Senior Software Engineer, AI Products

Cambio AI Inc.; Southwestern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech startup is seeking an AI Engineer to enhance their platform with AI-driven features and tooling. You'll design, implement, and optimize AI solutions to improve customer experience and operational efficiency. Required qualifications include 5+ years in software engineering and strong Python skills, with an advantage for those experienced with LLMs. This hybrid role requires in-person collaboration 2–3 days a week. Join us to make a significant impact in the real estate industry's journey toward net zero.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

Collaborative culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including system design and API development.
• 1+ years developing AI-powered products.
• Strong hands-on expertise in LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-driven features for the platform.
• Develop internal automation tools to improve productivity.
• Build and maintain a robust ML/LLM pipeline.
• Optimize AI model performance and costs.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams.

Skills

Python proficiency

Experience with AI products

System design

Problem-solving mindset

Collaboration skills

Tools

AWS

Django REST framework

PostgreSQL

Next.js

OpenAI API

Job description

About Cambio

Cambio is a software platform for world‑class real estate decarbonization. We help commercial real estate owners and tenants bring their real estate portfolios to net‑zero using a machine learning‑driven, end‑to‑end real estate sustainability platform. Our mission is to take the real estate industry into the climate action era.

We are proud to be the fastest growing startup in our category, with world‑class partners and investors including Y Combinator, Google, the U.S. Department of Energy, Stanford University and Fifth Wall. We are seeking team members who are passionate about building transformative products, enthusiastic about problem‑solving, and excited to work at the forefront of climate and real estate technology. Join us on our mission to achieve net zero by 2050.

Things Our Engineers Love

• Mission‑driven: Climate can’t wait. We’re building real solutions for one of the most carbon‑intensive industries — real estate.
• Hypergrowth: We've tripled our ARR last year and we’re on track to do it again.
• AI‑forward: We're tripling our investment in AI to supercharge our platform and help customers decarbonize faster.
• World‑class team: Ex‑Google, Bain, Faire, One Medical, OMERS, Goldman Sachs, and more.
• High ownership: Join early, ship fast, and help shape the product, team, and culture from the ground up.
• Competitive compensation + meaningful early‑stage equity

The role

As an AI Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in integrating large language models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) solutions into our platform and internal systems. Your work will directly impact customer experiences, operational efficiency, and product innovation.

What You Will Be Doing

• Build & Ship AI Based Features – Design, implement, and optimize AI‑driven features for the platform, enhancing customer experience and business impact.
• AI‑Powered Automation & Tooling – Develop LLM‑based internal automation tools to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve team productivity.
• Scalable AI Infrastructure – Build and maintain a ML/LLM pipeline, ensuring robust, efficient, and scalable deployments.
• Performance & Cost Optimization – Improve AI model performance, balancing speed, quality, and infrastructure costs.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration – Work with product, engineering, and data teams to define AI/LLM use cases and share best practices.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including system design, distributed systems, API development, and CI/CD.
• 1+ years of experience developing AI‑powered products
• Strong proficiency in Python with hands‑on expertise in LLMs.
• Problem‑Solving Mindset: Ability to tackle ambiguous AI challenges and develop scalable, efficient AI solutions.
• Collaboration & Communication: Comfortable working with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to define and implement AI‑driven features.
• (Bonus) Experience with building and deploying AI agents, AI frameworks such as LangChain, RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) pipelines and vector databases.

Our Tech Stack

• Infra: AWS, Fargate, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQS, CDK, Github, retool
• Backend: Django REST framework, Celery
• Frontend: Next.js, Tailwind css
• LLM: AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Claude

Logistics

• Work Authorization: Authorization to work in the United States or Canada is required.
• Location: This is a hybrid role requiring 2–3 days of in‑person collaboration per week.

If you thrive on creating well‑crafted products and systems that have a disproportionate impact on the real estate industry’s path to net zero, we invite you to join our team. Apply now to embark on this journey with us.