Fall 2026

AI Engineer Intern

ShyftLabs

ShyftLabs

11-50 employees

Data-driven decision-making platform for organizations

Compensation Overview

CA$20 - CA$30/hr

Toronto, ON, Canada

Hybrid

Hybrid role; three days per week in the Toronto, Ontario office.

Bachelor's

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Python
Git
Graph Databases
Machine Learning
OpenAI
RAG
Observability
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Good understanding of machine learning, natural language processing, and LLM fundamentals.
  • Experience building at least one LLM-powered or agentic application.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs.
  • Experience working with APIs, Git, databases, and standard software engineering practices.
  • Ability to research complex technical problems, experiment with different approaches, and clearly communicate results.
  • Strong interest in building reliable AI systems, not just basic LLM demos
Responsibilities
  • Build and improve agent orchestration and multi-agent workflows.
  • Develop agentic applications for enterprise use cases using Continuum.
  • Work with different commercial and open-source models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, Mistral, and others.
  • Improve intelligent model routing based on task complexity, quality, latency, and cost.
  • Build persistent memory and state-management capabilities for long-running agent workflows.
  • Develop tool-calling functionality and integrations with APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.
  • Work with MCP servers and function tools to connect agents with external services.
  • Design context-engineering and retrieval pipelines using vector and graph databases.
  • Implement AI guardrails for safety, security, access control, data privacy, and policy enforcement.
  • Create evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, tool usage, workflow completion, latency, and cost.
  • Improve the observability and traceability of agent decisions, tool calls, and workflow execution.
  • Optimize prompts, model usage, token consumption, response time, and infrastructure costs.
  • Build APIs, backend services, and user-facing prototypes for agentic applications.
  • Write clean, reusable, well-tested, and documented Python code.
  • Contribute to Continuum’s open-source codebase, examples, documentation, and developer experience.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar technologies.
  • Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or open-source models.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma.
  • Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j.
  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with AI observability and evaluation tools such as Langfuse.
  • Understanding of multi-tenancy, identity management, authorization, or enterprise security.
  • Experience with model routing, inference optimization, prompt compression, or cost optimization.
  • Contributions to open-source AI projects, research, hackathons, or technically strong personal projects.

ShyftLabs helps organizations adopt a data-first approach to decision making by designing and implementing processes that turn data into actionable insights. Its solution builds structured analytics workflows and governance, so teams access trustworthy data, follow defined steps, and act on results with clarity. Unlike tools that only show dashboards, ShyftLabs focuses on repeatable data practices and governance that speed up decisions and reduce ad hoc analysis. The goal is to help organizations stay ahead of the competition by enabling faster, more informed decisions across the business.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Canada

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • April 2026 Billy Bishop launch shows current product momentum and live customer adoption.
  • ShyftLabs posted dozens of open roles in 2026, indicating active growth and delivery demand.
  • The company claims $500 million client value and 90+ NPS, supporting sales conversations.

What critics are saying

  • Consulting revenue concentration exposes ShyftLabs when enterprise clients cut transformation budgets in 2026.
  • Carter's April 2026 airport deployment depends on one network; churn would hurt credibility fast.
  • No public funding, profitability, or long-term contracts disclosed; scaling may stall without capital.

What makes ShyftLabs unique

  • ShyftLabs pairs data consulting with Carter, its proprietary DOOH adtech platform, in 2026.
  • It claims 200+ experts across Toronto, New York, Dubai, and Noida.
  • It won Toronto Port Authority's April 2026 Billy Bishop DOOH rollout, signaling enterprise trust.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Hybrid Work Options

Professional Development Budget