Artificial Intelligence Scientist

Role Overview

The
Artificial Intelligence Scientist
at Precision AI willdrive innovation at the intersection of advanced AI research and agricultural applications. This roleis responsible forconceiving, researching, and translating novel AI approaches into practical solutions that address complex challenges in agriculture.

The AI Scientist will lead the scientific direction of AI initiatives by designing and overseeing research-driven AI projectsanddeveloping and advancingstate-of-the-art machine learning models.

This role emphasizes problem discovery and ideation, developing novel solutions, and driving research from concept through deployment in collaboration with internal and external partners.

Working closely with AI leadership, engineers, agronomy experts, and strategic partners, the AI Scientist will shape both the long-term technical vision and the day-to-day execution of Precision AI’s AI-powered agricultural solutions.

This hybrid role is based in Calgary and will work from Precision AI’s headquarters 3 days a week.

• Lead applied AI research to develop novel approaches for agricultural challenges such as crop monitoring, yield forecasting, and sustainability.
• Explore and prototype emerging AI paradigms, including reasoning-enhanced LLMs (e.g., chain-of-thought, self-reflection, tool use), recursive or iterative modeling, reinforcementlearningand RLHF-style training, and self-supervised or foundation models.
• Translate research ideas into validated prototypes and production-ready methods.

• Design and evaluatestate-of-the-artmodels across computer vision, NLP, time-series, and multimodal learning (e.g., satellite/drone imagery, sensor data, text).
• Apply modern techniques such as representation learning, domain adaptation, few-shot learning, multimodal fusion, spatiotemporal modeling, and efficient fine-tuning.
• Advance model robustness, generalization, and efficiency under real-world agricultural constraints.

• Integrate domain knowledge from agronomy, climate, and geospatial data into model design and evaluation.
• Develop methods that handle noisy, sparse, seasonal, and region-dependent data, common in agricultural systems.

• Set standards for scientific experimentation, and reproducibility across AI research efforts.
• Mentor engineers and scientists on research methodology, model design, and experimental analysis.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external research partners to align research outcomes with real-world impact.
• Communicate research findings clearly through technical reports, presentations, and internal knowledge sharing.

• 4+ years of experience in AI/ML model design, training, and deployment in production environments.
• Provenexpertisein building andoptimizingmodels, including LLMs, VLMs,computer vision, and multimodalarchitecture.
• Experience with modern learning paradigmssuch astransfer learning, self-supervised learning, domain generalization, and few-shot or representation learning.
• Experience with emerging and novel techniques, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), diffusion models, reasoning-enhanced LLMs (e.g., chain-of-thought, self-reflection), and reinforcement learning–based training or optimization.
• Strong programming skills in Python with solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience with large-scaledata sets, data lakearchitecturesand distributed data processing
• Fluency inML frameworks (e.g.,PyTorch, Tensor Flow, Hugging Face) andMLOpspractices (CI/CD, experiment tracking, reproducibility).
• Strong technical communication skills, withthe ability to document research, present results, and collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Proven ability to stay current with AI research,critically evaluate new methods, and apply them to complex real-world problems.

• PhDormaster'sincomputer science, computer engineering, statistics, or mathematics
• Strong publication record in reputable conferences or journals in AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP, or related areas