Homeoffice AI Engineer presso Factor

At Factor, we take a discovery-led approach to the adoption and implementation of generative AI.  We’ve investing in our R&D capabilities to build “0-to-1" native generative AI accelerators that aim to augment our delivery teams, transform our core contracting services portfolio, and unlock value for our clients.

The Factor R&D team takes a deep, exploration-oriented approach to ensuring that solutions deployed for production use are reliable, accurate, and useful. We’re a small group, and entire pursuits/projects are typically worked on by individual contributors, with open dialogue and collaboration encouraged to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas/approaches and distribute workloads. We provide access to leading AI code generation capabilities and tools to help speed up research, experimentation, and development, with the ability to provide additional resources if warranted.

We’ve leveraged everything from React and TypeScript/JavaScript for front-end and Python for the back-end for work in the past, but also utilize Office add-ins and more basic Streamlit interfaces where it makes sense. We have even built some prototypes entirely using custom GPTs! Most of the team haven’t mastered all these technologies, and we recognize that. But we also believe that it is entirely possible to learn through action and execution, as it has been our lived experience. The R&D team consists of a mix of talent, some with technical software development experience, and others without, but we are all capable of getting technical when we need to.  We use the stack that makes sense for each endeavour, driven primarily by usefulness to our teams and clients.

Full disclosure: we are not set up like a traditional development organization and tend to steer away from introducing more structure than absolutely necessary.  This is obviously a trade-off, but we find that this allows us to iterate quickly and fail fast, which ultimately leads to better execution. We see this as core to our culture, which favours individuals who are comfortable with uncertainty to a degree (we tend to pivot quickly when things don’t work) and able to adapt easily.

If you believe that you do your best work within a traditional multi-layered product organization with clear separation of responsibilities across product, UX, development, and engineering, this opportunity may not be the right fit for you. However, if you think you’d thrive in an environment that incentivizes exploration and favours the ability to learn and iterate quickly, then we’d love to chat.