At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare. With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work. At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey. Join us in redefining healthcare — so it doesn’t just survive, it thrives. To learn more about PointClickCare, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn. **Travel to Office expectations** For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include, but not limited to, onboarding, team events, semi-annual and annual team meetings. For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid, there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include, but not limited to, weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role. PointClickCare is searching for a Principal AI Engineer who will lead and design AI systems across multiple SaaS solutions following our AI Design Patterns, defining technical standards and reusable patterns for reasoning, tool use, and coordinated action. This role will be part of a team which drives enterprise-wide AI enablement by defining strategy, evangelizing adoption, and delivering measurable business impact. It identifies and prioritizes high-value AI use cases, builds scalable AI solutions, and creates playbooks and patterns to accelerate implementation. Through innovation hubs and close collaboration with product, engineering, and operations, the team transforms prototypes into production-ready solutions. Additionally, it invests in talent development, equipping teams with the skills and tools to embed AI across the organization and leads governance of AI solutions across the organization.  To succeed as a Principal AI Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be highly innovative, creative, accountable, collaborative, and passionate. The Principal AI Engineer partners with cross-functional teams to transition prototypes into secure, observable production solutions and establish playbooks, evaluation frameworks, and platform components to accelerate adoption. Additionally, the Principal AI Engineer mentor's teams and ensures alignment with Responsible AI, security, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities - Set the technical vision and reference architecture for agentic AI across applications—defining org-wide standards for reasoning loops, tool use/function calling, memory, safety, and interoperability. - Build and govern reusable platform components—model broker & multi-model routing, orchestration services, evaluation harnesses, prompt/versioning stores, and telemetry—to accelerate adoption across teams. - Develop and refine advanced prompting strategies for LLMs. -Test, evaluate, and analyze the performance of LLM and other GenAI models. - Model routing, orchestration services, evaluation of harnesses, prompt/versioning stores, and telemetry—to accelerate adoption across teams. - Drive cross-functional roadmaps and integration standards across OCIO and business teams—setting API/versioning contracts, optimizing LLM/agent cost performance, and mentoring engineers to raise the bar. - Evaluation of leadership establishes offline/online evaluation methodologies for agent behavior and safety, with dashboards tied to business outcomes. - Be the go-to Subject Matter Expert (SME) and internal AI expert for relevant enterprise applications, senior leadership, vendors, business partners and internal team members while staying ahead of emerging trends and advising on best practices - Identify, prioritize and execute AI use cases with clear business outcomes - Coach and hold vendors accountable to our best practices and milestone deliverables - Be a coach/mentor for other engineers on AI maturity, including performing peer reviews, leading technical knowledge sharing sessions, establishing engineering best practices, approving pull requests and improving the overall quality of the technical solution - Perform other tasks and duties as assigned Qualifications we are looking for: - Model serving and cost/perf optimization: experience with model broker patterns, multi-model routing, and serving stacks - Good understanding of Salesforce Agentforce and Boomi Agentic AI platform capabilities is highly desired - Mastery in DevOps processes and tools - Mastery in GITHUB and troubleshooting complex versioning and DevOps issues - Mastery in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) to iteratively deliver complex solutions - Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal self-management and leadership skills - Self-starter with the ability to deliver without supervision, influence and motivate other team members - A continuous learner – you must enjoy acquiring and sharing knowledge and wisdom with others - A seasoned great team player and coach and internal leader to partner with cross-functional teams and other areas of practice like BA, QA & Operations - Analytical mind that is forward thinking, with an aptitude to solve unique, ambiguous, and complex problems with broad impact - A great communicator that can easily explain complex ideas, anticipate potential objections and persuade others, often at leadership levels, to adopt a different point of view - An excellent self-manager, being able to handle high pressure situations $179,000 - $199,000 a year At PointClickCare, base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package. The USD base salary range for this position is $179,000-199000 (not overtime eligible) + bonus + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by job and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by job-related skills and knowledge, relevant experience including professional and lived experience, and/or work location. Your recruiter can share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process. PointClickCare Benefits & Perks: Benefits starting from Day 1! Retirement Plan Matching Flexible Paid Time Off Wellness Support Programs and Resources Parental & Caregiver Leaves Fertility & Adoption Support Continuous Development Support Program Employee Assistance Program Allyship and Inclusion Communities Employee Recognition … and more! 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