AI Engineer

Cross Border Talents; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 255,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Impactful AI projects

Job summary

Cross Border Talents is seeking an AI Engineer for Portless to design, build and deploy AI-powered systems for scalable logistics and e-commerce tasks. The role is remote across North America with roughly 6 hours overlap with ET and a full-time engagement.

You will own the ML lifecycle, work with LLMs and CV, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver impactful AI features, requiring strong Python and ML framework skills and production experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of AI/ML engineering experience.
• Strong Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience deploying models to production.
• Must be authorised to work in the US (no sponsorship).
• Canada/Mexico candidates only if they already hold US work authorisation.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI/ML models for logistics and e-commerce use cases.
• Work with LLMs, computer vision and predictive analytics.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship AI-powered features.
• Own the full ML lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, deployment.
• Monitor and improve model performance in production.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Python

ML frameworks

Production deployment

US work authorization

US work eligibility for Canada/Mexico

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

AI Engineer (Portless) Location: Remote, North America (~6h overlap ET) Engagement: Full-time, remote Salary: $180,000 – $230,000 (EUR 155,615 – EUR 198,842) Industry: E-commerce / logistics / AI

Portless is transforming e-commerce logistics with AI. We are looking for an AI Engineer to design, build and deploy intelligent systems that automate and optimise supply-chain operations at scale.

What you'll do

• Build and deploy AI/ML models for logistics and e-commerce use cases
• Work with LLMs, computer vision and predictive analytics
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship AI-powered features
• Own the full ML lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, deployment
• Monitor and improve model performance in production

What we're looking for

Essential

• 4+ years of AI/ML engineering experience
• Strong Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Experience deploying models to production
• Must be authorised to work in the US (no sponsorship)
• Canada/Mexico candidates only if they already hold US work authorisation

Nice to have

• Experience in logistics, e-commerce or supply chain
• LLM fine-tuning and RAG experience

What we offer

• Salary of $180,000 – $230,000
• Fully remote with ~6h overlap ET
• Opportunity to shape AI in a fast-growing space