Systems Integration Specialist Sovereign AI
Montreal-based non-profit academic AI research institute advancing machine learning through open-science research, talent development, technology transfer, responsible AI, and industry innovation.
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About Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Mila is a non-profit AI research hub created through collaboration between Université de Montréal and McGill University, with Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal. Its community conducts machine-learning research and supports AI adoption, training, and technology transfer.
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About the Role
You will evaluate, test, and integrate AI stack components into production environments. You will build deployment automation and CI workflows, support pilot deployments, diagnose failures, improve reliability and performance, and maintain runbooks and integration documentation so partners can operate the stack independently.
Requirements
- Three or more years of experience integrating, deploying, and troubleshooting production software
- Experience integrating and testing at least one AI component
- Ability to evaluate unfamiliar components through reproducible tests and benchmarks
- Experience operating Linux services and containerized applications using Docker or equivalent tools
- Experience integrating services through APIs and configuration, including authentication, access controls, and secrets management
- Python and shell scripting skills
- Experience building CI workflows for automated integration, upgrade, rollback, and recovery tests
- Experience administering Grafana LGTM or an equivalent observability stack
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs and write operational documentation
Responsibilities
- Evaluate stack components and assess their architectural fit
- Test candidate components through reproducible experiments, benchmarks, and pilot deployments
- Recommend components and integration approaches with the Technical Lead
- Integrate selected components through configuration and interoperability testing
- Build and maintain CI workflows for component integrations
- Automate configuration, deployment, upgrades, and rollback
- Ensure components meet security, observability, and control plane requirements
- Support pilot deployments and diagnose failures
- Maintain integration documentation, benchmark records, runbooks, and operating instructions
Benefits
- Comprehensive group insurance including health, dental, disability, life, travel, and extended benefits
- Employee and family assistance program
- Telemedicine service
- 20 days of vacation upon hiring
- Retirement savings plan with a minimum 4% employer contribution
- Flexible benefits package including lifestyle credits, enhanced insurance, additional vacation, and enhanced retirement contributions
- Flexible working hours
- Summer schedule
- Possibility of telecommuting