We are TRADER, a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands - AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, Dealertrack Canada and CMS - help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build agentic GenAI systems using modern frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen or Atomic Agents, taking the lead on translating product needs into scalable AI solutions and delivering production-ready implementations.
- Develop and maintain knowledge integration pipelines, including RAG architectures, custom model fine-tuning, vector search, and other grounding methods to ensure our AI systems have the right context for accurate, relevant outputs.
- Define evaluation strategies, build ground-truth datasets, and create automated test and monitoring setups to ensure stable long-term model performance and proactively detect issues such as drift or hallucination.
- Collaborate with engineering, data, and product teams to integrate AI components into platforms, workflows, and customer-facing products, designing clean APIs, robust pipelines, and scalable deployment patterns.
- Act as a hands-on expert for GenAI topics, mentoring peers, guiding solution architecture, and driving best practices in coding, testing, observability, and documentation across the organisation.
- Experiment with new tools, models, and architectures, identify high-impact AI opportunities, and build prototypes that can scale into production-ready solutions.
What you’ll bring:
- A degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or a related field.
- Experience building agentic GenAI systems in production (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, Atomic Agents, or similar frameworks).
- Strong coding skills in Python and experience with robust software engineering practices.
- Practical experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases, embeddings, or fine-tuning workflows.
- Strong understanding of common challenges in AI development (ground-truth evaluation data, monitoring, integration complexity, model drift).
- Experience deploying AI systems in a cloud environment and working with modern ML stacks.
- Familiarity with MLOps, prompt engineering, or LLM-based application design.
- Ability to explain complex AI topics in clear and actionable language to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- High motivation, ownership mentality, and a strong drive to build impactful AI products.
- Fluency in English; German is a plus.
The base salary range for this position for Canada is CAD 180K – CAD 200K.
This range reflects the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Based on the role the total rewards package may also include benefits, bonus, and other employee offerings.
- Gym discounts
- Employee and Family Assistance program
- Virtual wellness events
- Conferences & training budget
- Regular internal training programs
- Let us help you invest in your future with 3% matching towards your pension and multiple forms of income protection.
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus structure
- 3% CPP matching
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring: We use artificial intelligence (“AI”) in our hiring process, including to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.
Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.
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What We Do
AutoTrader.ca is the leading advertising partner for Canadian automotive retailers and manufacturers. With over 25.7 million visits a month and more than 6 million total mobile app downloads, our largest automotive marketplaces – AutoTrader.ca and AutoHebdo.net – are the #1 source for all things automotive in Canada. The company offers retailers and manufacturers access to a robust audience of new and used car shoppers, best-in-class advertising services and rich data insights. AutoTrader.ca is proud to be the first to offer a completely integrated digital retail experience for consumers and dealers on a major Canadian automotive marketplace.
