Skip to content
← Back to job listings

AI Engineer Intern

shyftlabs · Toronto, ON, Canada

Data Science / AI / Machine LearningEntry LevelOn-siteImported listinginternship3 months ago

About The Role

What You'll Be Doing

-

Build and improve agent orchestration and multi-agent workflows.

-

Develop agentic applications for enterprise use cases using Continuum.

-

Work with different commercial and open-source models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, Mistral, and others.

-

Improve intelligent model routing based on task complexity, quality, latency, and cost.

-

Build persistent memory and state-management capabilities for long-running agent workflows.

-

Develop tool-calling functionality and integrations with APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.

-

Work with MCP servers and function tools to connect agents with external services.

-

Design context-engineering and retrieval pipelines using vector and graph databases.

-

Implement AI guardrails for safety, security, access control, data privacy, and policy enforcement.

-

Create evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, tool usage, workflow completion, latency, and cost.

-

Improve the observability and traceability of agent decisions, tool calls, and workflow execution.

-

Optimize prompts, model usage, token consumption, response time, and infrastructure costs.

-

Build APIs, backend services, and user-facing prototypes for agentic applications.

-

Write clean, reusable, well-tested, and documented Python code.

-

Contribute to Continuum’s open-source codebase, examples, documentation, and developer experience.

What We Are Looking For

-

Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

-

Strong programming skills in Python.

-

Good understanding of machine learning, natural language processing, and LLM fundamentals.

-

Experience building at least one LLM-powered or agentic application.

-

Familiarity with prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs.

-

Experience working with APIs, Git, databases, and standard software engineering practices.

-

Ability to research complex technical problems, experiment with different approaches, and clearly communicate results.

-

Strong interest in building reliable AI systems, not just basic LLM demos

Nice to Have

-

Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar technologies.

-

Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or open-source models.

-

Experience with vector databases such as Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma.

-

Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j.

-

Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.

-

Familiarity with AI observability and evaluation tools such as Langfuse.

-

Understanding of multi-tenancy, identity management, authorization, or enterprise security.

-

Experience with model routing, inference optimization, prompt compression, or cost optimization.

-

Contributions to open-source AI projects, research, hackathons, or technically strong personal projects.

Hourly Pay

  • $20 - $30/Hr (CAD)

This is an external listing. JobSpring does not represent or verify the employer. Report this listing