Agentic AI Software Backend & Platform Engineer

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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: Backend & AI Engineer

We are seeking a Backend & AI Engineer, for Siemens Digital Industries Operations Software to help build and scale our Agentic AI platform. The role focuses on solid backend engineering, AI/ML engineering, pipeline development, data processing, and production readiness. You will help build industrial-grade AI agent systems that augment and automate real business workflows in industrial operations. Working within an established architecture and alongside senior engineers, you will develop and integrate agentic capabilities that are trustworthy, scalable, and measurable — contributing to how agentic systems are built across the organization. 

With the resources of a large company and the energy of a software start-up, we have fun together while creating a world-class software portfolio. Our culture encourages creativity, welcomes fresh thinking, and focuses on growth — so our people, our business, and our customers can achieve their full potential.

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.

What will you do?

• Develop scalable backend services using Python 
• Contribute to AI pipelines including RAG configuration, evaluation, and quality validation
• Build and maintain data ingestion, preprocessing, and transformation pipelines 
• Implement APIs for agent orchestration, data services, and AI interaction layers 
• Support platform hardening including performance improvements, monitoring, and observability 
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD, deployment automation, and cloud infrastructure
• Help ensure platform reliability, uptime, and scalability using DevOps and SRE best practices 
• Contribute to compute, storage, and inference cost optimization while maintaining performance and quality 
• Follow governance, access control, and compliance processes across AI workloads 
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data science, engineering, and security to deliver AI features and integrations 
• Troubleshoot production issues and help continuously improve the platform's architecture and performance 
• The role would evolve in scope as the product and team evolves 

What you will bring:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related field.
• Over 2 years of backend development in the AI space
• Solid experience with Python backend development and familiarity with microservices architecture 
• Working knowledge of LLMs, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering 
• Exposure to agent application frameworks 
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines; familiarity with vector databases and/or knowledge graphs 
• Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure preferred; Azure OpenAI a plus) 
• Working knowledge of containerization and CI/CD 
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native or on-prem deployment (Docker, Kubernetes) 

What sets you apart:

• Exposure to multi-agent systems or orchestration frameworks 
• Familiarity with AI observability tools (e.g., Langfuse) 
• Awareness of enterprise AI governance, performance tuning, and security practices 
• Experience in regulated industries or enterprise platforms 
• Exposure to the NVIDIA AI stack (NeMo, NIM, Triton, NeMo Guardrails) 
• Mendix or comparable low-code integration experience 
• Industrial / OT background — OPC-UA, MQTT, MES, historians, or manufacturing data 
• Enterprise integration exposure (SAP, data fabric / streaming — Kafka) 
• Open-source contributions or published work in the agentic-AI / LLM space 

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

Join our Digital World

At Siemens Digital Industries Operations Software, flexibility is how we work – hybrid, built on trust and autonomy. We build technology that shapes the real world. You'll grow through real projects, strong technical peers, and global mobility, backed by the scale and benefits of an industrial operations software leader. We're committed to equality and inclusion, and we hire based on merit, skills, and impact. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

Our Benefits & Rewards

The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a wide range of health and wellness benefits to employees

Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities. At Siemens, we believe people who've had real experiences dealing with being different will excel as leaders. Let's foster a culture of creativity and innovation. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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