Hands-On AI Systems & Automation Engineer

TopHat HR; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TopHat HR is hiring on behalf of a client for an AI Systems & Automation Developer role. It is a hands-on position turning practical AI ideas into reliable tools across multiple businesses, from idea through testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

You will work with AI models, APIs, databases, automation workflows, dashboards, and business applications to build solutions that help teams work more efficiently and make better decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience with APIs, databases, and SQL.
• Experience using AI/model APIs and integrating into applications or workflows.
• Experience building a simple interface, internal tool, dashboard, or other usable front end around a technical solution.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to break down unclear problems into manageable steps.
• Understanding of software testing, deployment, monitoring, error handling, and maintaining production systems.
• Understanding of AI limitations, privacy, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AI-powered agents, workflows, internal tools, and dashboards that solve practical business problems.
• Integrate AI models with existing business applications, APIs, databases, and internal systems.
• Develop automation workflows that reduce repetitive manual work and improve operational efficiency.
• Use model APIs and other AI technologies to build useful, reliable business solutions.
• Create systems that provide source-backed answers, references, and alerts, allowing users to understand where information comes from.
• Build simple and intuitive interfaces or dashboards that make AI-powered tools useful and accessible to business users.
• Work with the Head of IT and business stakeholders to identify useful opportunities, define project scope, and determine practical solutions.
• Implement appropriate testing, permissions, logging, monitoring, and error handling to ensure systems are reliable and maintainable.
• Monitor AI-powered systems after launch and identify opportunities to improve performance, accuracy, and usability.
• Document solutions, workflows, integrations, and key technical decisions.
• Troubleshoot issues methodically and improve systems based on user feedback and real-world performance.
• Stay current with relevant AI tools, model capabilities, automation approaches, and development practices.
• Help teams adopt new tools by explaining how they work and how they should be used.

Skills

APIs

Databases

SQL

AI/Model APIs

Frontend basics

GitHub portfolio

Tools

Python

Git

SQL tooling

Job description

TopHat HR is hiring on behalf of a client for an AI Systems & Automation Developer role. It is a hands-on position turning practical AI ideas into reliable tools across multiple businesses, from idea through testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

You will work with AI models, APIs, databases, automation workflows, dashboards, and business applications to build solutions that help teams work more efficiently and make better decisions.