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AI Platform Engineer

Req ID: 1464860
Category: Digital – SALARY
Brand: Compass Digital
Location: Toronto, ON
Posting Date: September 18, 2025

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Who Are We?

We are CDAI—the data and artificial intelligence engine of Compass Group North America. We design and deliver custom, in-house solutions tailored to the unique complexities of food service and hospitality. Our work is grounded in strong data foundations, layered with AI to enhance forecasting, streamline operations, and enable better, faster decision-making across Compass Group. With deep integration into the business and a commitment to white-glove service, CDAI empowers associates, clients, and customers through innovative, future-forward technologies.

What’s in it for you?

Join an award-winning culture. We have been recognized for being a Great Place to Work, in addition to being selected as a FORTUNE Global 500 Company, Best Workplaces Retail & Hospitality, and FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies.
The opportunities with us are endless. As the world’s largest food and support services company, we offer an extensive range of learning and career opportunities for all our associates.
Health & Safety. The health and safety of our associates, clients and guests has always been our top priority. We have the right processes in place to ensure our teams have the support they need to stay safe, while helping to keep our guests safe.
Health Benefits. For our eligible associates, we offer comprehensive health, vision, and dental care coverage.
A Focus on Mental Health and Wellness. just now is our Mental Health and Well-Being initiative that was created to share credible resources with our associates and the communities we serve on a variety of topics, including mental, physical, spiritual, and financial wellbeing. Visit our Stronger Together Compass website at www.strongertogethercompass.com. We also have an Employment Assistance Program which provides our associates with access to 24/7 support, resources, and information.
We are as diverse as our guests. We believe diverse and inclusive environments support innovation and collaboration, and benefit our associates, clients, and customers. We are committed to Listen, Learn, and Act and our Diversity Inclusion Action Councils (DIAC) are associate led groups that seek to foster inclusion through cultural awareness, engagement and appreciation of diversity. We are Stronger, Together!

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We’re looking for an AI Platform Engineer with strong backend engineering skills and a passion for building systems that support AI-driven products. In this role, you’ll help design and maintain a robust, scalable foundation that connects backend services with AI systems, while also contributing to tools and workflows that empower our AI engineers. This position sits at the intersection of AI/ML engineering, data infrastructure, and platform development. You’ll collaborate closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ensure backend services are reliable, performant, and aligned with product goals. At the same time, you’ll help shape internal tooling, development environments, and best practices to support technical workflows.

Job Summary

If you were to come on board as our AI Platform Engineer, we’d ask you to do the following:

Build and maintain robust backend services and APIs to support AI features and data applications (e.g., using FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Snowflake)
Design infrastructure and data flows to support inference, experimentation, feature engineering, and system observability.
Maintain production-grade reliability, security, scalability, and monitoring for AI systems and services.
Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to productionize models and integrate AI and ML systems into user-facing applications.
Support deployment, versioning, and maintenance of APIs, shared libraries, and tooling.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform automation, and developer environments to improve team velocity.
Partner with Product Managers, AI Engineers and Data Scientists to prioritize and deliver high-impact work.

Think you have what it takes to be our AI Platform Engineer? Here’s how we’ll know:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong backend expertise.
Proficiency in Python, SQL, and backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, or similar).
Experience working with databases and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, PostgreSQL), and related ORMs or query frameworks (SQLAlchemy)
Familiarity with ML pipelines, model serving, and data-intensive applications.
Comfort working in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Exposure to MLOps tooling (e.g., MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, BentoML)
Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams.
Interest in AI observability, feature stores, or experiment tracking systems.

Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.

For accommodation requests during the hiring process, please contact PeopleHub@compass-canada.com for further information.