AI Engineer

Helio Home; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental care

Vision care

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Education support

Parental leave top up

Job summary

Jetson is hiring in Canada for an AI-native software engineer. The role focuses on integrating AI deeply into software development, emphasizing code quality, design, and maintainability while applying AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude to accelerate delivery.

You will work on AI-powered product features, balancing latency, cost, and reliability, with a pragmatic view on when AI adds real value over traditional approaches.

Qualifications

• Fluency with AI-assisted development and tools.
• Strong production experience building and maintaining systems.
• Experience shipping AI-powered features using LLMs or embeddings.
• Pragmatic judgment on when to use AI.

Skills

AI-assisted development

Software engineering fundamentals

Curious learner

Tools

Cursor

Copilot

Claude

Job description

About Jetson

Jetson is on a mission to accelerate the transition of 100 million homes across North America away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy use. We believe in a future that is 100% electric and 100% better.

Homes are one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, yet adoption of solutions like heat pumps remains slow due to cost and complexity. Jetson is solving this by building the first fully vertically integrated home electrification company — making clean energy simple, transparent, and affordable.

We rely heavily on technology, automation, and data to scale this impact. At Jetson, we value people who are excellent at their craft, curious about new tools (including AI), and motivated to continuously improve how work gets done.

Who You Are:

• An AI-native software engineer. You’ve integrated AI deeply into how you build software—not as a novelty, but as a core part of your workflow. You ship faster because of it, with higher standards than ever before. You’ve developed a strong intuition for when to trust the model, when to push back, and how to steer it towards the results you want.
• Grounded in engineering fundamentals. You understand that AI-assisted development still requires taste, judgment, and rigor. You care about code quality, testability, system design, and maintainability. You know that shipping fast means nothing if the code becomes unmaintainable or the system falls over in production.
• Curious and constantly learning. The AI landscape changes weekly. You stay on top of new models, tools, and techniques—not out of hype, but because you're genuinely interested in finding better ways to build. You can separate signal from noise and identify which developments actually matter for shipping products.

What We Need:

• Fluency with AI-assisted development. You’ve used tools like Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or similar to meaningfully accelerate your work. You understand prompting, context management, and how to get reliable results from LLMs in development workflows. You can teach others to be more effective with these tools.
• Strong software engineering foundations. Production experience building and maintaining systems that matter. You write code that others can understand, test, and extend. You’ve debugged production issues, designed APIs, and made architectural decisions you had to live with.
• Experience building AI-powered product features. You’ve shipped features that use LLMs, embeddings, or other AI capabilities directly—whether that’s intelligent search, natural language interfaces, content generation, or agent-like functionality. You understand the unique challenges: latency, cost, reliability, evaluation, and graceful degradation when models behave unexpectedly.
• Pragmatic judgment about when to use AI. Not every problem needs an LLM. You can identify where AI genuinely adds value versus where traditional software is simpler, cheaper, and more reliable. You make these tradeoffs thoughtfully.

How You Will Grow:

• Pioneer AI-native development practices at scale. You’ll help define how a growing engineering organization builds software in the age of AI—establishing patterns, workflows, and standards that make the whole team more effective.
• Apply AI to hard, real-world problems. Home electrification involves scheduling, optimization, anomaly detection, customer communication, and complex operational workflows. You’ll find high-leverage opportunities to apply AI capabilities to problems that genuinely matter to both our customers and our business.

Shape what's possible. We're early in understanding how AI changes what a small team can accomplish. You’ll push those boundaries and help us build more, faster, and better than should be possible for our size.

Job Type:Full-time, Permanent

Pay: We are open to considering candidates at several levels. Our compensation is structured to meet or exceed the market standard.

Benefits

• Dental Care
• Extended Health Care or Health Insurance
• Vision Care
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Education Support
• Parental Leave Top Up

Work Location: In person - Kitchener, ON

U.S. Roles

Jetson is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact us.

Canada Roles

Jetson is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive hiring. We do not discriminate on any ground protected under applicable human rights legislation. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us.