Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments from architecture through adoption across complex client environments.
• Own programme-level outcomes across concurrent workstreams, including time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, scalability, and commercial metrics.
• Drive ambiguous business problems to production systems through rapid experimentation.
• Architect and govern solutions across identity, data, security, governance, platforms, and multi-system workflows.
• Shape AI strategy, value architecture, ROI backlogs, use-case prioritization, and multi-year adoption roadmaps with client executives.
• Publish reusable blueprints, patterns, and accelerators; lead architecture sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions.
• Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards for the FDE practice.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
• At least 7 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• At least 1 year designing and deploying production agentic solutions, including agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, or workflows.
• At least 7 years of AI platform experience, including OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models, and building multi-provider abstractions.
• At least 7 years leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight, resource allocation, and direct-report development.
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment and experience leading enterprise AI deployments.
• Experience with enterprise AI architecture, team development, senior stakeholders, and executive workshops or architecture sessions.

Compensation

• Annual base salary range: CAD 100,300 to CAD 216,700 for British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
• The employer states compensation varies by office location, role, skills, and experience; the range is a guideline for full-time employment.