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Forward Deployed Engineer
@ Sperton Global AS
Canada
Overview
Sperton Global AS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Toronto to embed with operating teams, identify high-leverage workflows and build production AI and software systems end-to-end. The role requires 3 to 6 years of software engineering experience, regular in-person work and travel to operating companies.
Responsibilities:
- Embed with operating teams to understand real business problems
- Identify workflows where AI and software create the most leverage
- Build and deploy production agentic systems end-to-end
- Design evals, autonomy controls and human-in-the-loop workflows
- Iterate with users after launch based on production outcomes
Requirements summary:
- 3 to 6 years of software engineering experience
- Experience with Python and/or TypeScript and React
- Strong SQL and data fundamentals
- Experience shipping LLM or agentic systems to production
- Strong product judgment and stakeholder communication
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Sperton Global AS
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Global Recruitment, Global Mobility, People Management and Global Workworce Hub services
Full company description
SPERTON is a full-range provider of Global Recruitment, People Management, Global Mobility and Business support services within focused industry sectors. Our head office is located in Norway. We have over 20 years’ of experience supporting clients within the Human Resources area. We can support you globally through our own companies and partners in more than 140 countries. Sperton had been specializing in the supply of the very best freelance and permanent white-collar professionals working with projects. We provide consultant and recruitment services to companies of all types and sizes, including consultancies, contractors, sub-contractors, developers and end clients operating across a wide range of projects and environments. Now our services also include People Management, Global Mobility and Business Support Services. Legal entity set-up, payroll services, HR administration, compliance, and insurance provision, cultural awareness training, and mobility support – everything needed to work compliantly with local legislation and regulations in different countries. With over 20 years of global experience within project execution, we understand your challenges and know how to support you from the start to the end of the project.
- LinkedIn followers
- 65,830
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 94
- Reported office locations
- Nedre Strandgate, 11, Drammen, Buskerud 3015, NO
- Vasylkivska vulytsia, 14, Kyiv, Kyiv 03040, UA
- No 72A, Jalan Prof Diraja Ungku Aziz, 100-5.01, Block J, Jaya One, Petaling Jaya, Selangor 46200, MY
- 56 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Da Kao Ward, District 1, Room 9.5, 9th Floor, Serepok Tower, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, VN
- Bahria Town Tower, Tariq Road, Office Suite # 05, Floor # 12, Karachi, PK
- Y-3083, Akshar Business Park, Plot No. 3, Sector 25, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400703, IN
- Friedrichsstraße 28, c/o Weit.Vorn, Kassel, 34117, DE
- Shelton Street Greater London, 71-75, London, WC2H 9JQ, GB
- Noble House, 9th Floor unit 2B., Jl. Dr. Anak Agung Gde Agung, Kav E.4.2 no. 2., Jakarta, 12950, ID
- Casa Antiguo Domingo, Plaza Santa Ana, Casco Viejo, Panama City, PA
- Tampa, Florida, US
- Gothenburg, SE
- Business categories
- Human Resources
- Legal
- Business Development
- Consulting
- Recruiting
- Professional Services
- Business Process Automation (BPA)
- Other recorded names
- Sperton Global AS
- SPERTON - Where Great People Meet
- Specialties
- Recruitment
- interim management
- Executive Search
- Project managers
- Project directors
- EPC
- EPCI
- Manning
- commission managers
- Site managers
- QA managers
- QC
- QS
- HES managers
- Directors
- headhunter
- oil & gas
- renewables
- wind power
- offshore
- construction
- and Engineering
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
SPERTON is a full-range provider of Global Recruitment, People Management, Global Mobility and Business support services within focused industry sectors. Our head office is located in Norway. We have over 20 years’ of experience supporting clients within the Human Resources area. We can support you globally through our own companies and partners in more than 140 countries. Sperton had been specializing in the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | Drammen, Buskerud |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | Recruitmentinterim managementExecutive SearchProject managersProject directorsEPCEPCIManningcommission managersSite managers |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
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The Role
A heavily funded software company is building a Forward Deployed Engineering team to deploy production AI directly into the businesses it operates.
This is not traditional solutions engineering.
You’ll work directly with GMs and operators, understand how their businesses run, identify the highest-leverage workflows to automate, and then build the actual software end-to-end.
That means owning everything from discovery through production:
agents and LLM workflows
prompts, evals and guardrails
integrations and APIs
backend systems
React-based product surfaces
SQL and data workflows
deployment, monitoring and iteration
You’re not building demos or POCs that get handed off.
You’re shipping real systems into live operations and owning whether they actually improve the business.
What You’ll Do
Embed with operating teams to understand messy, real-world business problems
Identify the workflows where AI/software can create the most leverage
Turn ambiguous operational problems into scoped technical solutions
Build and deploy production-grade agentic systems end-to-end
Work across Python/TypeScript, React and SQL
Design evals, autonomy controls and human-in-the-loop workflows
Integrate with existing systems and operational data
Iterate with users after launch based on real production outcomes
Work directly with senior operators and business leaders
Turn successful deployments into reusable patterns that can scale across multiple businesses
What They’re Looking For
Ideally, you have 3–6 years of software engineering experience, with the strongest profiles typically in the 4–6 year range.
You should have:
Strong full-stack engineering ability
Experience with Python and/or TypeScript
React experience
Strong SQL/data fundamentals
Experience shipping LLM or agentic systems into production
Experience with evals, guardrails, tool use or autonomy controls
Strong product judgment
Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders
Ability to take an ambiguous problem and own the solution from start to finish
Strong Backgrounds
Especially relevant backgrounds include:
Forward Deployed Engineering
Product Engineering
Founding Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Applied AI Engineering
Early-stage or high-growth startups
Engineers who have worked at both a recognizable tech company and a startup
Customer-facing engineers who have built and operated production software
Not a Fit If
This role is probably not the right fit if your experience is primarily:
pre-sales or demo-focused solutions engineering
internal prototypes without production ownership
frontend-only or backend-only engineering
research-focused AI without product delivery
data annotation / AI training
highly specialized Big Tech engineering with limited end-to-end ownership
Working Style
This is a high-autonomy environment.
You’ll be expected to operate like an engineer, product manager and technical operator at the same time — understanding the business problem, deciding what should be built, shipping it, and staying accountable for the outcome.
The role is based in Toronto and requires regular in-person work, along with travel to operating companies when needed.
This is best suited to engineers who want broader ownership than a traditional SWE role and want to build AI systems against real operational problems rather than isolated technical features.
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