AI Software Engineer at Agility – Ottawa, Ontario

Company Overview

Agility PR Solutions provides today’s communicators with powerful and intuitive AI powered media outreach, monitoring, and measurement solutions. For almost twenty years, Agility has helped clients from across industries and continents discover relevant journalists and influencers, make meaningful connections with the media, amplify their stories, monitor media coverage and social conversations, and report on the impact of their public relations activities. Agility is one of the fastest growing companies in the PR tech space and it’s recognized by users on G2 for ease of use, quick implementation, and outstanding customer service. 

We are a remote-first company, with colleagues based across vibrant cities in Canada, US, the UK, Philippines and India. We are intentional in helping our teams realize their full potential, and continue to invest in their learning and development, career progression, offering competitive pay and benefits, enabling leadership and work environment. 

About the Role

As an AI Engineer (Agentic Systems & LLM Applications), you will design, build, and scale production-grade agentic workflows and AI-driven applications. You will play a key role in shaping how intelligent agents operate across our platform—driving automation, insight generation, and decision intelligence for PR professionals.

This role goes beyond implementation. You will contribute to system design, architecture decisions, and AI strategy, helping define how agents orchestrate complex workflows across data sources, APIs, and user interactions.

You’ll work across both:

AI application layers (TypeScript, agent frameworks, orchestration) Backend systems (Java, distributed data platforms such as Hadoop and Solr)

Agility PR Solutions is building next-generation media intelligence capabilities powered by AI. Your work will directly influence how customers extract insights, automate workflows, and make decisions from large-scale media data.

What you’ll do

Design and implement end-to-end agentic workflows for real-world use cases Build and deploy AI-driven agents capable of reasoning, tool use, and multi-step orchestration Develop application logic using TypeScript and modern AI frameworks Leverage frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph (or similar) to build robust agent systems Integrate with LLMs, and external APIs Design and implement RESTful services (Java) to support AI-driven capabilities Define and enforce best practices for: Prompt design and evaluation Agent reliability and guardrails Observability and debugging of AI systems Collaborate with product and design to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable solutions Optimize performance, cost, and reliability of AI workloads Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction Mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing

What You'll Bring

You should have practical experience with:

Agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent) Prompt engineering and evaluation techniques Designing multi-step workflows or orchestration systems

Experience With

SQL and data modeling Linux environments Git, and modern development workflows MavenFamiliarity with distributed systems or big data platforms (Hadoop, Solr, Spark, etc.) is an asset

Strongly preferred:

Experience building agentic or workflow-based AI systems Understanding of system design and scalability tradeoffsAbility to work independently and take ownership of projects Strong problem-solving and system design thinking Effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders Passion for AI, automation, and emerging technologies

Why You'll Love It Here

Fully remote work environmentCollaborative culture – and key tools enabling itCompetitive compensation packageHealth, Dental & Vision benefitsRRSP matchingEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Career Development & Progression opportunitiesPaid Vacation & Personal Days; and Sick daysFlex Fridays in Summer, Week off between Christmas and New Years'No Meetings Fridays

Compensation for this role is expected to fall within the range of $100,000-120,000 annually. The final offer will reflect each candidate’s experience, skills, and internal equity.This is for a vacant positionAI UsageWe use technology to make hiring smarter, faster, and more personal, never less human. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools help us manage applications efficiently and highlight qualifications that align with each role, allowing our recruiters to focus more on meaningful conversations with candidates.AI does not make hiring decisions at Agility. Every decision is made by people, our hiring managers and recruitment professionals, who are trained to apply sound judgment and equitable practices at every stage.We believe technology exists to amplify human insight, not replace it. That belief shapes how we build relationships, tell stories, and grow our teams.

At Agility, we strive every day to build a more inclusive work environment and introduce tools that enable it. We strongly encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation.

Even if you find yourself not checking all the boxes of our listed requirements but you are excited about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you anyway. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application for this role, and other potential role matches open now or in the future.

If, at any stage of the application process, you require accommodation owing to disability or a medical need, please let us know at careers@agilitypr.com for us to make appropriate arrangements.

Thank you for your time in reviewing this opportunity, and we hope to hear from you should you find this the right fit!