Staff AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Evaluate the capabilities of new agents, protocols, models, and infrastructure, including MCP, A2A, UCP, and ACP, and advise on whether to adopt, experiment, monitor, or bypass them.

• Analyze the functionality of AI agents within the platform, beginning with the cloud intelligence layer: discovery, merchant context, identity and permissions, authorized actions, failures, and assessment.

• Develop working prototypes and reference code to demonstrate successful implementations, failures, and production requirements.

• Collaborate with product or engineering partners to integrate the best concepts into the product or ensure a smooth handover.

• Represent clearer.io at Shopify DotDev and similar events.

• Foster relationships with platform teams and translate insights into product proposals.

• Assess opportunities for merchant agents and shopper agents with substantiated evidence.

• Communicate new technology through demonstrations, design reviews, collaborative sessions, and practical guidance.

• Share insights with the Applied AI lead.

• Make decisions regarding the roadmap and experimentation, including determining when to cease an experiment.

• Report to the CTO and work alongside product leadership and engineering teams in the UK and Vietnam, as well as the Applied AI lead.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in software engineering, including the design, construction, and operation of cloud software, APIs, and integrations utilized by customers.

• Familiarity with the Shopify platform and its ecosystem.

• Experience in the eCommerce sector.

• Practical experience with production AI, encompassing the deployment and assessment of an agent or AI application with actual users.

• Proficient coding and code review skills; capable of creating a small functional integration.

• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to articulate design decisions, options, and trade-offs.

• Working knowledge of agent and commerce protocols, knowing when to utilize a simple API call.

• Ability to comprehend unfamiliar specifications, test assumptions, and make informed decisions.

• Recent experience in testing new technologies and forming a clear perspective on their applicability.

• Proven track record of influencing beyond a single team, setting architectural direction, and establishing effective patterns.

• Confidence in presenting and building external relationships.

• Experience working with teams across different time zones.

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Your birthday off - a fully paid day dedicated just for you, every year.

• Give Back Day - a paid day each year to volunteer for a cause you are passionate about.

• Bonusly peer recognition - real-time acknowledgments tied to our values, with points that can be exchanged for tangible rewards.

• Clearer Together - fully funded 5-night trip to one of our global offices for team members who embody our values.

• Stopover - an annual funded day with the local team near one of our offices.

• 10 days of PTO, along with 10 floating holidays per year, plus 15 paid holidays, including a year-end break from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day.

• Participation in mandatory government-run programs: Employer Health Tax, Employment Insurance, and Canada Pension Plan.

• Manulife insurance starting on your first day.

• Remote working options available.