Blend360 is hiring an AI and Data Engineer

We are building a team of engineers in Edmonton, AB, Canada to develop a first-of-its-kind synthetic persona platform — an AI system that models human behavior, preferences, and decision-making at scale. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data engineering and applied AI: you will design the pipelines that power the personas and the models and the platform deployments that bring them to life. This is not a maintenance role. The platform is being built from the ground up, and every technical decision you make will shape what it becomes. You will work alongside researchers, data scientists, and product engineers in a small, high-trust team where curiosity and ownership are the norm. What You Will Do - Design and build a scalable platform and the data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve structured and unstructured data to AI models - Develop and iterate on AI/ML components — including LLM-based agents, embedding models, and behavioral simulation layers — that power synthetic persona generation - Architect and maintain the data infrastructure underpinning persona modeling: feature stores, vector databases, data lakes, and real-time serving layers - Collaborate with researchers to translate persona logic and behavioral frameworks into working system components - Write production-quality code, participate in code reviews, and contribute to engineering standards for the team - Monitor model and pipeline performance in production; identify and resolve issues proactively - Contribute to system design discussions and help shape the technical roadmap