, research, or projects.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile environment with software, embedded, cloud, AI, and product teams.
• Curiosity, strong ownership mindset, and willingness to learn quickly in a technically demanding domain.
• Ability to be detail-oriented while maintaining an understanding of broader system and product goals.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence and expert systems, including contributing to AI or rules-based features such as request classification or next-step recommendations while recognizing when human review is needed.
• Ability to use Google Cloud services to deploy or support applications, store data, or monitor cloud-based systems.
• Experience writing or maintaining Python scripts for automation, data processing, or application functionality.
• Familiarity with Java for application features, business logic, and error handling.
• Experience with observability practices and tools in cloud-native environments.

Work Environment

This is a hybrid contract position based at an engineering center in Kanata, Ontario. The role requires onsite presence four days per week from day one, and remote-only arrangements are not available. Candidates who relocate are responsible for their own relocation expenses. The position follows a standard daytime schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with no anticipated travel requirements. You will work in a fast-paced environment that emphasizes collaboration across embedded software, cloud, AI/ML, diagnostics, engineering, and product teams to deliver AI-enabled diagnostic and observability solutions for software-defined vehicles. The work involves modern cloud-native technologies, containerized workflows, observability tooling, and enterprise-scale engineering platforms, providing meaningful ownership, exposure to emerging AI technologies, and participation in highly visible innovation initiatives.

This is a Contract position based out of Ottawa, ON.

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $79.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

This is a Contract position based out of Ottawa, ON.

This is a hybrid position in Ottawa,ON.

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