artificial intelligence (AI) consultant

"If you are excited about applying to LLMs to tackle real-world challenges in government procurement, this is a perfect opportunity for you. Be a part of the team of research and machine learning scientists building deployable real-world ML applications from ground up and get mentored by some of the best minds in AI during the process." - Maithrreye Srinivasan, Machine Learning Scientist and Amor Provins, Product Owner, Advanced TechnologyAbout the RoleThis is a paid Residency that will be undertaken over a twelve-month period with the potential to be hired by our client, Publicus, afterwards (note: at the discretion of the client). The Resident will report to an Amii Scientist and regularly consult with the client team to share insights and engage in knowledge transfer activities. Successful candidates will be members of a cross-functional project team with backgrounds in ML research, project management, software engineering, and new product development. This is a rare opportunity to be mentored by world-class scientists and to develop something truly impactful.About the ClientPublicus is Canada's fastest growing govtech company, building the data and intelligence layer for government procurement: helping businesses find and win public-sector contracts and helping governments cut waste, prevent fraud, and buy Canadian. We millions of fragmented, multimodal procurement records into searchable, trusted intelligence. We are AI-native by default: AI is part of everything we build, product and operations alike, which lets a small team move at a pace a far larger one cannot. A central objective of this initiative is to transform how governments and businesses interact with procurement documents by reducing manual review, accelerating information retrieval, and improving data quality. Through intelligent automation, Publicus aims to lower procurement processing costs, improve operational efficiency, and provide trusted procurement intelligence that supports faster, more informed public sector decision-making.In collaboration with Amii, Publicus is developing next-generation AI capabilities for government procurement document intelligence through the generation of realistic synthetic multimodal procurement documents, including adversarial variants that closely resemble authentic procurement documents while containing safe, non-sensitive data. These datasets will be used to train, evaluate, and benchmark multimodal AI models, enabling robust information extraction and reliable deployment within secure government environments.About the ProjectThis project develops advanced AI capabilities for government procurement document intelligence using Document AI, computer vision, optical character recognition (OCR), Vision Language Models (VLMs), and Large Language Models (LLMs). The goal is not a research artifact but a robust, deployable multimodal pipeline that understands, extracts, validates, and benchmarks key information from complex government documents - RFPs, contracts, invoices, and supporting procurement records - and runs reliably in secure, low-compute government environments.A core component of the project is developing realistic synthetic multimodal procurement documents to overcome the limitations of publicly available procurement datasets, which are often incomplete or heavily redacted. The Resident will generate synthetic and adversarial document variants, investigate state-of-the-art document understanding models, benchmark and fine-tune multimodal AI systems, and develop reliable extraction pipelines that improve robustness, efficiency, and deployment readiness for secure, low-compute environments.Required Skills / ExpertiseAre you passionate about building great solutions? You'll be presented with opportunities to both personally and professionally develop as you build your career. We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual with a solid background in machine learning, large language models, along with proven