Sardine

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Sardine
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3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$175k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly with clients to gather requirements and translate operational challenges into technical architectures and AI-driven solutions.
  • Train and deploy custom AI agents for fraud prevention and complex financial-crime workflows.
  • Use prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks to optimize agent accuracy, safety, and reliability.
  • Establish AI risk metrics, supporting datasets, and evaluation pipelines to measure deployed-agent performance and causal impact.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production and optimize operational performance.
  • Promote AI-first approaches across internal teams and client engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation, pipeline building, and model integration.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Ability to work autonomously, think creatively and critically, and deliver measurable business value.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement for employees in the United States or Canada, with work-from-anywhere flexibility.
  • Flexible paid time off and a year-end break.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents in the US and Canada.
  • 4% 401(k) or RRSP matching in the US and Canada.
  • MacBook Pro delivered to the employee.
  • One-time home-office setup stipend.
  • Monthly meal and social meetup stipends.
  • Annual health and wellness and learning stipends.
  • Cash and equity compensation, including early exercise for all options.

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Sardine

About Sardine

201-500 employees

Sardine builds an integrated fraud and anti–money-laundering platform for banks, fintechs, and online businesses, combining device fingerprinting, behavioral biometrics, session telemetry, and real-time transaction monitoring, with APIs and case management to block attacks and automate reviews. Privately held and founded in 2020, it is headquartered in San Francisco. Publicly named customers include FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com.

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