Senior Applied AI Engineer — Production Systems

Morningstar, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 102,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Global collaboration tools

Job summary

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build applied systems that bring AI capabilities into production.

This role focuses on data pipelines, LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks to create reliable, maintainable systems. The candidate will design durable architectures, enable swappability for new models, and work across cloud and local inference with strong emphasis on governance and operability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including production API and data-pipeline design.

Responsibilities

• Integrate with hosted LLM inference for extraction, classification, and agent orchestration; evaluate models for cost/perf tradeoffs.

Skills

Python

LLM integration

API design

AWS

FastAPI

TypeScript/Node.js

Data pipelines

Security & privacy

Latency & reliability

Tools

FastAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST APIs

Terraform

Job description

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build applied systems that bring AI capabilities into production.

This role focuses on data pipelines, LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks to create reliable, maintainable systems. The candidate will design durable architectures, enable swappability for new models, and work across cloud and local inference with strong emphasis on governance and operability.