Top AI Jobs in Ottawa

Lead research and engineering work on LLM-based architectures for dialog, search, and destination entry. Optimize LLMs via prompting and fine-tuning, integrate them with ASR, TTS, and vision systems, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver performant, resource-constrained solutions for automotive voice assistants.

Own Sophos EDR strategy, roadmap, technical product development, AI-powered experiences, and go-to-market execution. Translate customer needs, threat research, telemetry, competitive intelligence, and business goals into product priorities. Partner with engineering, security operations, threat research, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver endpoint detection, investigation, threat hunting, response, reporting, and XDR/MDR upgrade capabilities while driving adoption, revenue, and customer outcomes.

Lead applied AI and machine learning innovation for supply chain products. Develop prototypes and proof-of-concepts, evaluate emerging techniques, and guide promising ideas toward scalable enterprise capabilities. Provide technical leadership across research, product, and engineering teams while remaining hands-on with ML, generative AI, agents, LLMs, optimization, recommendation, and explainability. Influence architecture and technical direction, mentor colleagues, assess AI-generated code, and ensure solutions meet quality, security, maintainability, and customer-impact standards.

Teach a graduate-level seminar on generative AI for business innovation. Responsibilities include covering GenAI fundamentals, prompt engineering, AI-assisted software development, API integration, no-code tools, RAG, fine-tuning, autonomous agents, workflow automation, ethics, and strategic deployment. The professor will use experiential learning to help students develop practical AI-powered business solutions and assess customer needs, ideation, and problem-solution fit.

Chief of Staff to the CEO responsible for driving company priorities, building the organization’s operating cadence, managing KPI reporting, leading cross-functional special projects, and increasing executive leverage. The role requires turning ambiguous problems into measurable plans, coordinating leaders and external partners, deploying AI effectively across operations, and improving organizational efficiency in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.

Leads end-to-end delivery of enterprise supply chain analytics and optimization implementations. Responsibilities include engagement governance, solution architecture, modeling, data integration, configuration, UAT, adoption, change management, and executive stakeholder alignment. Manages global cross-functional teams, scopes statements of work, drives delivery accountability, and provides product roadmap feedback. The role is hands-on and customer-facing, requiring strong technical delivery, supply chain analytics, and program management expertise.

Develop and close enterprise sales with investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative electric utilities across North America. Build executive relationships, generate leads, manage HubSpot pipeline, negotiate contracts, present at industry events, write proposals, scope deployments, and transition signed contracts to implementation. Coach SDRs, support sales process improvements, and exceed targets while addressing utility needs involving grid modernization, infrastructure inspection, asset management, and grid operations.

Own one or two client AI product engagements from kickoff through iteration. Translate ambiguous needs into requirements, backlogs, sprint plans, and evaluation criteria; manage timelines, scope, resources, and client communications; direct designers and engineers; ensure AI output quality; identify blockers; and develop repeatable AI-first delivery processes. The role requires client engagement experience, a track record of shipping AI products or features, strong communication, technical fluency, and independent ownership.

Leads AI transformation consulting from business development through delivery. Owns pipeline, executive sales, pricing, proposals, client engagements, AI working sessions, prototypes, change management, account growth, partner delivery, and commercial outcomes. The role combines consultative selling with hands-on AI capability building, executive communication, and enterprise transformation leadership across multiple accounts.

Conduct applied AI/ML research focused on time-series forecasting and generative AI for supply chain planning. Review literature, formulate hypotheses, design reproducible experiments, develop and evaluate models, analyze results, and communicate findings. Build research prototypes and collaborate with researchers, engineers, data scientists, and domain experts to assess product potential. Contribute to technical reports, demonstrations, publications, and patents under mentorship.

Build and scale 1Password’s Commercial Deal Desk within Revenue Operations. The role partners with Sales, Finance, Legal, and cross-functional teams on complex deals, advising on pricing, terms, discounting, renewals, amendments, and approvals. Responsibilities include reviewing Salesforce CPQ quotes, improving commercial processes and workflows, creating playbooks and training, implementing automation and AI solutions, and using deal data to improve quality, efficiency, and revenue integrity.

Monitors and improves the performance, reliability, and adoption of AI-powered systems. Analyzes operational metrics, develops dashboards and reports, identifies bottlenecks, supports incident resolution, documents procedures, and recommends process improvements. The role collaborates with AI engineers, product teams, business stakeholders, and operations leaders while supporting governance, compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, development, launch, and optimization of AI-powered products. Defines product requirements, priorities, success metrics, and business outcomes while coordinating engineering, AI, executives, and business stakeholders. Evaluates emerging AI technologies, supports responsible AI governance, manages feedback and adoption, and drives continuous product improvement.

