Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Full-time | Hybrid | Toronto | $180K–$260K

About the Role

We’re looking for aAI Deployment Engineer with 3–6 years of experience to work closely with portfolio businesses, understand their operational challenges, and build production-grade AI and agentic solutions that create measurable impact. This is a highly hands‑on engineering role. You’ll work directly with business operators and technical teams, taking projects from identifying the right opportunity through development, deployment, optimization, and handoff. You’ll have the opportunity to build systems that are actively used in real‑world operations rather than working solely on prototypes or internal tooling.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with portfolio companies to understand their workflows, pain points, and business priorities. • Identify high‑impact opportunities where AI and agentic workflows can improve efficiency or outcomes. • Build and deploy end‑to‑end solutions, including backend integrations, agent workflows, prompts, evaluations, and user‑facing interfaces. • Monitor production systems and continuously improve their reliability, performance, and level of autonomy. • Partner closely with general managers and other non‑technical stakeholders to translate business needs into practical technical solutions. • Take ownership of deployments from initial discovery through production rollout and stabilization. • Document successful approaches, technical patterns, and lessons learned so they can be reused…