Be Boring. Make Money.™ is our investment approach, but we are anything but dull. We are a diverse, passionate team united by our commitment to provide our clients with financial peace of mind and our desire to create one of the best companies in the world.
A career with us will be demanding; however, the experience will also be dynamic, supportive, intellectually stimulating, and above all, meaningful. We take pride in doing things a little differently than other investment firms. Innovative ideas, diverse opinions and experiences, and teamwork are expected and rewarded regardless of title or tenure.
Dedicated to our people, we have consistently been recognized as a preferred employer, receiving awards such as Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2026), Alberta Top Employers (2026), and Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employer (2025).
Full Time, Contract (4 Months)
January – April 2027
Location: Calgary, AB
The Opportunity
Mawer is looking for an AI Orchestrator Student to help scale our investment research process using the internal AI platform we've built. We want a curious systems thinker who can understand how investment work gets done, map workflows end to end, identify where AI can add value and turn promising ideas into reliable solutions.
Consider the investment lifecycle: screening, deep-dive analysis, decision journaling, portfolio monitoring and risk management. You'll work closely with research analysts, portfolio managers and engineers to connect these activities, not just build isolated tools. This isn't primarily a build-from-scratch engineering role, but you'll be hands-on.
We're particularly interested in students approaching graduation, ideally in their final academic term, who may want to explore a full-time opportunity after the placement. Any future role would depend on mutual fit and business needs.
What Makes This Opportunity Different
Our team actively embraces AI experimentation. We work with a wide range of model APIs and AI coding tools, as well as self-hosted GPUs for open-weight models and, where useful, fine-tuning. You'll explore these capabilities in the context of real investment research problems, with feedback from people who use the results.
Duties and Responsibilities
What You'll Work On
- Connected research workflows - explore how screening, company analysis, decision journaling and monitoring fit together, and where AI can make the overall process better
- Intelligent monitoring and decision support - synthesize company developments and market events, track changes in investment thinking and surface risk signals or questions worth investigating
- Research data and knowledge systems - help make investment information consistent, accessible and reusable through existing data, retrieval and AI tools
Key Responsibilities
- Work with analysts and portfolio managers to understand research workflows end to end, ask thoughtful questions and identify opportunities where AI could improve the process
- Design and prototype connected AI workflows using existing models, agents, prompts, data and tools; collaborate with engineers when deeper integrations are needed
- Use AI-assisted coding to build and iterate on practical solutions, rather than waiting for every detail to be specified
- Evaluate outputs for accuracy, source quality, reliability and usefulness; learn from user feedback and document important trade-offs
- Take ownership of a focused deliverable, communicate what you've learned and adapt as priorities and AI capabilities evolve while following through on promising work
Who You Are
- You have relentless curiosity. You want to understand how businesses work, how investors think and how AI can help. Prior finance experience isn't required.
- You're a connector, not a silo. You see how screening feeds analysis, analysis feeds monitoring and monitoring feeds risk review. You improve the overall workflow, not just a point solution.
- You ship, not just theorize. You've prototyped something using AI, can explain why and how, and care whether people use it. You don't need to be a software engineer.
- You're adaptable and you follow through. You enjoy exploring new tools and can shift direction when evidence changes, without losing sight of delivering useful results.
- You're comfortable wearing different hats. One day you're mapping a research process, the next prototyping a workflow or discussing results with an analyst. You ask good questions and collaborate well.
Valuable Experience
- Hands-on experience building with AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar; personal, academic and hackathon projects count
- Experimentation with open-weight models on GPUs, at home or in academic or research settings; experience evaluating or fine-tuning models is a plus, not a requirement
- Genuine interest in understanding businesses, investment research, financial analysis or capital markets; professional experience is not required
- Experience with LLMs, prompts, agents, workflow automation, APIs or data tools; familiarity with Python or SQL is helpful
- Ability to explain why you built something, how the pieces fit together, what you tested and what you learned
Why Mawer?
- Directly contribute to the firm’s growth as a global, independent investment manager.
- Learn and work within a high-performing team that has consistently delivered exceptional long-term investment results and high levels of client satisfaction.
- Be a part of a meritocracy in which the quality of ideas supersedes hierarchy; where every role is valued, and every voice heard. At Mawer, talented team members can progress quickly, regardless of tenure or experience.
- Our unique culture, which is integral to who we are and (we think) a competitive advantage. Our culture is shaped by our core values (integrity, putting clients’ interests first, excellence, teamwork, and long-term thinking) and key behaviours (curiosity, candour, accountability, and appreciation), which are much more than words on a page. They guide the way we operate, make decisions, and communicate every day.
- We offer a flexible work environment with a blended workplace approach tailored to the unique needs of each department and team. This allows employees to seamlessly combine in-person and remote work experiences, fostering collaboration, promoting work-life integration, and empowering our team members to thrive in a dynamic, interconnected professional setting.
To apply:
We're keen to understand what you've built, why and how, rather than your title, years of experience or toolkit. School, personal and independent projects all count. Tell us about a problem you spotted, the AI workflow you tried, how you tested it and what you’d improve next.
- Send us your resume and a short note telling us about a problem you spotted, the AI workflow you tried, how you tested it and you’d improve next.
- Submit your full application by November 25, 2026, to: https://www.mawer.com/careers/
All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada and currently enrolled in a post-secondary program and returning to full-time studies or graduating following the work term.
We believe experience comes in many forms and we’re committed to adding new perspectives to our team. If your experience is close to what we’ve outlined, we encourage you to apply.
At Mawer, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. We strive to attract, hire, develop, and retain the best people from a wide variety of backgrounds/experiences and create an environment where unique ideas and perspectives are heard and valued. We believe a diverse and inclusive culture fuels innovation and enables more effective decision-making across the firm, helping to improve investment performance, strengthen client partnerships, and create more value for all stakeholders: clients, employees, owners, and society.
We administer all practices and programs without discrimination and strive to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request accommodation or special assistance during the application process. If you need accommodation or assistance, please contact us at hraccommodation@mawer.com.
Our processes are people-driven. We may use technology for scheduling, communication and screening but we do not use AI for candidate assessment, or selection; those decisions are made by our team.
About Mawer
Established in 1974, Mawer Investment Management Ltd. is an independent firm that provides world-class, global investment management services to a broad range of institutional and individual clients. We are proud of our reputation as one of Canada’s most respected investment management firms and strive to earn such respect by continually delivering long-term investment excellence, developing strong client partnerships, and living our core values.
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We thank all applicants and advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