Own AI product backlogs, priorities, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery outcomes. Translate business needs into product requirements, collaborate with technical teams on solution design, facilitate stakeholder communication, support Agile delivery, and monitor product performance and adoption. The role also identifies AI-driven improvements, supports product releases, drives continuous improvement, and promotes responsible AI practices.

The AI Security Analyst assesses and mitigates risks across AI systems, machine learning platforms, and Generative AI applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, vulnerability identification, security monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, access control, policy development, compliance support, audit participation, and secure design reviews. The role partners with engineering, infrastructure, governance, and business teams to improve AI security capabilities and promote responsible AI adoption.

Translates business needs into AI solution requirements, assesses AI and automation opportunities, develops business cases, and supports solution design and delivery. The role facilitates stakeholder collaboration, testing, implementation, change management, reporting, benefits tracking, and continuous improvement across AI initiatives.

Leads operational oversight, performance analysis, governance, and continuous improvement for AI-powered products and platforms. Develops performance frameworks, executive dashboards, business insights, forecasts, and risk reporting. Partners with engineering, product, and operations teams to improve workflows, support automation, ensure compliance, and drive scalable AI operating models.

Tests and validates AI-powered products, machine learning models, and Generative AI applications. Designs test strategies, executes functional and regression testing, evaluates model outputs, identifies defects, analyzes quality metrics, documents results, verifies compliance, and collaborates with AI engineers and product managers to improve testing practices and release readiness.

Own the backend and agent systems powering LLM products, including multi-turn conversations, tool calling, RAG, state management, evaluations, monitoring, and production reliability. Diagnose failures across models, knowledge systems, tools, and infrastructure; establish regression testing and quality measurement; and guide product and technical decisions. The role requires shipping and improving LLM features at scale, strong backend engineering, disciplined evaluation practices, and preferably Web3 experience.

Lead product vision and strategy for complex, high-stakes digital products in client engagements. Serve as the senior product advisor to executives, define operating models and delivery standards, guide discovery and roadmapping, resolve complex product decisions, and establish success metrics. Mentor experienced product managers, influence engineering and design teams, support business development, and improve product management practices. Apply AI tools such as Claude to increase efficiency and strengthen research and product thinking.

Build and ship full-stack features, integrations, and enterprise customizations for an open-source AI product. Work directly with technical partners and customers to support deployments, diagnose complex application and infrastructure issues, and convert deployment feedback into reusable product capabilities. Maintain customer-specific solutions, create documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with product and engineering teams on roadmap decisions. The role requires strong judgment, communication, and experience with AI-enabled applications and enterprise deployment environments.

Own Hightouch’s core marketing product portfolio, including audiences, analytics, experimentation, trait building, and orchestration. Set product vision and priorities, lead 0-to-1 innovation, improve adoption, and drive revenue outcomes. The role requires close collaboration with Engineering, Design, executives, customers, and go-to-market teams. This senior, hands-on product leadership position involves managing multiple workstreams, validating market needs, defining MVPs, and presenting product strategy and customer insights.

Evaluate AI model outputs, audit data and model behavior, identify edge cases and failure modes, apply and improve evaluation guidelines, communicate performance trends, participate in calibration discussions, and document actionable findings. The role requires native-level Tamil, strong English and writing skills, critical judgment, attention to detail, and familiarity with GenAI safety considerations. This is a full-time, one-year, 100% onsite contract position.

Design, build, and scale an agentic voice AI framework for banking customers. Develop LLM guardrails, grounding, policy enforcement, evaluation, tool-calling, and runtime architecture. Optimize real-time voice latency, maintain production reliability, reduce configuration friction, and collaborate with distributed product and engineering teams. The role also requires strong technical judgment, proactive ownership, AI-assisted development, and leadership through direction-setting, unblocking, and mentorship.

Conducts in-depth legal and business research for attorneys and administrative teams, synthesizes findings, advises on research strategies, manages research projects, and evaluates information resources. Develops training curricula, delivers onboarding, monitors legal-industry developments and emerging AI research technologies, maintains newsletters and intranet content, and recommends resource purchases. Requires expert knowledge of legal and business research platforms, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities independently and collaboratively.