Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments from architecture through adoption across complex, multi-stakeholder client environments.
• Own programme outcomes across concurrent workstreams, including time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability.
• Move ambiguous business problems to working production systems through rapid experimentation.
• Architect and govern solutions spanning identity, data, security, governance, platforms, and multi-system workflows.
• Advise CTO, CFO, and CISO stakeholders on AI reinvention strategy, value architecture, ROI backlogs, use-case prioritization, and adoption roadmaps.
• Create 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 cloud-native engineering experience, including 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 working with AI platforms, including OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models, and building multi-provider abstraction layers.
• At least 7 years leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight, resource allocation, and direct-report development.
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments and experience leading enterprise AI deployments.
• Experience managing engineering teams, defining enterprise AI architecture, and engaging senior stakeholders on strategy and investment.
• Experience leading executive workshops, architecture design sessions, or cross-functional technical engagements.

Compensation

• Annual base salary range for British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick is CAD 100,300 to CAD 216,700.
• The stated range is a guideline for full-time employment and may vary with office location, role, skills, and experience; offers may exceed the range.