AI Forward-Deployed Engineer for Rapid Prototyping

EY; Toronto; On-site; CAD 91,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical coverage

Pension plan

Vacation policy

Paid holidays and personal days

Total Rewards program

Job summary

EY Toronto’s Rapid Innovation Lab seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to rapidly prototype, validate and deploy AI-powered solutions that transform how tax and business teams operate. You will embed with professionals to identify opportunities, build agent-based workflows and integrate AI into business processes using cutting-edge tools.

You’ll coach others and push scalable, secure AI-enabled outcomes. Ideal candidates demonstrate fluency with AI-assisted development tools, experience delivering

Qualifications

• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools as a primary way of working.
• Experience building or operationalizing AI agents, agentic workflows, copilots, or Generative AI solutions in business environments.
• A portfolio of things you have built and shipped quickly, such as side projects or workplace tools, with real users or measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and iterate on AI-powered solutions, intelligent agents and workflow automations using AI tools to move from idea to working demo in days.
• Embed with tax and business teams to understand challenges and identify high-value processes worth solving.
• Develop integrations between AI solutions, enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, and business systems, including MCP servers.
• Hand off validated solutions to engineering and platform teams for deployment with clear documentation and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot and refine solutions during pilots based on user feedback and usage data.
• Define success metrics for each build and track results to decide scale or iteration.
• Apply Responsible AI standards to every build, including human review of AI-generated code and outputs.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and business teams to improve solution effectiveness, usability and adoption.
• Coach tax professionals to build and iterate on their own solutions with AI tools.
• Stay current on AI technologies, coding tools, agent frameworks and automation platforms.

Skills

AI tools

AI agents

Python

SQL

API integration

Cloud platforms

Debugging

Communication

Coaching

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

EY Toronto’s Rapid Innovation Lab seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to rapidly prototype, validate and deploy AI-powered solutions that transform how tax and business teams operate. You will embed with professionals to identify opportunities, build agent-based workflows and integrate AI into business processes using cutting-edge tools.

You’ll coach others and push scalable, secure AI-enabled outcomes. Ideal candidates demonstrate fluency with AI-assisted development tools, experience delivering