About the Role
Build the AI backbone of our product, including retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, multi-step agent workflows, embedding systems, and LLM integrations. Design vector search strategies, build agent loops, evaluate model quality, and ship production-ready systems. Bring a point of view on embedding models, chunking strategies, reranking approaches, and the tradeoffs between quality, latency, and cost.
Responsibilities
- Design and build retrieval-augmented generation systems, owning chunking strategy, embedding selection, retrieval optimization, and reranking.
- Implement and manage vector search infrastructure and integrate embeddings with our MongoDB core data layer.
- Build multi-step agent loops with tool use, memory, planning, and guardrails, handling edge cases like hallucination and reasoning failures.
- Integrate Claude and OpenAI APIs using orchestration frameworks, managing prompts, context windows, streaming, function calling, and tool use.
- Build evaluation pipelines to measure LLM output quality and iterate on prompts, retrieval strategies, and model choices.
- Use AI-assisted development as part of your workflow and help the team ship faster with AI tools.
- Collaborate with product to scope AI features, advise on feasibility, and help set patterns and best practices.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building RAG systems in production (chunking, embedding, retrieval, reranking).
- Real experience with embedding models (OpenAI, Cohere, or open-source) and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, or similar).
- Experience building agent loops or multi-step reasoning systems (tool use, memory patterns, error handling).
- Familiarity with Claude API and/or OpenAI API — prompt design, function calling, streaming.
- Strong TypeScript and Python — you write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Understanding of LLM limitations: hallucination, context windows, latency, inference cost, and real-world tradeoffs.
- Experience with Claude Code or AI-assisted development workflows.
- Knowledge of LLM evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, custom metrics, semantic similarity scoring).
- Side projects or portfolio demonstrating real AI work (not tutorials) — GitHub, demos, case studies.
- Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent).
- Experience with multi-modal inputs or structured output extraction (JSON mode, schema validation).
- Background shipping AI features in a production SaaS environment (not just experiments).
- Familiarity with Stan AI stack: Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS.
- Understanding of prompt engineering, few-shot learning, and in-context optimization.
- Fine-tuning or RLHF experience.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects.
- Experience in PropTech, FinTech, or operations software.
- Knowledge of prompt injection risks and AI safety patterns.
- Familiarity with vector database administration (indexing, cost optimization, scaling).
Skills
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Vector Databases
- Agent Workflows
- LLM Integration
- TypeScript
- Python
- Claude API
- OpenAI API
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Pinecone
- Weaviate
- Chroma
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- AWS
- Prompt Engineering
- Few-Shot Learning
- In-Context Optimization
- Fine-tuning
- RLHF
- Prompt Injection
- AI Safety
Location
- North York
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-office
Experience Level
- Production Experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health, dental, and specialist benefits
- Company Macbook
- Free parking and shuttle service to the office
- Extra PTO during occasional US holidays
- Company events, in-office restaurant, and building-wide perks
- Unlimited ping pong and espresso
About the Company
- STAN is the largest provider of AI solutions for HOA and Condo Property Managers.
- We are using cutting-edge and patented artificial intelligence technology to build solutions that enhance life for residents of more than 4 million+ homes across North America.
- Our mission is to build the world’s first AI property manager.
- STAN is an award-winning platform, recognized by Rogers, FedEx, George Brown College, StartUp Canada, and the Waterloo Accelerator Centre.
