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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in Canada
Senior level
Customer-facing senior engineer who performs technical discovery, rapidly prototypes AI proofs-of-concept, embeds with client teams to deploy production-grade systems, handles complex integrations across cloud environments, documents hand-offs, and establishes scalable AI workflows and platform patterns.
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3Pillar is an AI transformation partner on a mission to help enterprises build the AI-native products and intelligent agents that will define the next era of business. With teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, we work with the most ambitious companies in financial services, healthcare, media, and technology — helping them move faster, modernize boldly, and compete on their own terms. Our HelixAI platform and Helix Pods delivery model put our engineers at the center of real agentic transformation — doing work that is open, portable, and built to last. We are building the future of enterprise AI. 
 

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

It is a highly technical, customer-facing engineering role that sits at the intersection of complex software development and strategic client architecture. FDEs work directly with prospective and existing enterprise clients to understand their architectural challenges, rapidly build high-impact proofs-of-concept (PoCs), and embed within client engineering environments to deploy production-grade code.

This role balances technical execution with strategic consulting, shifting from early-stage architecture discovery to hands-on software delivery and integration.

Key Responsibilities

  • Technical Discovery & Rapid Prototyping: Partner with sales and solutions teams during early-stage discovery to analyze a client's existing technical stack, data pipelines, and infrastructure. Rapidly construct working prototypes, mock integrations, and core code patterns to demonstrate technical feasibility and value.

  • Hands-on Client Deployment: Embed directly with client engineering teams to transition a proposed architecture into a live production environment. Write robust, clean, and maintainable code to build out core platforms, data pipelines, or automated frameworks.

  • Integration & Systems Engineering: Tackle complex systems integration challenges, working with diverse environments, cloud providers, and emerging automated frameworks to bridge gaps between disparate client architectures.

  • Technical Onboarding & Hand-off: Deliver production-ready codebases with exceptional documentation and architectural guardrails. Partner with internal long-term product delivery teams to ensure a seamless technical hand-off, mentoring core engineers on the specific patterns and environments established during the deployment phase.

  • AI Workflows.

Core Qualifications

  • Senior/Staff-Level Engineering Background: Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, systems architecture, or data engineering, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade systems.

  • Polyglot & Systems Fluency: Mastery of modern backend environments (such as Python), environment configuration management, and complex API/system integration patterns.

  • Cloud Architecture: Deep engineering competence with at least one major cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

  • AI Workflows.
  • Consultative Problem Solving: Strong communication skills with the ability to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with a client’s engineering leadership, understand ambiguous requirements, and quickly translate them into an execution plan.

  • Execution Speed: Ability to land in an unfamiliar codebase or architecture and confidently begin committing clean code and resolving technical hurdles on day one.

Benefits

  • Medical & dental insurance - with employee contributions

  • LTD, Life & AD&D insurance - employee paid 

  • Paid time off

  • 10 Paid Holidays

  • RRSP with Employer Matching

  • Flexible work policy

What is it like working for 3Pillar Global?

    At 3Pillar Global, we are the power behind the brands you know. We are hiring new team members to assist us in continuing our growth trajectory as a fast growing global team of thousands of professionals. New Leaders will live our shared values of Intrinsic Dignity, Open Collaboration, Outsized Impact, and Continuous Improvement everyday to harness The Power of Team and deliver exceptional products and services for our clients.

    We support the comprehensive wellbeing of our team members, through:

  • Career growth and development

  • Physical and mental wellbeing: As a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing. Whether it is taking advantage of fitness offerings, mental health plans (country-dependent), or simply leveraging unlimited PTO to take some needed time off, we want all of our team members operating at their best.

  • Living our value for Intrinsic Dignity as an equal opportunity employer.

  • Comprehensive US/Regional benefits packages including company-funded healthcare options, parental leave, and company-paid disability/life insurance.

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