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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

C$100K – C$150K YearlyToronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)Full-time5h ago
Purpose of the Job:

We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who can bridge the gap between business strategy and real-world AI delivery.

This role is about more than building models—it’s about taking AI from idea to production, integrating it into core systems, and ensuring it delivers measurable business value. You will combine hands-on engineering expertise with practical AI implementation, helping teams adopt AI in a way that is scalable, secure and usable.

What you’ll do:

    You will play a lead technical role in designing and delivering AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise.

    Build and deliver AI solutions: 
    Design, build, test, and deploy AI-enabled applications, services, and workflows
    Work with LLMs, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks to solve real business problems
    Take solutions from prototype to production, ensuring they are reliable and scalable

    Own technical design: 
    Lead architecture and design for:LLM integrations
    Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
    Agent workflows and orchestration
    API and enterprise system integrations
    Ensure solutions are secure, reusable, and aligned with enterprise standards

    Drive engineering standards:
    Define and apply reusable patterns and best practices for AI delivery
    Improve how teams build, deploy, and scale AI solutions
    Contribute to responsible and governed AI adoption

    Support production and continuous improvement:
    Ensure solutions are production-ready (testing, monitoring, observability)
    Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and continuously improve systems
    Optimize for performance, cost, reliability, and user experience

    Partner across teams:
    Work closely with product, architecture, platform, security, and business stakeholders
    Translate business needs into clear technical solutions and delivery plans
    Influence decisions through technical expertise, not authority

What you bring:

    Engineering foundation: 

    Strong experience building scalable, distributed systems

    Deep knowledge of:
    APIs, microservices, and service-based architectures
    Cloud-native development (Azure preferred)
    CI/CD, containerization, and deployment automation
    Experience with event-driven systems, data pipelines and data platforms.

    AI / GenAI expertise:
    Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications in production

    Strong Experience with:
    Prompt design and evaluation
    Model limitations (hallucination, variability, context constraints)
    Agent design and orchestration workflows
    Tool/API integrations
    RAG and knowledge grounding patterns

    Delivery and operational mindset:
    Experience across the full lifecycle:
    Use case definition
    Solution design
    Integration
    Deployment
    Monitoring and optimization

    Strong understanding of:
    AI observability (quality, latency, cost) Reliability and system performance

    Risk, security, and governance awareness:
    Experience working in regulated environments

    Strong awareness of:
    Data privacy and security
    AI governance and controls
    Misuse prevention (incl. prompt injection risks)
    Auditability and human-in-the-loop safeguards