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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Saris AI

Saris AI

Other Engineering
Canada
Posted on Nov 28, 2025

Location

Canada

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

EngineeringFDE

The role

We're a Montreal & San Francisco based applied AI startup that's building the future of work in the banking industry. We are tackling a $100 billion/yr problem, doubling every quarter and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with multi-turn AI agentic systems.

Our goal is to tackle the type of automation problems that require long-context reasoning, tool orchestration across legacy systems, and strict compliance loops: the ones without known answers.

We’ve shipped real agents that handle real customer workflows in production. With a growing customer base and live deployments, we’re scaling up fast and looking for deeply technical builders who want to have outsized impact early.

We’re currently building out our FDE team with its founding members. The Forward Deployed Engineer will be instrumental in driving implementation strategies across multiple clients while remaining hands-on on the code.

Your mission is to

  • Build custom AI features, APIs, or integrations as needed to bridge gaps between the product and client systems.

  • Work directly with clients to understand their business needs and technical requirements.

  • Serve as a technical advisor or consultant throughout the deployment lifecycle.’

  • Own the end-to-end development of client-specific solutions, including backend, frontend, infrastructure, and deployment tasks.

  • Quickly build proof-of-concepts or MVPs to test hypotheses with clients.

  • Document client-specific implementations and best practices.

Who You Are

  • Demonstrated experience in software implementation in a solutions engineer and/or solutions architect roles

  • Expertise building relationships directly with customers, preferably with SaaS companies.

  • Full-stack development background with our web stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, AWS

  • Have a knack at owning high-impact customer integrations to drive AI process automation.

Why Join Saris AI?

  • 🏦 Join us in building the future of work for the trillion-dollar banking industry using cutting edge AI technology.

  • ⚡Tackle ambiguous technical challenges with no clear answers.

  • 💲Competitive compensation with premium benefits and equity package.

  • 🤝Work with a stellar team of engineers, builders, and leaders; including repeat YC founders with a successful exit (Ready Education).

  • 📈We already have production agents live with revenue-generating customers

  • 🐦 🔥Our team is backed by Tier 1 Silicone Valley VCs