Staff Engineer

Tali AI; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid work options

Health and wellness coverage

Competitive PTO and holidays

Knowledge Dollars for learning

Quarterly socials and company outings

Job summary

Tali AI is a fast-growing Canadian startup redefining clinical workflows with AI. We seek a Staff Engineer to own ambiguous, high-impact technical problems and shape initiatives from inception to delivery.

You will drive architectural decisions, de-risk critical paths, and set standards that empower a growing team while aligning with clinician and patient outcomes. You will operate across real-time AI workflows, reliability engineering, AI infrastructure, and security, collaborating with a small

Qualifications

• Shipped complex systems from ambiguous starting points.
• Made high-stakes architectural decisions under uncertainty.
• Articulated trade-offs clearly for team learning.
• Defined scope and prioritization without always relying on a PM.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-stakes projects from unclear concepts to completion.
• De-risk initiatives and surface irreversible decisions.
• Collaborate across real-time AI workflows, reliability, infra, GTM, security.
• Drive architectural quality and code review standards across the team.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI proficiency

Product judgment

Force multiplier

Job description

Tali AI is one of the fastest growing startups in Canada with the mission to use AI and make healthcare more accessible. We are building the AI platform for clinical workflows: automating data collection, processing, and sharing in healthcare, so clinicians can focus on actual care. Our platform is used by thousands of clinicians in Canada and the US, operating across dozens of specialties and deeply integrated with the fragmented landscape of North American health records systems. The technical north star is an operating system for clinical workflows: a platform that healthcare teams configure to automate their data work.

The hard problems are genuinely hard:

• Real-time audio pipelines where latency is felt and accuracy has clinical stakes
• Integrations with a fragmented ecosystem of clinical software: health records, billing, scheduling, referral management, and more
• AI workflows and agents that have to operate reliably in a domain where errors have consequences
• A privacy and compliance posture that has to be right by design

We’re moving fast in a market that rewards speed, and operating in a domain where breaking clinician trust is not recoverable.

The role

We’re hiring a Staff Engineer who reports to the VP Engineering and works on our highest-stakes, most ambiguous technical problems. This is an execution role. You lead through your output, your judgment, and the quality of the standards you set.

You’ll work on projects that are strategically critical and don’t yet have a clear shape. You give them shape. You de-risk them, make the irreversible decisions visible, and drive them to completion. Our engineering spans:

• Real-time AI workflows
• Reliability engineering
• AI infrastructure and platform engineering
• GTM engineering
• Security, privacy, and compliance

And you operate across whichever of these a given problem touches. You’ll work with a small and growing team that ships daily, reasons clearly, and cares about the clinicians and patients on the other side of every decision.

AI is central to how you work, not as a productivity tool but as a lever for judgment and scope. You use it to take on problems that would otherwise require a team, and you build the architectural foundations (specs, conventions, standards) that let others on the team do the same. When you leave a problem, it’s in better shape technically and the team is better equipped to handle the next one.

What we’re looking for

• Proven Technical Leadership: You’ve shipped complex systems from ambiguous starting points. You’ve made high-stakes architectural decisions under uncertainty and can articulate the tradeoffs clearly enough that others learn from them.
• AI Proficiency: You use AI to decompose large problems, maintain coherence across that execution, and apply genuine architectural judgment to what comes out. You know when the output belongs in the codebase and when it doesn’t.
• Product Judgment: You have strong product instincts and use them. On problems that need it, you can define scope, make prioritization calls, and connect technical choices to outcomes without waiting for a PM. You know when “good enough now” beats “perfect later”. You also know when it doesn’t.
• Force Multiplier: You make people around you better through the quality of your decisions, the visibility of your reasoning, and the standards you set in code review and architecture discussions.

What success looks like

• 3 months: You’ve taken ownership of a critical project and are driving it to completion with minimal oversight. Your reasoning on the key decisions is legible to the team.
• 6 months: You’re a go-to person for some of our hardest problems. You’ve identified and fixed two or three recurring org-wide bottlenecks. Engineers who’ve worked with you are making better architectural decisions on their own.
• 1 year: Projects you’ve led are the reference point for how we execute well. You’re shaping technical strategy and the VP Engineering trusts you to run point on anything.

$175,000 - $225,000 a year

The compensation range listed refers to an annual base salary that may vary depending on a candidate’s relevant qualifications, knowledge, competencies and work experience, and other factors including market conditions. Base salary is only one aspect of our total rewards package. Be sure to check out a summary of our benefits below.

More About Tali AI

Perks and Benefits

All full-time employees enjoy:

• Remote and hybrid work options & flexible work hours
• Comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one
• Competitive PTO, including winter shutdown Dec 25 - Jan 1, birthdays and Taliversaries, and ‘extra long’ long weekends
• $2000 annually in “Knowledge Dollars” to learn, grow, and level up
• Quarterly socials & company outings that bring our team together beyond the day-to-day

Our Core Values

• Bold: we embrace ambitious goals, make courageous decisions, and take calculated risks to drive impactful innovation and growth
• Resourceful: we’re self-directed problem solvers; navigating obstacles, learning and acquiring new skills and making sound judgement calls. We consistently deliver on commitments while maintaining a high standard of quality and dependability
• Candid: Being, honest, transparent, and open in all interactions, fostering a culture of trust and authenticity
• Caring: Actively supporting and empathizing with our people - customers, patients, and colleagues to help them thrive and achieve their goals

Why Join Tali

• Impact at Scale: What you do here matters. You’ll influence the Tali experience, fueling a team that’s changing how clinicians work and how patients are cared for.
• Technical Excellence: What you build here sets the bar. You’ll work with cutting-edge technology to help shape a truly world-class product.
• Ownership and Growth: What you take on here truly matters. As an early-stage startup, every team member helps shape our technology, culture, and future. Whether you’re a generalist who thrives on variety or a specialist excited to build systems from the ground up, your contributions will be pivotal to what we become.
• Build with Purpose and Pride: What you contribute here carries real responsibility. You’ll help build and support systems that handle highly sensitive medical data with care and integrity, earning the trust of clinicians and safeguarding the safety of patients every day.
• A Team that Inspires: Collaborate with a talented, driven team that values innovation, humility, and a relentless focus on solving meaningful problems.

Tali Online

• Tali is one of Linkedin’s Top Startups of 2025
• Tali is part of the renowned Digital Supercluster Project
• Check out Tali’s CEO, Mahshid Yassaei on Cherry Health’s Leaders in Healthcare Podcast

We thank all applicants for their interest; only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Tali is committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process for all candidates. Should you require accommodations at any point throughout the hiring process, please contact People & Culture at [e-mail].