/roles — ROLE_421
Forward Deployed Engineer (Toronto)
Software holding company that buys and runs vertical software businesses and deploys AI agents across them
The role
- COMP
- CA$180K - CA$260K
- EQUITY
- Competitive equity
- LOCATION
- New York · San Francisco · Canada
- WORKPLACE
- Hybrid
- EXPERIENCE
- 3 - 6 years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- STACK
- TypeScript, Python, React, Snowflake, Go
- INDUSTRY
- AI, B2B, Enterprise, Software Development
The company
Permanent-capital holding company that acquires and operates essential vertical-software businesses on a centralized platform.
- STAGE
- scale-up
- FUNDING
- $250M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~80 people
- FOUNDED
- 2024
JD — the work
About the role
This is a hands-on forward deployed role at a well-funded software holding company: you would embed inside the businesses it owns, find the workflows where AI agents make the biggest difference, and put working systems into daily operations. The goal is running software, not slide decks, and every deployment sends reusable patterns back to headquarters so the next rollout in the same vertical goes faster. The setup is hybrid, and you will often be on the road visiting the businesses in the portfolio.
What you'll do
- Work inside portfolio businesses to learn how they run and find the two or three workflows where agents help most
- Ship the first agent-driven workflow at each business, writing the evals, prompts, integrations, and UI it needs
- Tune live systems after launch, dial their autonomy up or down, and hand them to operations once stable
- Be the technical point person for each business's general manager, setting expectations and earning trust in the system
- Bring lessons back to headquarters as repeatable playbooks so later rollouts in the same vertical move faster
What they're looking for
- Full-stack ability to deliver solo: Python or TypeScript on the backend, React on the front end, and SQL
- A record of shipping LLM or agent software to production, with evals, gated autonomy, and measured outcomes rather than demos
- Background in customer-facing or embedded engineering, for example as a forward deployed or solutions engineer
- Business judgment: you understand profit and loss, frame problems as technical projects, and win over non-technical stakeholders fast
- Based in or open to relocating to one of the company's hubs, and happy to visit portfolio businesses often