Tech Talent International (TTI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune (phone hidden) companies to startups, small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US.

We are currently hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Kubernetes for our client in the Toronto area, which specializes in OS and secure toolkitdevelopment for AI and data stacks.

Role: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Kubernetes Type: Fulltime, Perm Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 as base salary depending on overall experience + stock options + benefits + unlimited vacation days Location: Onsite - downtown Toronto, ON, Canada We are seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join our clients'' Platform team and workdirectly with strategic customers to turn business problems into production AI and data systems.

This is a highly technical, customer-facing role for someone who can move between customerconversations, system design, data engineering, AI application development, Kubernetes, cloudinfrastructure, and production support.

In this role, you will own the path from discovery to production: understanding the customer''sworkflows and data, designing the solution, building and deploying it, and helpingthe customer adopt it in real operations.

This is an outcome-based engineering role.

Asuccessful engagement is not a demo, a prototype, or an installation.

It is a live, governed,adopted workflow that improves how the customer operates and is tied to a clear businessresult.

Responsibilities Embed with customer teams to understand business problems, workflows, data systems,constraints, and success metrics.

Define what success looks like for each engagement, including the target outcome,adoption path, production boundary, and measurable impact.

Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical scopes, architectures,implementation plans, and production outcomes.

Build and deploy AI and data applications on the platform, including agentic workflows,RAG systems, data pipelines, integrations, evaluations,



and operational automation.

Design and implement production data workflows across enterprise environments,including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, data quality, access control, andobservability.

Deploy and operate the platformin complex customer environments, including cloud,hybrid, on-prem, private cloud, and air-gapped infrastructure.

Work hands-on with Kubernetes, containers, networking, storage, identity, secrets,observability, and production troubleshooting.

Partner with customer engineering, platform, data, and security teams to get systemslive, governed, adopted, and measurable.

Participate in Pager

Duty-based production support for customer deployments, includingincident response, escalation, root-cause analysis, and follow-up remediation.

Turn customer-specific work into reusable patterns, playbooks, templates, and productfeedback for the company Qualifications 8+ years of experience across software, data, platform, infrastructure, or AI engineeringroles, including: 3+ years building LLM/AI applications such as RAG, agents, evaluations, workflow automation, or production AI systems. 5+ years working with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure in productionenvironments.

Strong experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Strong data engineering background, including pipelines, orchestration, transformation,data quality, access controls, and production data workflows.

Experience with a up-to-date data stack such as Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, orsimilar.

Experience building or deploying AI, data, or automation solutions in highly regulated oroperationally complex industries,



such as financial services, government, healthcare,energy, agriculture, supply chain, or industrial operations.

Ability to apply AI to real-world operational data, such as sensor data, geospatial data,logistics data, ERP data, field operations data, or forecasting data.

Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Python, Go,Type

Script, Java, or Scala.

Strong systems thinking across data, users, permissions, workflows, infrastructure,governance, and business processes.

Excellent customer-facing communication skills with engineers, operators, securityteams, executives, and business owners.

Strong ownership mindset: you care about production rollout, adoption, reliability,operational handoff, and measurable impact.

Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed. A Plus Experience in a forward deployed, professional services, solutions architecture,customer engineering, field engineering, or technical consulting role.

Experience delivering outcome-based customer engagements where success wasmeasured by adoption, operational improvement, or business impact.

Experience with data engineering, machine learning, or data science workflows,including feature engineering, model training, experimentation, evaluation, or productionML systems.

Experience with on-prem, private cloud, regulated, hybrid, or air-gapped deployments.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and production operations.

Experience working with enterprise security, compliance, audit, access control, andgovernance requirements.

Experience integrating AI or data systems with enterprise applications, internal APIs,data platforms, or customer-specific operational tools.

Experience leading senior technical stakeholders through architecture reviews, securityreviews, implementation planning, and production-readiness decisions.

Ability to identify repeatable product and service opportunities from customer-specificimplementations.

📌 Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Kubernetes (Toronto)
🏢 Tech Talent International
📍 Toronto