Vice President of AI Platform Engineering Job Ottawa area,Ontario Canada,Software Development

League is building the agentic platform for healthcare: the harness, orchestration, and runtime that turn frontier and healthcare-native models into deployed intelligence inside member-facing care experiences
This is the layer that sits between the models and the member; the one that decides what an agent can do, what it can’t, how it composes with other agents, and how its work shows up in the product
We’re looking for a VP, AI Platform Engineering to lead the team that builds it. This role leads engineering for League’s agentic platform — the multi-agent orchestration runtime, agent harness, evaluation and guardrail infrastructure, and the developer surface that other teams at League use to ship domain agents into production
It is a peer to the AI Models leadership that owns the intelligence layer (Generalized Healthcare Intelligence: League’s portfolio of healthcare-native SLMs), the Data Platform leadership that owns the data substrate, and the AI Product leadership that owns the consumer-grade agentic experience
Together these functions form the Data & AI First Team that owns League’s bet on healthcare AI end-to-end
The agentic platform:
You own the engineering of League’s multi-agent orchestration runtime; the harness, framework, model-routing layer, and evaluation and guardrail infrastructure that runs every agent League ships
The platform is the layer between the models and the member; how good it is determines how much intelligence League can actually deploy
The developer surface:
You own the engineering of the platform that League’s teams and League’s customers use to build, simulate, configure, and evaluate agents; the SDK, tooling, simulation environment, and configuration surfaces that turn the agentic harness into a product the rest of League and the market build on
Success is measured by how much agent functionality ships across League and across League’s customers without going through your team
The team:
You lead the engineers and managers who build the agentic platform. Building the bench is part of the work: this org will grow with the platform, and your hiring bar will set the ceiling for what we ship
The First Team:
You sit on League’s Data & AI leadership team alongside the leaders of AI Models, Data Platform, and AI Product, where the bets that decide League’s healthcare AI strategy get made
The work runs both ways: shaping cross-cutting decisions on model strategy, evaluation methodology, and data contracts inside League, and carrying technical credibility into the conversations with customers and partners
Use AI tools as part of your daily workflow to enhance productivity, problem-solving, and decision-making (e.g., drafting, analysis, coding, research, or process automation)
Apply judgment and accountability when using AI by reviewing outputs for accuracy, bias, and quality before use
Continuously learn and adapt as new AI tools and capabilities emerge, incorporating them into your ways of working
Identify opportunities to improve how work gets done from personal productivity to team-level workflows by leveraging AI effectively
Operate with strong data responsibility and security awareness, especially when working with sensitive or regulated information
How this scales by level:

Benefits

Flexible medical and dental plans
Health, lifestyle, learning and family spending accounts
401(k) and RRSP matching programs
Employee stock option program (ESOP)
Flexible time off
Generous leaves (including parental and sabbatical)- Strong track record building high-performing engineering cultures and developing senior technical talent
Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence technical, customer, and executive audiences
Experience leading platform engineering teams that enable multiple product and engineering organizations
Deep understanding of AI platform architecture, infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
Pragmatic operator mindset with a focus on solving high-impact problems and shipping customer-ready solutions
Strong understanding of the modern AI ecosystem, including emerging platform, tooling, and deployment patterns
Experience partnering cross-functionally across Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Go-to-Market teams
Track record of delivering measurable business and operational impact through AI and platform engineering initiatives
Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance innovation, speed, and business value
Proven experience building and operating AI systems in production at enterprise scale
Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a practical, responsible way
Ability to balance efficiency with quality and sound judgment
Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new technologies

#J-18808-Ljbffr