Location: Calgary, AB (Hybrid/Remote)
Type: Full-time
Position Overview
MetaFactor is hiring a Calgary based AI Developer to design, build, and operationalize advanced AI systems. This role includes several categories of work, including:
- Designing and architecting scalable AI solutions based on customer requirements, technology evolution, and best practices
- Taking models from experimentation to production-ready, scalable solutions, with a strong emphasis on LLMs, deep learning, and GPU-optimized workloads.
- Custom software development centered around AI implementations, including programming interfaces in Go, C#, and Rust, and integrations with machine learning libraries and frameworks including Python and SQL.
The ideal candidate must have a Bachelors or Master’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Process Control Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or a related field and at least 2 years relevant experience in oil and gas and or power industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain end-to-end AI data pipelines using tools such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Airflow, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Architect, design, and build distributed data architectures with cloud-based and lake-house systems.
- Develop, test, and deploy dbt models for data transformation and lineage tracking.
- Integrate and optimize data from streaming sources (e.g., Event Hubs, Kafka, IoT streams) and batch systems.
- Build robust data models and performance-optimized datasets in Databricks, Snowflake and Azure Synapse.
- Work closely with analysts and data scientists to enable reliable, governed access to curated datasets.
- Implement CI/CD and version control best practices for data code (Git, dev/test/prod environments).
- Ensure data quality, observability, and compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
- Monitor and optimize compute and storage costs across platforms.
- Assist customers with Microsoft Copilot implementations in accordance with best practices.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of experience in AI design and development, data engineering, analytics engineering, or ETL development.
- SQL and experience with Python for data manipulation and automation.
- C# and Go for custom data integration applications.
- Azure data services (Data Factory, Synapse, Event Hubs, Data Lake)
- Databricks (Spark, Delta Live Tables)
- Snowflake
- Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM, or Bicep) and containerized workflows (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, or Purview.
- Data observability and system monitoring tools such as Splunk
- dbt (Data Build Tool)
- Experience working with data warehousing, data lakes, and ELT/ETL frameworks.
- Understanding of streaming vs batch architecture, and when to use each.
- Strong version control (Git) and CI/CD familiarity.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Due to a large volume of applications we are asking for some additional information to help with the decision-making process. Please provide your resume and a short video introducing yourself and explaining why you are the best fit for the job.
Please submit your resume and your video presentation link to the email below.