Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Make build, wrap, or vet decisions and define validation standards for initiatives.
• Build agentic systems using tool/function calling, RAG, MCP integrations, multi-step orchestration, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Use the shared AI platform for model serving, model contracts, evaluation, monitoring, tool registry, and prompt guardrails.
• Set acceptance criteria, offline and online evaluations, and escalation triggers before building.
• Apply AI intake and risk categorization; design to governance standards, with formal approval by Regulatory, Privacy, and Legal.
• Contribute reusable templates, registered tools, or reference architectures and coach teams through reviews and office hours.

What you'll bring

• Six or more years building and delivering product-grade software, including production AI features using LLMs and/or imaging with tool calling, RAG, or agent orchestration.
• Full-stack development experience beyond notebooks and demonstrations.
• Ability to evaluate models, reason about failure modes, and establish a validation bar with senior stakeholders.
• Strong Python, cloud engineering, deployment, and API skills; AWS and Bedrock are preferred.
• Hands-on experience building evaluation harnesses and acceptance criteria and designing human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Healthcare, regulated-environment, PHI, MCP, tool-interface, consulting, solutions architecture, or forward-deployed experience is preferred.

Work authorization

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada at hire and must not require current or future employer visa sponsorship.

Compensation

• Base salary is CAD 140,000 to CAD 160,000 per year, depending on experience and geographic location.

Benefits

• Benefits include health, dental, vision, and mental health coverage, plus access to RRSP and TFSA plans without company matching contributions.
• The company provides a free whole-body scan to each team member and offers flexible vacation, growth opportunities, and weekly team connection time.