Applied AI Engineer

Location: Remote, Canada

Job Summary

You will build the AI runtime, retrieval, guardrails, and evaluation that make the platform's AI features work in production - with cost, latency, and safety treated as first-class engineering constraints. We build on proven commercial models and win on integration, domain knowledge, and evaluation discipline.

You'll report to the Head of AI Platform Engineering and join a small, senior founding team building the platform from the ground up.

The opportunity: ship AI that customers depend on daily in mission-critical workflows - not demos.

Why This Role Is Different

• Applied, not research. We use proven commercial models and win on integration, retrieval, orchestration and safety validation. Fine-tuning is an optional track, not the goal.
• Domain-first, not tech-first. Domain knowledge, delivered through retrieval and evaluation, is the moat, not model weights. You will invest early in your customers' domain.
• Production-first. We ship AI that customers depend on daily. Demos don't count; reliability, cost and safety do.
• Platform and product. You will build reusable AI capability while enabling products to ship features fast.
• A founding role. As a found
• ing AI hire, you will set the patterns and evaluation discipline the team adopts, and help hire the team.
• Value-based. You will validate with product teams and customers and prioritise by value, building what moves outcomes rather than what is novel.
• Additional Locations: Poland, Virtual, Remote, Germany