Staff AI Engineer, Agentic Systems

AI is changing how software gets built. We’re looking for a Staff AI Engineer to work out which changes matter for clearer.io, prove them with working code, and help our teams ship them. You’ll report to our CTO and help make eCommerce clearer. your impact You’ll spot which developments in agentic AI, commerce protocols and the Shopify ecosystem can help our merchants grow. Then you’ll prove them with working software and help our teams turn them into product. You’ll start with our cloud intelligence layer, and be clearer.io’s voice in the ecosystem at events like Shopify DotDev. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to the CTO. You’ll work closely with product leadership, our engineering teams in the UK and Vietnam, and our Applied AI lead. We’re fully remote. You’ll be based in Toronto (close to the Shopify ecosystem), the UK or Ireland. No regular office days, but we get together when it helps. what you'll do Assess new agent capabilities, protocols, models and infrastructure (including MCP, A2A, UCP and ACP), and recommend whether we adopt, experiment, monitor or skip each one, so we invest where merchants get real value. Review how AI agents work with our platform, starting with the cloud intelligence layer: discovery, merchant context, identity and permissions, approved actions, failures and evaluation. Build working prototypes and reference code that show what works with our product, what breaks, and what production would need. Carry the best