About the role
What You’ll Do
Lead the AI domain at Upriver: Take ownership of our agent architecture and help define its next phases, standards, and direction. Solve hard, unsolved problems: Work on challenges in AI agents, reasoning over complex systems, and autonomous decision-making that don’t yet have clear playbooks. Build production AI: Design, implement, evaluate, and deploy AI systems used by real customers. Be outward-facing: Publish technical blogs, benchmarks, and papers; represent Upriver in the AI and data community. Move fast with autonomy: Own problems end-to-end with minimal guidance, working directly with founders. Deliver real customer value end-to-end: take features from idea to production, see them used by customers, and iterate based on real-world impact.
What We’re Looking For
Strong background in AI / ML (applied research, systems, or both). Experience building or experimenting with hands-on software development. Comfortable operating independently and making foundational technical decisions. Strong communication skills and interest in writing, publishing, and sharing work publicly. High ambition and desire to grow into a technical leadership role. Extra: Hands-on experience experimenting with large language models (LLMs),
Why Upriver
Define a new category: Be part of a team figuring out how AI agents actually work inside real data platforms, and build a category leader product. High ownership, high trust: You’ll make real architectural and product decisions early on. Top-tier team: Work with exceptional engineers at a very high bar. Join at the inflection point: Strong early traction, a fresh seed round, and the opportunity to grow rapidly with the company as it scales.
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About Upriver
Upriver | AI Data Engineering - around the clock.
Data engineering is breaking under its own complexity.
What used to be a few pipelines is now an ecosystem - warehouses, orchestrators, transformation layers, and code, all tightly connected and constantly changing. The work that should be about building and shaping data is buried under investigation, tracing, and fixing.
Upriver changes that.
Upriver is the AI Data Engineering Platform. It connects to your warehouse, orchestrator, and code, builds a living understanding of how everything works, and handles the full task across data engineering - resolving incidents, building new data products, migrating systems, and maintaining what already exists.
The engineer stays in control. The platform handles the work.
Work that used to take days gets done in minutes. New engineers ramp in days, not months. Knowledge that used to live in people’s heads becomes permanent.
Stop investigating. Start architecting.
Go Upriver.
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About the role
What You’ll Do
Lead the AI domain at Upriver: Take ownership of our agent architecture and help define its next phases, standards, and direction. Solve hard, unsolved problems: Work on challenges in AI agents, reasoning over complex systems, and autonomous decision-making that don’t yet have clear playbooks. Build production AI: Design, implement, evaluate, and deploy AI systems used by real customers. Be outward-facing: Publish technical blogs, benchmarks, and papers; represent Upriver in the AI and data community. Move fast with autonomy: Own problems end-to-end with minimal guidance, working directly with founders. Deliver real customer value end-to-end: take features from idea to production, see them used by customers, and iterate based on real-world impact.
What We’re Looking For
Strong background in AI / ML (applied research, systems, or both). Experience building or experimenting with hands-on software development. Comfortable operating independently and making foundational technical decisions. Strong communication skills and interest in writing, publishing, and sharing work publicly. High ambition and desire to grow into a technical leadership role. Extra: Hands-on experience experimenting with large language models (LLMs),
Why Upriver
Define a new category: Be part of a team figuring out how AI agents actually work inside real data platforms, and build a category leader product. High ownership, high trust: You’ll make real architectural and product decisions early on. Top-tier team: Work with exceptional engineers at a very high bar. Join at the inflection point: Strong early traction, a fresh seed round, and the opportunity to grow rapidly with the company as it scales.
Not the right fit? Search for Founding AI Engineer jobs in Engineer, British Columbia, Canada
About Upriver
Upriver | AI Data Engineering - around the clock.
Data engineering is breaking under its own complexity.
What used to be a few pipelines is now an ecosystem - warehouses, orchestrators, transformation layers, and code, all tightly connected and constantly changing. The work that should be about building and shaping data is buried under investigation, tracing, and fixing.
Upriver changes that.
Upriver is the AI Data Engineering Platform. It connects to your warehouse, orchestrator, and code, builds a living understanding of how everything works, and handles the full task across data engineering - resolving incidents, building new data products, migrating systems, and maintaining what already exists.
The engineer stays in control. The platform handles the work.
Work that used to take days gets done in minutes. New engineers ramp in days, not months. Knowledge that used to live in people’s heads becomes permanent.
Stop investigating. Start architecting.
Go Upriver.