Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Qureos

• $180K — $260K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years in full-stack engineering or solutions engineering
  • Proficient in TypeScript, Python, React, and SQL
  • Experience in deploying production-grade LLM applications
  • Knowledge of monitoring and evaluating AI systems
  • Direct experience collaborating with business operators
  • Ability to independently manage projects from concept to deployment
  • Effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with portfolio companies to assess workflows and challenges
  • Identify AI-driven solutions for improving operational efficiency and outcomes
  • Develop and deploy complete solutions, including backend and user interfaces
  • Monitor and optimize the performance and reliability of AI systems
  • Work closely with non-technical teams to convert needs into technical solutions
  • Oversee projects from initial discovery to stabilization post-deployment
  • Document successful technical approaches for future reuse

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility in days on-site
  • Competitive equity package
  • Opportunity for regular travel to work directly with teams at portfolio locations
  • Hands-on project work that impacts real-world operations
  • Chance to work in a fast-paced, innovative tech environment
Full Job Description
Full-time | Hybrid | Toronto | $180K-$260K

About the Role

We're looking for a AI 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 across other businesses.
  • Travel regularly to portfolio company locations and work closely with teams on-site.


What We're Looking For
  • 3-6 years of experience in full-stack engineering, customer-facing software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering.
  • Strong full-stack development skills, including TypeScript or Python, React, and SQL.
  • Experience building and deploying production LLM or agentic applications, rather than experimental demos alone.
  • Familiarity with evaluations, monitoring, autonomy controls, and measuring outcomes for AI-powered systems.
  • Experience working directly with customers, operators, or business stakeholders.
  • Ability to independently take a project from understanding the problem through implementation and production deployment.
  • Strong business judgment and the ability to understand operational workflows and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Comfortable communicating with both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Location & Work ModelToronto
  • Hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week in-office; 4 days preferred.
  • Approximately 2-3 days per week of domestic travel to portfolio company locations.
  • Compensation$180,000-$260,000
  • Competitive equity package


Technology
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • React
  • SQL
  • LLMs / Foundation Models
  • Agentic Workflows
  • Evals
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Event-driven Systems


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