At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company thats founder-led and privately held we empower our employees to push boundaries innovate and shape the future of healthcare.
With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400 integrated partners our platform serves over 30000 provider organizations making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canadas Most Admired Corporate Cultures we offer flexibility growth opportunities and meaningful work.
At PointClickCare we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity productivity and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows collaboration is enhanced outcomes are improved and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey.
**Travel to Office expectations**
For Remote Roles: If this role is remote there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include but not limited to onboarding team events semi-annual and annual team meetings.
For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include but not limited to weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role.
PointClickCareis searching for a Principal AI Engineer who will lead and design AI systems across multiple SaaS solutions following our AI Design Patterns defining technical standards and reusable patterns for reasoning tool use and coordinated action. This role will be part ofateamwhichdrives enterprise-wide AI enablement by defining strategy evangelizing adoption and delivering measurable business impact. Itidentifiesand prioritizes high-value AI use cases builds scalableAI solutions and creates playbooks and patterns to accelerate implementation. Through innovation hubs and close collaboration with product engineering and operations the team transforms prototypes into production-ready solutions. Additionally it invests in talent development equipping teams with the skills and tools to embed AI across the organizationandleads governanceof AI solutions across the organization.
To succeed as a Principal AI Engineer atPointClickCare you need to be highly innovative creative accountablecollaborativeand Principal AI Engineer partners with cross-functional teams to transition prototypes into secure observable production solutions andestablishplaybooks evaluation frameworks and platform components to accelerate adoption. Additionally the Principal AI Engineermentorsteams and ensures alignment with Responsible AI security and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and reference architecture for agentic AI across applicationsdefining org-wide standards for reasoning loops tool use/function calling memory safety and interoperability.
- Build and govern reusable platform componentsmodel broker & multi-model routing orchestration services evaluation harnesses prompt/versioning stores and telemetryto accelerate adoption across teams.
- Develop and refine advanced prompting strategies for LLMs.
-Test evaluate and analyze the performance of LLM and other GenAI models.
- Model routing orchestration servicesevaluation ofharnesses prompt/versioning stores and telemetryto accelerate adoption across teams.
- Drive cross-functional roadmaps and integration standards across OCIO and business teamssetting API/versioning contractsoptimizingLLM/agent cost performance and mentoring engineers to raise the bar.
- Evaluation ofleadershipestablishesoffline/online evaluation methodologies for agentbehavior and safety with dashboards tied to business outcomes.
- Be the go-to Subject Matter Expert (SME) and internalAIexpert for relevantenterprise applications seniorleadership vendors businesspartnersand internal team members while staying ahead ofemergingtrends andadvisingonbest practices
- Identifyprioritizeand executeAI use cases with clear business outcomes
- Coach and hold vendors accountable to our best practices and milestone deliverables
- Bea coach/mentor forotherengineerson AI maturity including performing peer reviews leading technical knowledge sharing sessionsestablishingengineering best practices approving pullrequestsand improving the overall quality of the technical solution
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned
Qualificationswe arelooking for:
- Model serving and cost/perf optimization: experience with model broker patterns multi-model routing and serving stacks
- Good understanding of SalesforceAgentforceand Boomi Agentic AI platform capabilitiesis highly desired
- Mastery in DevOps processes and tools
- Mastery in GITHUB and troubleshooting complex versioning and DevOps issues
- Mastery in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) to iteratively deliver complex solutions
- Excellent organization critical-thinking and personal self-managementand leadership skills
- Self-starter with the ability to deliver without supervision influence and motivate other team members
- A continuous learner you must enjoyacquiringand sharing knowledge and wisdom with others
- A seasonedgreat teamplayer and coach and internal leader to partner with cross-functional teams and other areas of practice like BA QA & Operations
- Analytical mind that is forward thinking with an aptitude to solve unique ambiguous and complex problems with broad impact
- A great communicator that can easily explain complex ideasanticipatepotentialobjectionsand persuade others often at leadership levels to adopt a different point of view
- An excellent self-manager being able to handle high pressure situations