AI Engineer

Mawer Investment Management•Calgary, AB

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Many companies are hiring people to use AI systems such as orchestrators and prompt engineers leveraging an AI system such as Claude Enterprise. That's not this role. This role is for the person keen on building those AI systems. We're building an enterprise AI platform from the ground up — a model-agnostic infrastructure layer connecting our firm's data, documents, and business logic to large language models in ways that are safe, reliable, and repeatable. It is our internal AI operating system which every team at Mawer will come to depend on. We have only recently released this internal AI operating system and are looking for help to continue to build it out.

Requirements

Software engineering background — you've shipped production systems, not just prototypes
Comfortable building services, APIs, data pipelines, and internal tools
Exposure to LLM application patterns: RAG, vector databases, orchestration, agents, tool calling, embeddings, model evaluation
Experience with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, observability, or security practices
Financial services or investment management industry exposure
All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Responsibilities

Design the core platform — examples of specific work include building a “knowledge base” via LLM ingestion and retrieval within an asset manager context and expanding/honing the tools/capabilities available to our internal agents
Build the integration layer connecting LLMs to internal data, documents, APIs, and business workflows
Create reusable, Mawer-specific, patterns and templates to enable firm orchestrators
Define standards for reliability, security, observability, evaluation, and governance
Evaluate emerging frameworks and architectures, deciding what earns a place in our stack