R&D Engineer - AI and Innovation

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

R&D Engineer - AI and Innovation Toronto, Ontario, Canada ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You'll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won't just contribute. You'll make things happen-fast. Overview The R&D Engineer is a researcher-practitioner - someone equally comfortable reading papers and shipping prototypes. They are responsible for staying close to the frontier of LLM and AI systems research, identifying ideas with practical value, and building POCs that demonstrate feasibility. These POCs are demoed to the team and, where validated, handed off to the Platform and AI Engineers to productionize. This person does not work in isolation - they collaborate closely with the rest of the team throughout the research-to-product pipeline. What You'll Do: - Monitor and synthesize developments in LLM systems, AI infrastructure, and adjacent research areas - Prototype and evaluate novel ideas with a fast feedback loop - build, demo, iterate - Extend and improve the existing agent and RAG SDKs with new retrieval strategies, agent patterns, and provider integrations - Evaluate new embedding models, reranking approaches, and retrieval architectures against the existing pipeline - Collaborate with the Platform and AI Engineers to hand off validated POCs - Produce clear documentation and demos that make research accessible to non-researchers - Contribute to discussions with the tech lead on long-term research direction

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