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Forward Deployed Solution Engineer - Applied AI FDE

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Montreal, QC, Canada
HybridHybrid work in Montreal; travel up to 30% may be required for customer deployments.
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrated experience leveraging or critically evaluating how to integrate artificial intelligence into work processes, decision-making, and problem-solving.
  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years building and shipping systems in customer-facing or embedded roles.
  • At least 3 years building production machine learning or artificial intelligence systems end to end, from data preparation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Practical experience with retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases including pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, and FAISS, prompt engineering and chaining, structured outputs, function and tool calling, context management, and agentic or multi-step workflows.
  • Ability to define success metrics and build evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic systems, including golden datasets, offline evaluations, LLM-as-judge, A/B testing, and human-in-the-loop feedback.
  • Ability to diagnose hallucinations, quality regression, and model drift in production.
  • Working knowledge of machine learning and deep learning concepts including supervised learning, embeddings, transformers, attention, tokenization, context windows, and quantization.
  • Experience with LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel or equivalent, PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn, the Hugging Face ecosystem, and model APIs and platforms including Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Vertex AI.
  • Proven ability to design and implement artificial-intelligence-native software in production environments.
  • Strength in backend development using Python, Node.js, and Java, frontend development using React and Angular, and APIs using REST and GraphQL.
  • Skill in debugging distributed systems, tuning latency and throughput, implementing monitoring, tracking tokens and costs, tracing and debugging spans, and collecting quality telemetry.
  • Experience with LangSmith, Arize, Weights & Biases, and OpenTelemetry for observability and tracing.
  • Experience deploying on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform with continuous integration and continuous delivery, containers, and infrastructure as code.
  • Familiarity with model versioning, prompt and configuration versioning, automated evaluation gates in continuous integration, and canary, shadow, and feature-flagged deployment patterns.
  • Practical experience implementing guardrails, personally identifiable information handling and redaction, prompt-injection and jailbreak mitigation, output validation, and data governance in customer environments.
  • Ability to contribute to shared software development kits and tools.
  • Ability to prioritize user value, minimum viable product iteration, and long-term scale.
  • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time for on-site customer work.
Responsibilities
  • Partner directly with customers to discover problems and frame high-impact artificial-intelligence use cases.
  • Design and build end-to-end generative artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, including retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, agentic workflows, evaluation, and guardrails, and deploy them to production.
  • Prototype quickly, iterate with real users, and harden pilots into reliable, monitored services.
  • Own the technical relationship and translate between business stakeholders and engineering.
  • Raise the level of machine learning rigor and engineering quality across the team.
  • Identify high-impact artificial-intelligence opportunities by running hands-on workshops and aligning stakeholders.
  • Design systems using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, retrieval logic, and workflow orchestration.
  • Collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers to build, test, and iterate functional solutions quickly.
  • Create repeatable frameworks, reusable templates, and modular components.
  • Influence customer and executive buy-in through clear storytelling and solution framing.
  • Capture feedback from deployments to shape product strategy and prioritize platform needs.
  • Equip internal teams and customers to expand successful implementations through documentation and technical onboarding assets.
  • Deliver a validated, solution-ready artificial-intelligence build within 8 to 12 weeks that addresses a business-critical problem.
  • Create assets, including prompts and orchestration logic, that are leveraged by other teams and codified for scale.
  • Contribute to shaping the Now Platform through structured product feedback and architectural influence.
  • Deliver artificial-intelligence solutions that produce measurable gains in efficiency, automation, adoption, or satisfaction.
  • Develop solutions that become the foundation for scaled production deployment across customer environments.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience integrating artificial intelligence into software-as-a-service platforms such as ServiceNow or Salesforce.
  • Experience with fine-tuning and adaptation techniques including LoRA/PEFT, distillation, and quantization, and knowledge of when they outperform prompting or retrieval.
  • Experience with inference optimization and self-hosted serving using vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or Triton, including GPU cost and performance tuning.
  • Experience with machine-learning data engineering, including pipelines, feature stores, streaming ingestion, and large-scale document processing.
  • Experience delivering artificial-intelligence systems in regulated or data-sensitive environments such as financial services, healthcare, or the public sector.
  • Comfort leading technical workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture reviews with customer stakeholders.

About the company

ServiceNow builds cloud software that helps large organizations manage work across IT, customer service, human resources, and security. Its applications handle tasks such as resolving support tickets, onboarding employees, and responding to customer requests. Businesses configure forms, approval steps, and automation through visual tools on a common platform, connecting existing systems and using AI to assist workers or carry out tasks. The company sells subscriptions to its applications and platform, with professional services helping customers implement and use the software. Founded in 2004, ServiceNow is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2004

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What believers are saying

  • Subscriptions grew: ServiceNow reported $3.877 billion in subscription revenue for the June 2026 quarter, up 24.5% year over year.
  • Hybrid work is established: ServiceNow says most staff have flexible arrangements, requiring two or more office days weekly.
  • Security work expanded: the April 2026 Armis acquisition added protection for industrial equipment, medical devices, and connected hardware.

