<p>🚀 <strong>We're Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — AI / Agentic Software</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>📌 POSITION DETAILS</strong></p><p><strong>📍 Locations: | Toronto, Canada</strong></p><p><strong>🏢 Work Model: Hybrid</strong></p><p><strong>📅 Office Requirement: Minimum 3 days/week — 4 days preferred</strong></p><p><strong>💼 Employment: Full-time</strong></p><p><strong>🎯 Experience: 3–6 years</strong></p><p><strong>💰 Base Salary: $185,000+ Base</strong></p><p><strong>📈 Equity: Competitive equity</strong></p><p><strong>✈️ Travel: 2–3 days/week to portfolio company locations</strong></p><p><strong>🌎 Visa: H-1B transfers, OPT transfers & relocation supported</strong></p><p><strong>👥 Hiring: Multiple openings</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></p><p>We’re looking for <strong>Forward Deployed Engineers</strong> who can operate at the intersection of <strong>software engineering, AI, product, and business operations</strong>.</p><p>This is a highly hands-on, <strong>Palantir-style FDE opportunity within a software holding company</strong>. You will work directly with portfolio companies, understand their operational challenges, identify high-impact opportunities for AI and agentic automation, and then <strong>build, deploy, operate, and improve production systems end-to-end</strong>.</p><p>This is <strong>not a presentation-heavy solutions role</strong>. You will be expected to write production code, work directly with operators and executives, and take ownership of measurable outcomes.</p><p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><p>🔹 <strong>Embed with portfolio companies</strong></p><ul><li>Work directly with portfolio companies to understand their operating models, workflows, and business priorities.</li><li>Build relationships with GMs and operational leaders and quickly earn their trust.</li><li>Identify the <strong>2–3 highest-leverage workflows</strong> where agentic software can create meaningful impact.</li></ul><p>🔹 <strong>Build and deploy AI-powered solutions</strong></p><ul><li>Design and build the initial “wedge” for each deployment.</li><li>Develop integrations, prompts, evaluations, UI surfaces, and agentic workflows.</li><li>Launch the first production agentic loop using the organization’s core platform.</li><li>Own the entire technical delivery cycle rather than handing work between specialized teams.</li></ul><p>🔹 <strong>Operate systems after launch</strong></p><ul><li>Monitor and tune deployed systems in production.</li><li>Adjust autonomy levels and gating based on real-world performance.</li><li>Track outcomes and continuously improve deployed workflows.</li><li>Transition stable solutions to portfolio operations teams when appropriate.</li></ul><p>🔹 <strong>Act as the technical partner to business leaders</strong></p><ul><li>Serve as the technical face of the organization to portfolio company GMs.</li><li>Translate ambiguous operational challenges into clearly scoped technical solutions.</li><li>Set expectations, communicate trade-offs, and ensure stakeholders understand the value created by the system.</li></ul><p>🔹 <strong>Build reusable organizational knowledge</strong></p><ul><li>Bring lessons from deployments back to HQ.</li><li>Identify recurring patterns across companies and verticals.</li><li>Codify successful approaches into reusable playbooks.</li><li>Help accelerate future deployments by turning individual solutions into repeatable systems.</li></ul><p><strong>Required Technical Skills</strong></p><p>You should be comfortable owning a production system <strong>from backend through frontend and data layer</strong>.</p><p><strong>Core requirements:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong full-stack engineering capability.</li><li><strong>TypeScript or Python</strong> for backend development.</li><li>Strong <strong>React</strong> experience.</li><li>Strong <strong>SQL</strong> proficiency.</li><li>Ability to independently own end-to-end technical delivery.</li><li>Experience programming with <strong>Go and/or TypeScript</strong>.</li><li>Experience working with modern AI development tooling and coding agents.</li><li>Strong understanding of LLMs / foundation models and agentic workflows.</li></ul><p><strong>AI / Agentic Engineering Experience</strong></p><p>A major requirement is experience building <strong>real production AI systems</strong>, not simply experimenting with AI or creating demonstrations.</p><p>Strong candidates will have experience with:</p><ul><li>Production LLM applications</li><li>Agentic workflows</li><li>AI-powered automation</li><li>Evaluation frameworks / evals</li><li>Autonomy gating</li><li>Outcome tracking</li><li>AI developer tools and coding agents</li><li>Integrations and workflow automation</li><li>Production deployment and post-launch iteration</li></ul><p><strong>We are specifically looking for engineers who have shipped AI/agentic software to external users.</strong></p><p><strong>Business & Operator Mindset</strong></p><p>Technical ability alone isn't enough for this role.</p><p>You should be able to:</p><ul><li>Understand how a business operates.</li><li>Read and interpret a <strong>P&L</strong>.</li><li>Identify operational inefficiencies.</li><li>Translate business problems into technical opportunities.</li><li>Determine where AI can create the highest leverage.</li><li>Work effectively with non-technical executives.</li><li>Navigate ambiguity without requiring highly prescriptive requirements.</li><li>Balance technical quality with business outcomes.