Apply to Forward Deployed Engineer
emergiTEL is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for our client in the Software industry. This is a Permanent role.
Compensation: $185,000 - $240,000/year
Location: Toronto, Canada
Job Description (English)
About the Role
- Work directly with portfolio companies to understand operational challenges and identify high-impact opportunities for AI-driven automation and agentic software.
- Embed with client organizations and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout deployment and adoption.
- Build, deploy, and optimize production-grade agentic systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Design and develop integrations, automation workflows, prompts, evaluations, user interfaces, and supporting backend services.
- Travel to portfolio company locations as needed to support implementations, stakeholder alignment, and operational success.
- Monitor deployed solutions, adjust autonomy levels, and ensure successful transition to operational teams once stable.
- Capture best practices and reusable deployment patterns to accelerate future implementations across the portfolio.
Candidate Profile
- 3–6 years of experience in full-stack software engineering, product engineering, solutions engineering, agentic engineering, or forward deployed engineering.
- Strong generalist engineer capable of owning end-to-end delivery across frontend, backend, data, infrastructure, and deployment.
- Experience building and operating production AI, LLM, or agentic software solutions for real users and business workflows, including evaluations, autonomy controls, and outcome tracking.
- AI-native builder who actively leverages AI development tools, coding assistants, and software agents to automate manual workflows and accelerate delivery.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Python, React, and SQL.
- Experience programming in Go and TypeScript is highly desirable.
- Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to build trust and communicate effectively with executives, operators, and business stakeholders.
- Strong executive presence and polished communication skills, with the ability to confidently engage C-Suite leaders, General Managers, and operational stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous, non-technical business problems into scoped, practical technical solutions.
- Comfortable working in a high-performance environment with exceptionally high hiring standards.
- Experience with AI-native development tools, automation platforms, and software agents is highly valued.
- Comfortable traveling and working on-site with portfolio companies 2–3 days per week as needed.
Preferred Background
- Experience working with portfolio companies, consulting environments, private equity-backed businesses, or vertical SaaS organizations.
- Prior experience in customer-facing engineering roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Agent Engineer, Agentic Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Deployment Engineer.
- Strong professional tenure with well-known startups or high-growth technology companies.
- Experience shipping production systems rather than only prototypes or demonstrations.
- Founders, founding engineers, and highly entrepreneurial candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Excellent academic pedigree with strong analytical ability and a track record of technical excellence.
- Ability to travel to portfolio company locations as required.
Technical Environment
- TypeScript
- Python
- React
- SQL
- Go
- LLMs and Foundation Models
- Agentic Workflows
- AI Evaluations and Outcome Tracking
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Apache Iceberg
- Event-Driven Systems
Vacancy Status / Statut du poste
This is an active position currently open for hiring.
Use of Artificial Intelligence / Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle
emergiTEL uses artificial intelligence to help identify and source candidates for this role. All assessment and selection decisions are made by our recruiters, a human is always involved, and no applicant is evaluated or rejected by automated means alone. / emergiTEL a recours à l'intelligence artificielle pour aider à identifier et à trouver des candidats pour ce poste. Toutes les décisions relatives à l'évaluation et à la sélection sont prises par nos recruteurs ; une intervention humaine est systématiquement assurée, et aucun candidat n'est évalué ou rejeté uniquement par des moyens automatisés.