R&D Head – Agentic AI Ontario

Change the future with us. We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re‑inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Change the future with us. We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re‑inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

About the role: R&D Team Leader - Agentic AI Are you an entrepreneurial technology leader with a passion for building high‑performing R&D teams and turning advanced AI concepts into scalable industrial platforms? We are seeking an outstanding R&D Team Leader to join Siemens Digital Industries Operations Software, to lead an Agentic AI team, based in Kitchener, Ontario – shipping real agent capabilities fast, while staying tightly aligned with the shared platform architecture and standards set across the program.

In this leadership role, you will lead and build the Canada’s Agentic AI team, and drive the development of secure, scalable, customer‑ready platforms and shape the future of industrial AI.

Siemens Digital Industries Operations Software is a suite of integrated digital solutions to engineer, simulate and operate manufacturing operations across industries. Operations Software includes our product portfolio in manufacturing engineering (COMOS, Tecnomatix, NX CAM, …) & production operations (Win CC, Scada, PCS 7 / neo, Opcenter, Insights Hub, …). The portfolio helps organizations across many different industries to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance decision‑making by providing real‑time visibility and control across manufacturing and business processes.

Formula 1 cars, ships, mobile phones, space exploration vehicles, food & beverages, pharmaceuticals and many of the other objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and produced using our software.

We’re redefining the industrial world using data and AI to make production:
Agile, Adaptive, Autonomous. Eliminate productivity boundaries for today’s and tomorrow’s production operation. Join our mission to build the most comprehensive next generation AI‑native Industrial Operations Software portfolio as the new operation system for industry in the age of AI. With us you have the chance to now apply AI to where it really matters:
In the physical world of an industrial production and engineering of real things.

As part of Siemens Operations Software (OPS‑SW), the Technology, Data Fabric & Agentic AI organization provides the technology foundation that enables the next generation of industrial software. Its portfolio includes AI Production & Engineering Systems, Data Fabric, Agentic AI frameworks, connectivity platforms, semantic data models, cloud‑native architectures, and industrial AI services that power autonomous, scalable, and intelligent operations across the OPS‑SW portfolio.

• Lead and grow the team – recruit, manage, and develop a team of AI/ML engineers and developers; own delivery, team health, and performance
• Ship agent capabilities – drive the design, build, and delivery of specific agent capabilities from prototype to production‑ready features
• Deliver against the system – build on the shared frameworks, APIs, and orchestration patterns defined by the R&D Leader; contribute back improvements rather than diverging
• Stay aligned, move fast – translate the global platform roadmap into a local team backlog and remove blockers so the team ships without waiting on the wider program
• Stay hands‑on – participate in architecture discussions, review code and technical designs, and make sound day‑to‑day technical decisions with your team
• Own quality and reliability – ensure your team's work…