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Forward Deploy Engineer - AI Solutions
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$80 to $85 CAD / hour · Contract
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- Pay
- $80 to $85 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
- Closing date
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering, solution engineering, or AI engineering experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Location: Toronto
Hybrid: 2 days a week onsite
Contract: 6 months (high likelihood of extension)
Pay Rate: $80-85 / hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
Insight Global is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that solve complex business challenges. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, AI, architecture, and consulting, requiring a hands-on technologist who can rapidly transform business needs into production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to identify AI use cases and solution opportunities.
- Facilitate discovery workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
- Build proof-of-concepts and production-ready AI applications.
- Develop solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and enterprise AI platforms.
- Create APIs, integrations, and workflow orchestration patterns.
- Partner with architecture teams to ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
- Enable knowledge transfer and promote AI best practices across teams.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of software engineering, solution engineering, or AI engineering experience.
- Strong Python development and API integration experience.
- Experience with cloud-native application development and modern software architecture.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG.
- Strong consulting, stakeholder-facing, and communication skills.
- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate solutions.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, or Microsoft AI ecosystem experience.
- Experience building agentic AI applications and workflows.
- Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval.
- Cloud certifications (Azure preferred).
- Financial services experience, with priority to Wealth Management or Insurance Domain
Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role, and the successful candidate will be hired into an existing open position.
*We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.
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Responsibilities
Partner with business and technical stakeholders to identify AI opportunities, gather requirements, and build proof-of-concept and production-ready AI applications. Develop integrations and AI workflows while collaborating with architecture teams on security and governance, and support knowledge transfer and adoption of AI best practices.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of software, solution, or AI engineering experience, strong Python and API integration skills, and hands-on experience with generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG. Candidates should also have cloud-native development and Agile experience, strong stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to rapidly prototype and iterate.
Skills
- Python
- API Integration
- Cloud-Native Development
- Software Architecture
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Agentic AI
- Proof-of-Concept Development
- Workflow Orchestration
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Requirements Gathering
- Agile
- Azure AI
- Vector Databases
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Consulting
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Python
- APIs
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Software Architecture
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Agentic Workflows
- Enterprise AI Platforms
- Azure AI
- Azure OpenAI
- Copilot Studio
- Vector Databases
- Semantic Search
- Knowledge Retrieval
- Workflow Orchestration
- Proofs Of Concept
- Security
- Governance
- Agile
- Financial Services
- Wealth Management
- Insurance
- Cloud Certifications