Principal Agentic AI Data Scientist

Lead agentic AI architecture and delivery as a Principal Data Scientist with Robots and Pencils, working remotely across Canada. Shape enterprise-scale systems.

This senior technical leadership role guides an entire agentic AI program across many concurrent workstreams. You will define technical vision, reference architecture, and evaluation standards while guiding large teams through complex delivery challenges. The work spans LLMs, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, and ML platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee agentic AI workstreams from framing through production operation
• Define architecture, technical strategy, and program-wide engineering standards
• Establish evaluation frameworks for quality, safety, cost, and latency
• Resolve dependencies and blockers across technical delivery streams
• Advise executives and client leaders on high-stakes technical decisions

Requirements:

• 12+ years in data science and AI/ML
• Enterprise experience moving AI systems from research to production
• Hands-on LLM, RAG, orchestration, embeddings, and tool-calling experience
• Strong Python, MLOps, software engineering, and system design skills
• Experience leading large, multi-team technical programs

Bring principal-level data science leadership, agentic AI expertise, and enterprise delivery judgment to Robots and Pencils remotely across Canada.