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We're building conversational AI systems that interact with our global expert network at scale - combining real-time voice, LLM-driven orchestration, and retrieval over large proprietary datasets.\nYou'll be an early engineer on a new initiative: taking working prototypes to production and shaping the architecture as the product scope grows. This is a hands-on role with broad ownership, close to product and leadership.\nThis role is hybrid in our Toronto Office\nWhat You'll Do:\nReal-time conversational AI: voice- and chat-based agents with low-latency requirements, built on modern telephony and real-time media infrastructure.\nLLM orchestration: agentic systems that pursue goals over multi-turn conversations, with hard behavioral guarantees enforced in code - not just prompts.\nMulti-channel session management: stateful user interactions that move seamlessly across channels.\nRetrieval and grounding: connecting LLM systems to large internal knowledge assets, with structured data flowing back.\n Evaluation infrastructure: measuring conversational quality against human baselines and gating rollouts on metrics, not vibes.\nOwn services end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment (Kubernetes/Azure), and operations, including latency-sensitive real-time workloads.\nDesign and tune LLM pipelines: context engineering, structured outputs, model selection, cost/latency tradeoffs across vendors.\nBuild the eval loop and treat quality as a number: define metrics, run experiments, gate releases on them.\nIntegrate third-party AI and voice vendors behind clean abstractions so providers stay swappable.\nPartner with product and compliance stakeholders to encode domain rules into the system.\nSet engineering patterns for a growing team: code review, observability, incident habits.\nWhat You Have:\n6+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years building LLM-powered products in production (not notebooks): orchestration, RAG/grounding, structured outputs, eval-driven iteration.\nStrong TypeScript or Python; comfortable working across both.\nReal-time or streaming systems experience: WebSockets, WebRTC, audio pipelines, or comparable low-latency work.\nCloud-native production experience: containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability. Azure a plus.\nFamiliarity with agent/LLM frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or CrewAI - hands-on exposure is enough; we care that you know the landscape and when plain code beats a framework.\nWorking familiarity with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval.\nPragmatic product judgment: you scope prototypes, kill weak approaches with data, and ship.\nNice-to-have:\nVoice AI: telephony platforms, conversational agent frameworks, STT/TTS, turn-taking/VAD.\nKnowledge graphs or large-scale search/retrieval systems.\nRegulated or compliance-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance).\nEval harnesses or LLM-as-judge systems.\nWhat We Offer: \nThe annual base salary range for this position is 175,000-210,000 CAD. Additionally, this position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on performance.\nYou will also be eligible for the following benefits:\nPaid time off \nComprehensive benefits plan \nCompany RRSP match \nDevelopment opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform \nAbout Guidepoint: \nGuidepoint powers end-to-end research workflows for the world’s best research teams.\nBacked by a global network of more than 2 million experts and over 1,600 employees, Guidepoint delivers real-time access to expertise, primary research, and actionable knowledge that help organizations make informed decisions. 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