Justworks

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify and document high-leverage workflows where AI agents can automate manual work and improve customer and team outcomes.
  • Redesign workflows around agent capabilities, including human-in-the-loop decisions, data flows, context requirements, and handoffs.
  • Connect workflows across business systems and ship solutions alongside the AI capabilities team.
  • Deploy agents to production, define and rerun evaluations, and monitor quality, cost, latency, and outcomes.
  • Own KPIs such as volume handled, time saved, quality, cost per task, escalation rate, and business outcomes.
  • Partner with Operations, Customer Success, business leaders, and frontline teams to drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience 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 value opportunities, redesign processes, and demonstrate measurable efficiency or revenue impact.
  • Technical fluency with terminals, code, APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience building non-trivial applications with LLMs and agents, including prompts, tools, context windows, evaluations, and retrieval.
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks, MCP servers, vector databases, workflow orchestration, and evaluation tooling.
  • Ability to track KPIs, operate autonomously, communicate with non-technical stakeholders, and exercise strong business judgment.
  • Preferred experience in forward-deployed or solutions engineering, deployed AI, founding or early-stage companies, internal agents and automations, EOR, payroll, HR technology, fintech, B2B SaaS, or international business.

Benefits

  • Welcoming and casual work environment with great benefits, wellness program offerings, and company retreats.
  • Hybrid role based in the Toronto office.
  • Equal opportunity employer offering reasonable accommodations and a commitment to an inclusive workplace.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSC#CircleCIDatadogDockerElasticsearchGitGoJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMySQLPythonRedisRuby on RailsTerraform

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Justworks

1,001-5,000 employees

Justworks provides a PEO and SaaS platform for small and midsize businesses to run payroll, offer benefits, and manage HR and compliance. Products include access to health insurance and 401(k), payroll and contractor payments, onboarding tools, and reporting, sold via subscriptions and PEO service fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, the company is privately held and serves employers across the United States.

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