Artificial Intelligence Scientist - Pre-sales (AI scientist - pre-sales)

You are an AI scientist who knows how to talk to clients without drowning everyone in jargon. Rather than limiting yourself to a single stack or staying behind a screen modelling, you jump in on pre-sales calls on short notice, you ask the right questions to scope a POC, then you deliver it from A to Z. You see an opportunity to automate a client flow with agents, you build the proof of concept; you hear about a computer vision use case on a production line, you figure out how to demonstrate it quickly. You work hand in hand with our salespeople and our pre-sales team, but you are the one who turns ideas into demos that close deals.

In practice, this means leading 1 to 3 POCs in parallel while jumping on several client (or internal) calls per week, across a range of technologies that goes from agents and large language models to computer vision and IoT. Nobody is going to tell you what to do day to day: you choose your priorities, you scope your work, you move things forward amid ambiguity. It is an environment made for curious people who see the pitfalls and bring them up positively, not for those who need all the information before making a move. You work on diverse projects that are not yet sold, so you have real influence on what we build at Vooban and at our clients.

Your day-to-day

• Understand a client's need, assess the ROI and define a POC scope that holds up
• Build proofs of concept from A to Z (the majority of your time), in Python or with open tools;
• Jump on client calls with the salespeople and pre-sales team to answer technical questions and explain in plain terms what we can (and cannot) do
• See a project's pitfalls, name them clearly and propose how we address them

The areas you will work on

• LLMs and agents as a priority: data extraction from emails and PDFs, workflow automation, contextualization on client data
• Computer vision and IoT second: physical quality control, automated visual sorting
• General machine learning and operations research occasionally, when the client context calls for it

Required qualifications

• You have a good 5 years of industry experience after your studies
• You reside in the province of Quebec and can travel to our Quebec City or Montreal offices a few times a year to take part in team activities and in-person meetings
• You hold a master's degree or a PhD in AI or a related field
• You have hands-on experience with agents for data extraction and workflow automation
• You have demonstrated your ability to move forward amid ambiguity and to define the framework of your mandates yourself
• You naturally explain complex concepts in plain terms, to technical and business people alike
• You have a real tinkerer's drive in AI: personal projects, side projects, you get up at night to make an idea work

Ideal profile

• A mix between an AI scientist and a salesperson: you see the technical possibilities AND you know how to bring them positively to clients
• Comfortable jumping on a client call with little preparation and expressing yourself clearly, without getting too deep into fine technical detail