Applied AI Engineer - Canada

Founded in 2021, Pulsora the “Enterprise Sustainability Platform”, is a well-funded Silicon Valley software startup.  It is dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and overall sustainability footprint with an integrated, comprehensive, flexible, and innovative technology platform built for compliance, tracking, and insight. We are well funded, have amazing customers across industries and geographies, established strategic partnerships with leading ERP and consulting firms, and are growing fast! 

About the job

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineer who can independently build and scale full-stack products while designing and deploying reliable LLM-powered systems and agent workflows in production.

What you will do

• Build & Ship AI-Powered Products

  Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered applications and agent-based systems in production

  Own the full product lifecycle from concept → production → iteration across backend and frontend

  Build scalable, maintainable systems that solve real customer problems

  Design & Operate GenAI Systems

  Develop prompt strategies, context management (RAG, memory), and agent workflows

  Integrate and optimize across leading LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-source)

  Continuously improve system quality, reliability, and performance

  Leverage AI-First Development Workflows

  Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) to accelerate development

  Validate, test, and safely integrate AI-generated code into production systems

  Contribute to evolving best practices for AI-first engineering

  Ensure Quality, Reliability & Performance

  Own testing strategy including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing

  Define and implement evaluation frameworks for AI outputs (quality, consistency, failure modes)

  Debug production issues and optimize for latency, cost, and scalability

  Take full ownership of system reliability and production stability

  Collaborate & Execute in Fast-Moving Environments

  Translate ambiguous requirements into working solutions

  Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to deliver impactful features

  Collaborate effectively with distributed and offshore engineering teams

  Advance AI & Product Capabilities (Nice to Have Contributions)

  Build advanced agent systems (planning, orchestration, parallel execution)

  Apply frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar where appropriate

  Explore fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and benchmarking techniques

  Contribute to intuitive, user-friendly AI-driven experiences and human-in-the-loop workflows

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred (or equivalent hands on experience)

  1-2 years of experience building AI-powered applications (AI agents or AI-assisted coding) and building and deploying LLM-powered applications or agents in production

  Experience integrating major LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-source)

  Working knowledge of prompt design, context management (RAG, memory, tool use), and multi-step/agentic workflows

  Ability to take products from concept to production and iteration across backend and frontend systems, including working across the full engineering lifecycle

  Practical experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, including the ability to safely integrate AI-generated code into production (validation, CI/CD)

  Experience debugging production issues, optimizing performance (latency, cost), and building maintainable systems

  Ability to define evaluation strategies for AI outputs (quality, consistency, failure modes) and experience with AI-driven testing and reliability practices

A little more about how you like to work

• Strong collaboration across a small team, including great communication with both onshore and offshore departments and translating vague requirements into actionable systems.

  Self-motivated and proactive—you create momentum without needing direction

  A strong problem solver who can navigate ambiguity

  A builder who cares about shipping real, working products

  Comfortable with ownership, accountability, and high expectations

  Thrives outside of traditional work structures

  You own the quality of the product you build

  Why this role?

  • High ownership and autonomy

    Opportunity to build products end-to-end using AI-first workflows

    Work at the cutting edge of AI-driven software development

    Work with multiple leading-edge technologies

    Fast-moving, execution-focused culture

    Work for the industry leader and innovative company

    You get to work on a solution that helps the planet and helps us all

    Why work at Pulsora?

    We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve our world now and for the next generations!

    Ideally have industry and market knowledge of ESG and sustainability

    The company will pay with salary, equity, and benefits

    You’ll get to work on problems that are hard and important

    You get to work on a solution that helps the planet and helps us all

    You’ll be joining an extraordinary team at the beginning of an extraordinary journey

    Hybrid-friendly work environment, in office 2-3 times per week (for those in New York, San Francisco Bay Area, and Munich)

    Pulsora Core Values

    Compassionate candor

    Transparency

    Embrace diversity and cultivate belonging

    Make a positive impact

    Delight customers

    Join us and become a driver for positive change!