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Head of AI Engineering

12 hours ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada CommerceIQ Full time

Company Overview:

CommerceIQ's AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world's largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world's leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. 10 out of the top 12 CPG brands work with us, including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive, and Mondelez. We've raised over $200M from some of the top investors including SoftBank, Insight Partners, and Madrona. Learn more at

The Role:

We're looking for an Engineering Leader with a Data Science / Machine Learning background to head the incubation of CommerceIQ's next generation of AI-driven SaaS solutions. The Head of AI Engineering is both
hands-on and leadership-focused
: you will act as a
player-coach
, directly shaping the technical architecture of our AI platform while building and mentoring a team of engineers.

You will report directly to our cofounders to design and deliver advanced AI and agentic applications that push the boundaries of what is possible in applied AI for commerce. You will be accountable for scaling AI systems from research through production, ensuring that they create measurable business impact for the world's largest brands.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who has both
trained models and shipped them into production
, built
agentic applications
, and has a deep understanding of
machine learning systems at scale
.

This is a remote role based out of Toronto, Ontario. Please note that we are only considering candidates located in the Toronto area for this role.

What You'll Do:

  • Partner directly with the cofounders
    to set and execute the AI engineering strategy.
  • Hire, lead, and mentor a founding AI engineering team
    within our incubation group, growing both technical depth and organizational capability.
  • Act as a
    player-coach
    : contribute hands-on to architecture, model training, and backend engineering while scaling a team around you.
  • Design and build
    scalable ML infrastructure
    to support model training, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring at production scale.
  • Lead the development of
    agentic applications
    , including designing, training, and launching agents that operate in real-world customer environments.
  • Establish best practices for data quality, labeling, and ML pipelines, enabling rapid experimentation and continuous improvement.
  • Drive responsible AI development by ensuring reliability, ethics, safety, and performance in all models and agents shipped to production.
  • Collaborate closely with product, data science, and business stakeholders to translate research breakthroughs into customer-facing features.
  • Set engineering standards and build a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability.

What You'll Bring:

  • 5+ years
    of experience in backend software engineering, with
    2+ years leading AI/ML teams
    .
    Hands-on experience training AI/ML models
    , including foundation models, fine-tuned models, or specialized domain models.
  • Proven experience building and deploying agentic applications
    , with deep knowledge of agent design patterns and orchestration.
  • Strong track record of
    launching AI models and agents into production
    environments at scale.
  • Advanced expertise in
    machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
    .
  • Experience designing
    scalable data systems
    and pipelines for training and inference.
  • Fluency in backend and ML-oriented programming languages such as
    Python, Java, Scala, or C++
    .
  • Knowledge of modern ML toolkits and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, Ray, etc.).
  • Strong ability to balance hands-on technical depth with leadership, mentoring, and organizational building.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, with experience working directly with senior executives or founders.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.

Benefits & Perks:

The typical base pay range for this role is: $200,000 - $300,000/per year.

This base pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at CommerceIQ and will be narrowed based on a number of factors including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at CommerceIQ. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock options, as well as potential discretionary bonuses.

Check out our LinkedIn page to learn more about what it's like to work at CommerceIQ

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.