AI Technical Lead

About Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (formerly known as Delta Controls)

Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. is a leading building controls manufacturer. For over three decades we have provided innovative building automation solutions for commercial healthcare education and leisure facilities.

Job Summary

We are seeking an AI Technical Lead who brings deep hands-on AI experience and strong engineering this role you will guide a growing AI team shape the technical direction of the platform and stay hands-on with coding to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality production features.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor AI developers on writing clean reliable code and following good engineering practices
• Design and improve multi-agent workflows LLM features and RAG pipelines
• Build and maintain backend Python services and AI pipelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams Software Architects and other Technical Leads on system design and architecture
• Support the team in designing retrieval pipelines embedding workflows and vector search logic
• Maintain knowledge bases and ensure high-quality contextual retrieval
• Participate in architectural discussions and propose improvements
• Ensure scalability reliability and operational excellence across AI systems
• Stay current on emerging AI techniques tools and industry patterns

Qualifications & Requirements

• 7 years of software development experience
• Expert-level Python proficiency
• Practical experience with LLMs RAG embeddings and vector search
• Hands-on experience designing or building agentic workflows (Strands or equivalent)
• Familiarity with prompt engineering model APIs and production LLM pipelines
• Strong debugging troubleshooting and performance optimization skills
• Experience with code reviews unit testing and technical documentation
• Comfortable working in AWS Lambda (building deploying logging debugging)
• Hands-on experience with DynamoDB Amazon Aurora Amazon S3 CloudWatch and IAM
• Understanding of serverless and event-driven architecture patterns

Assets

• AWS Cloud Experience: Experience designing scalable cloud-native AI systems AWS Bedrock (model invocation agents vector search) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Nice-to-Have: Knowledge of RDF semantic or graph databases; event-driven architectures; containerization and orchestration (Docker ECS Kubernetes); observability and monitoring for AI/ML systems; background in MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Work Location: Hybrid (In-office 3 days per week subject to change)
City: Surrey
Type: Full-time Permanent
Salary: $104000 - $130000
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target payable for the base salary of new hires across all Canadian locations. Actual compensation may vary outside this range and is dependent on various factors.

Why work for us

We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and our company is perfect for those who want to create design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable big-data architecture with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks youll receive from day 1!

• Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work
• Flexible hours and scheduling available
• Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances
• Vacation leaves
• Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships
• Internal Recognition
• Employee Referral bonuses
• Transit accessible with free onsite parking
• Regular company events such as Food Truck Fridays Lunch & Learn and other planned activities