Senior AI Engineer (AI Automation)
Canada4h ago
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Key details
- Location
- Canada
- Work style
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Data & ML
- Focus area
- AI / ML
- Posted
- 4h ago
Skills
About the role
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior AI Engineer (AI Automation) based in Canada.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy intelligent automation solutions that transform how Product, Product Marketing, and Design teams operate. In this role, you will build AI-powered agents, applications, and automated workflows that eliminate repetitive tasks and accelerate decision-making across the product lifecycle. Working directly with non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams, you will turn complex business needs into practical, production-ready AI solutions. You will leverage cutting-edge models, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and modern development tools to deliver meaningful productivity gains. As a senior individual contributor, you will have significant autonomy to define priorities, own projects end to end, and establish reusable technical components. This is an opportunity to shape AI adoption across a globally distributed organization where innovation, speed, engineering excellence, and measurable impact are highly valued.
Accountabilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered agents, applications, and automation workflows that help Product, Product Marketing, and Design teams improve productivity and focus on higher-value activities.
- Identify repetitive manual processes and transform them into intelligent automations, enabling teams to operate more efficiently and scale their output without increasing operational overhead.
- Work directly with embedded product and business teams to understand their challenges, identify underlying needs, and translate informal requests into effective technical solutions.
- Develop agentic solutions using advanced AI models and technologies, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and observability tools.
- Build applications that provide teams with direct access to customer insights, business intelligence, and relevant data to support better-informed product and marketing decisions.
- Develop and maintain reusable AI components, shared agents, internal applications, and automation frameworks that accelerate future development and reduce duplicated engineering effort.
- Take ownership of the complete development lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and defining requirements to prototyping, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Rapidly transform early-stage ideas into functional prototypes, enabling stakeholders to test and evaluate working solutions within hours rather than relying on lengthy specifications.
- Deliver production improvements and fixes to shared AI agents and applications quickly, responding to user feedback and maintaining high standards of reliability and usability.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to follow established technical standards, participate in code reviews, and leverage shared infrastructure to ensure production quality and long-term maintainability.
- Build strong relationships with non-technical users, ensuring that the AI solutions developed are intuitive, practical, reliable, and consistently adopted in everyday workflows.
- Evaluate where AI automation can generate meaningful value and exercise sound technical judgment when traditional software solutions or human intervention are more appropriate.
- Use AI-assisted development tools daily to accelerate coding, experimentation, debugging, and solution delivery.
- Establish priorities independently, manage ambiguous technical challenges, and drive initiatives forward with minimal supervision.
- Contribute to a culture of rapid experimentation, continuous feedback, documentation, and engineering excellence across a globally distributed team.
- Strong software engineering experience with Python or TypeScript, including the ability to develop, maintain, and deploy production-quality code rather than relying exclusively on low-code automation platforms.
- Advanced practical expertise in artificial intelligence and modern AI development, with daily experience building agentic applications using current frontier models.
- Hands-on experience with key AI engineering technologies and concepts, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model evaluation (evals), and observability.
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI agents, intelligent applications, and automated workflows that solve real business problems.
- A portfolio or concrete examples of AI-powered solutions you have personally built, demonstrating technical depth, practical application, and measurable impact.
- Proven experience translating requirements from non-technical stakeholders into effective technical solutions, including the ability to identify the underlying problem rather than simply implementing the initial request.
- Strong judgment in evaluating when AI is the right solution, understanding its limitations, and determining when alternative approaches are more effective.
- Demonstrated experience building AI tools or internal applications that have been successfully adopted and consistently used by non-technical teams.
- Daily experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent technologies to improve development speed and productivity.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including code quality, maintainability, testing, documentation, and production deployment.
- Ability to build reusable components and scalable automation frameworks that can be maintained, extended, and adopted across multiple teams.
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams on technical standards, code reviews, shared infrastructure, and production reliability.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and make sound technical decisions independently.
- Proven ability to manage complex initiatives from initial concept through production deployment, requiring minimal direction and demonstrating strong ownership of outcomes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working closely with Product, Product Marketing, Design, and Engineering stakeholders.
- Adaptability, curiosity, and a continuous learning mindset, with the ability to stay current with rapidly evolving AI technologies and development practices.
- Ability to work effectively within a globally distributed, fully remote, asynchronous-first organization.
- Availability for approximately six hours of daily working-hour overlap with the team's core schedule, generally within the 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time window.
- Comfortable communicating through Slack, written documentation, and regular cross-functional collaboration.
- Willingness to operate in a high-ownership environment where priorities can evolve quickly and independent decision-making is essential.
- Fully remote working arrangement, offering flexibility to work from an eligible location in Canada.
- Globally distributed and asynchronous-first working environment.
- Significant autonomy and ownership over technical projects, priorities, and implementation decisions.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies, frontier models, and advanced agentic systems.
- Direct collaboration with Product, Product Marketing, Design, and Engineering teams.
- Opportunity to develop AI solutions that have measurable organization-wide impact.
- High-speed development environment that encourages rapid prototyping, experimentation, and same-day production improvements.
- Opportunity to build reusable AI infrastructure and establish best practices for intelligent automation.
- No required business travel or onsite attendance.
- No on-call responsibilities.
- Collaborative engineering culture with access to shared infrastructure, technical standards, and peer code reviews.
- Opportunity to contribute to meaningful initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial intelligence, national security, and crime prevention.
- Professional growth within a rapidly evolving technology environment that values technical excellence, ownership, continuous learning, and innovation.
Requirements
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