</li></ul><p><strong>Ideal Background</strong></p><p>The strongest candidates may come from backgrounds such as:</p><p><strong>Forward Deployed Engineering</strong></p><ul><li>Palantir-style FDE</li><li>Deploy-and-operate engineering</li><li>Customer-facing product engineering</li></ul><p><strong>Full-Stack / Product Engineering</strong></p><ul><li>Senior full-stack engineer with direct customer exposure</li><li>Product engineer who has shipped production AI systems</li><li>Generalist engineer capable of owning an entire technical solution</li></ul><p><strong>High-Growth Startups</strong></p><ul><li>Founding engineer</li><li>Early-stage engineer</li><li>Engineers who have operated with significant autonomy in high-growth environments</li></ul><p><strong>Business / Operator Exposure</strong></p><ul><li>Experience working with PE-backed or portfolio companies</li><li>Consulting environments</li><li>Vertical SaaS</li><li>Portco environments</li><li>M&A integration or similar operational transformation work</li></ul><p><strong>Communication & Leadership</strong></p><p>You should demonstrate:</p><ul><li>Strong executive presence.</li><li>Polished communication with C-suite executives and GMs.</li><li>Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.</li><li>Strong stakeholder-management skills.</li><li>Ability to build trust quickly with business operators.</li><li>Comfort working in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments.</li><li>Ability to independently drive projects from problem discovery through deployment and measurable outcomes.</li></ul><p><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></p><p>✅ 3–6 years of relevant experience in full-stack, customer-facing software/product engineering or forward deployed engineering</p><p>✅ Production experience with LLMs / agentic software</p><p>✅ Strong TypeScript or Python</p><p>✅ React + SQL proficiency</p><p>✅ Full-stack ownership capability</p><p>✅ Experience with AI development tools and coding agents</p><p>✅ Customer-facing / embedded engineering experience</p><p>✅ Strong business and operator instincts</p><p>✅ Ability to work directly with executives and GMs</p><p>✅ Strong communication and executive presence</p><p>✅ Willingness to travel frequently to portfolio company locations</p><p>✅ Ability to work in a hybrid environment</p><p><strong>Strong Candidate Archetypes</strong></p><p>⭐ Founding Engineers</p><p>⭐ Early-stage startup engineers</p><p>⭐ Forward Deployed Engineers</p><p>⭐ Product Engineers with strong AI experience</p><p>⭐ Generalist Full-Stack Engineers</p><p>⭐ Engineers from high-growth technology companies</p><p>⭐ Customer-facing engineers who have owned production deployments</p><p><strong>Tech Environment</strong></p><p><strong>Languages:</strong> TypeScript, Python, Go</p><p><strong>Frontend:</strong> React</p><p><strong>Data:</strong> SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg</p><p><strong>AI:</strong> LLMs, Foundation Models, Agentic Workflows, Evals</p><p><strong>Architecture:</strong> Event-driven systems</p><p><strong>Development:</strong> AI-native development tools and coding agents</p><p><strong>This Role Is NOT a Fit If...</strong></p><p>❌ Your experience is limited to solutions engineering demos or prototypes without production ownership</p><p>❌ You have primarily worked as a backend-, frontend-, or mobile-only specialist and cannot own full-stack delivery</p><p>❌ You have not built or coded with modern AI development tools</p><p>❌ Your experience consists primarily of short consecutive stints</p><p>❌ You have not shipped production AI/agentic systems to real users</p><p>❌ You prefer narrowly defined requirements and do not enjoy ambiguous business problems</p><p><strong>Compensation & Benefits</strong></p><p>💰 <strong>Base Salary: $185,000+Base</strong></p><p>📈 <strong>Competitive Equity</strong></p><p>🧑 💻 <strong>Full-time employment</strong></p><p>🏢 <strong>Hybrid work model</strong></p><p>✈️ <strong>Frequent exposure to portfolio companies and high-impact deployments</strong></p><p>🌎 <strong>Visa transfer and relocation opportunities available</strong></p><p><strong>Why This Opportunity?</strong></p><p>This is an opportunity to work on <strong>high-impact AI deployments where engineering directly changes how businesses operate</strong>.</p><p>Instead of building isolated features, you will repeatedly:</p><p><strong>Discover → Design → Build → Deploy → Operate → Measure → Scale</strong></p><p>You’ll work closely with business operators, ship production AI systems, learn from each deployment, and help turn those learnings into reusable solutions across an entire portfolio.</p><p><strong>📍 Locations</strong></p><p><strong>Toronto, Canada</strong></p><p>Candidates should be comfortable with a hybrid schedule and <strong>2–3 days per week of domestic travel</strong> to portfolio company locations.</p><p><strong>How to Apply</strong></p><p>If you're a <strong>Full-Stack Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Founding Engineer, or AI Engineer</strong> who has shipped production LLM/agentic systems and enjoys solving ambiguous business problems, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p>📩 <strong>Apply through LinkedIn or send your updated resume for consideration.</strong></p><p>#Hiring #ForwardDeployedEngineer #FDE #AIJobs #AIEngineering #AgenticAI #LLM #GenerativeAI #FullStackEngineer #SoftwareEngineer #TypeScript #Python #React #SQL #ProductEngineering #Palantir #StartupJobs #TechJobs #NewYorkJobs #SanFranciscoJobs #TorontoJobs #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #EngineeringJobs</p>