Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Toronto, Canada; Remote - International. The Toronto-based position is hybrid.

Base wage: $167,500.00–$235,000.00 CAD per year for the Toronto office; ranges may differ by location.

Company

hirify.global provides payroll, benefits, HR, compliance, Employer of Record, and international contractor solutions for U.S. small businesses and their teams in 40+ countries.

What you will do

• Work with business leaders, operators, and frontline teams to identify workflows where AI agents can create the greatest impact.
• Map and redesign EOR workflows, including data flows, agent context, human-in-the-loop decisions, and handoff points.
• Connect business systems and ship workflow integrations alongside the AI capabilities team.
• Deploy agents to production, define workflow evaluations, and monitor quality, cost, latency, and outcomes.
• Own operational KPIs including volume handled, time saved, quality, cost per task, escalation rate, and business outcomes.
• Partner with the AI capabilities team, Operations, Customer Success, and business leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years combining business operations or process design with hands-on technical execution in areas such as solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, startup founding teams, strategy and operations, or internal tools and automation.
• Ability to map business workflows end-to-end, identify trapped value, redesign processes, and provide measurable efficiency or revenue impact examples.
• Technical fluency with the terminal, code, APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience building a non-trivial solution with LLMs and agents, including prompts, tools, context windows, evaluations, retrieval, and production considerations.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks, MCP servers, vector databases, workflow orchestration, and evaluation tooling.
• Ability to track outcomes, manage KPIs, maintain an operating cadence, and communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong independent judgment, ownership, resourcefulness, product thinking, and ability to work in an autonomous, fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or deployed AI experience at a frontier lab, AI infrastructure company, SaaS company, or applied AI team.
• Founder or early-stage employee experience.
• Experience in EOR, payroll, HR technology, fintech, or B2B SaaS for SMBs.
• Experience building internal agents, automations, or knowledge bases used by real teams.
• International experience or background.

Culture & Benefits

• Welcoming, casual, supportive, and entrepreneurial work environment.
• Benefits, wellness programs, and company retreats.
• Opportunities to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
• Commitment to diversity, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations.
• Hybrid work for the Toronto office and remote international location options.