AI Engineer — Student / New Grad (BC)

The short version — Canada Quant Labs is hiring student and new-grad AI engineers. You must be enrolled at a BC post-secondary institution or have recently graduated from one, and able to work from our Victoria, BC office (hybrid). No prior industry experience required — we hire for passion, personal projects, and coursework, not credentials. Part-time during the term, full-time in summer. CAD $28–$38/hour. The role We're Canada's open-weight model lab: we train, quantize, and deploy sovereign AI on Canadian Blackwell silicon — and everything we ship is public: weights, recipes, benchmarks, and the engineering log of what broke along the way. Our Hugging Face org is the resume. This posting is for students and fresh graduates in British Columbia: mid-degree, final semester, or recently finished. You don't need industry experience — most of what we do isn't taught anywhere anyway. You need curiosity about how these models actually work and the patience to measure things properly. We'll teach you the rest, and you'll be mentored directly by the senior engineers who built the pipeline. What you'll work on Real work, not busywork. Students here ship artifacts that go out under their own names: Quantization eval harnesses — run W4A16 and NVFP4 quants through reasoning, instruction-following, and long-context evals, and turn the results into the go/no-go evidence for what ships.Dataset pipelines — build, clean, and decontaminate the Canadian-corpora training and eval data (legal, medical, finance) that our domain models depend on.Inference benchmarks — throughput and latency profiles of vLLM serving on our DGX B300 capacity: reproduce published numbers, find where they break, document why.Model cards and engineering logs — write up what you measured. Our work is open by default; the write-up is part of the artifact, and your name goes on it. What you bring You're enrolled at a BC post-secondary institution, or recently graduated from one — CS, EE, math, physics, or adjacent. Self-taught with strong public projects works too: show us the repos.Solid Python. You can write a script that chews through 2 GB of logs without being told how, and you know what a virtualenv is.PyTorch is a plus — coursework or projects touching transformers or LLMs are even better, but neither is required.Genuine curiosity about open-weight models, quantization, and inference. You've read a model card for fun, or run a 7B on your own GPU just to see what happens.You can work from our Victoria, BC office (hybrid — some days remote, some days in the room with us). Nice to have Personal projects with artifacts — a trained model, a benchmark, a tool other people use.Kaggle competitions, hackathons, CTFs — anything with a scoreboard.Open-source contributions, however small — a merged typo PR still tells us you can navigate a strange codebase.A blog or write-ups about something you built or measured. Logistics Posted per BC pay-transparency requirements. Pay CAD $28–$38/hour, commensurate with year of study Hours Part-time during the academic term (10–20 hrs/week) full-time in summer Location Victoria, BC hybrid (must be able to work from the Victoria office) Eligibility Students enrolled at a BC post-secondary institution, or recent BC graduates Start Flexible rolling intake for fall, winter, and summer terms How to apply Apply below — a résumé and links to things you've built are all we need. No cover letter required; the note field is a few sentences about why CQL, not an essay. We read every application and reply within two weeks. The process: intro call → technical chat about a project you're proud of → offer. How To Apply Apply for this role Tell us who you are, attach your résumé, and link the project you're proudest of. Projects count more than credentials here. We reply within two weeks. Full name Email Links — portfolio / GitHub / LinkedIn, one per line optional Cover note — short, why CQL optional Résumé Drop your résumé here, or browse files PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT or MD max 10 MB Company Prefer email? careers@cql.ca