Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — AI / Agentic Software

Carnaby Fox

Toronto, CAN

Full-time

Mid-Senior

Hybrid

CAD 185,000

Discovered 3 weeks ago

Full-stack software engineeringTypeScriptPythonGoReactSQL

Free

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Forward Deployed Engineer role focused on software engineering, AI, product, and business operations.

Work directly with portfolio companies to build, deploy, operate, and improve production AI and agentic systems end-to-end.

The role emphasizes production ownership and measurable outcomes rather than presentation-heavy solutions work.

Location: Toronto, Canada.
Work model: Hybrid, with a minimum of three office days per week and four preferred.
Travel: Two to three days per week to portfolio company locations.
Employment: Full-time.

Embed with portfolio companies, understand their workflows, and identify high-leverage opportunities for agentic software.
Build integrations, prompts, evaluations, UI surfaces, and agentic workflows, then launch production systems.
Monitor and tune systems after launch, adjust autonomy and gating, track outcomes, and improve workflows.

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