What critics are saying

  • Subscription margins narrowed: in June 2026, ServiceNow kept 73.5% of subscription revenue after direct costs, versus 80% a year earlier.
  • Remote roles limit relocation: ServiceNow requires staff to remain within their employment state, province, region, or country.
  • Older versions lose support: ServiceNow supports two release families and schedules upgrades for customers who fall behind.

What makes ServiceNow unique

  • Customers get separated systems: ServiceNow assigns each customer its own software instance and database, unlike shared tenant designs.
  • Outages get business context: ServiceNow's configuration database maps servers and applications to the business services depending on them.
  • Customers choose upgrade timing: ServiceNow's separate instances let enterprises schedule releases independently from other customers.

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Benefits

  • Generous family leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Matched Donations
  • Retirement benefits
  • Annual learning stipends
  • Paid volunteer time

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Fortune
Oct 20th, 2026
ServiceNow CFO: Overwork doesn't make a better leader, recovery drives performance

ServiceNow president and chief financial officer Gina Mastantuono says overwork does not make a better leader. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, she said recovery is a prerequisite for high performance, not a distraction from it. She criticised the idea that 14-hour days and four hours of sleep show commitment. "That is such a terrible example for the people around us," she said. Prioritising recovery helped her listen more thoughtfully, stay composed under pressure, and improve her work-life balance. Fellow panellist Alicia Hatch of Deloitte said 94% of female C-suite executives played sports growing up. Deloitte projects global women's sports revenue will reach at least $3 billion in 2026, a 340% rise over four years.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 18th, 2026
ServiceNow's revenue grows 24% to $4B, outpacing Workday's 13% growth and $2.7B quarterly sales

ServiceNow is growing revenue faster than Workday, according to an analysis of the two software companies' last eight quarters. ServiceNow's second-quarter revenue reached $4.0 billion, up 24% year over year. Workday's hit $2.7 billion, up 13%. ServiceNow's AI offerings passed $1 billion in annual contract value (ACV) during the quarter. Customers with more than $5 million in ACV rose 23%. Workday said AI capabilities drove more than 25% of its new ACV in its fiscal second quarter.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 14th, 2026
Over 25% of S&P 500 stocks are down 40%+: four bargain tech picks, from Netflix to Oracle

More than 25% of S&P 500 stocks are down 40% or more from their highs, even with the index near record levels, as of October 8, 2026. The Motley Fool sees that as a chance to hunt for bargains in tech. It names four picks. Netflix trades at about 18.5 times 2027 analyst earnings estimates, and advertising should drive its growth. Oracle has a $664 billion backlog in cloud infrastructure, but carries heavy debt and burns cash. ServiceNow, hit by the 2026 software sell-off, trades at 7.5 times forward sales as it pushes into agentic AI. AppLovin trades at 13 times 2027 earnings estimates. Its revenue rose 53% last quarter to $1.9 billion.

Fortune
Oct 14th, 2026
CFOs at Chevron, ServiceNow and Nasdaq say AI must earn capital; ServiceNow targets $500M savings

Chevron, ServiceNow and Nasdaq finance chiefs say AI projects must prove their worth before getting funded. They spoke on a panel at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara on Tuesday. Chevron's chief financial officer, Eimear Bonner, said AI "has got to compete for capital" and cannot be "a science experiment." She wants a clear path to value and results that reach the bottom line. ServiceNow's Gina Mastantuno said CFOs must also weigh the cost of falling behind rivals. The company expects $500 million in savings this year, largely from using its own products. Nasdaq's Sarah Youngwood sorts investments by time horizon and tracks AI metrics such as coding speed, client retention and token costs.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 9th, 2026
ServiceNow vs. Palantir: can faster AI growth justify paying 139× vs. 31× cash flow?

Palantir Technologies trades at 139 times trailing free cash flow compared to ServiceNow's 31 times, but investors are paying the premium for faster AI-driven growth. Palantir's June-quarter revenue surged 93% to $1.94 billion, with GAAP operating income reaching $912 million, about 47% of revenue. ServiceNow's second-quarter subscription revenue rose 24.5% to $3.88 billion. Current remaining performance obligations increased 21% to $13.2 billion. Operating cash flow reached $587 million, with free cash flow at $473 million after property purchases. Institutional ownership data shows ServiceNow's holder count increased to 115 from 108 in Q1, whilst Palantir's fell to 86 from 96. Palantir had 60.18 million shares short on 15 September, approximately 2.8% of float. Both companies offer different enterprise automation approaches, with the valuation gap reflecting Palantir's exceptional growth trajectory.