Tanto.ai

Careers

Ship the work most consultants only recommend.

Tanto embeds forward-deployed engineers and operators inside real companies — not sandboxes. We're hiring across Toronto and Halifax for people who'd rather write production code than write a slide about it.

What We Look For

Comfortable with ambiguity, allergic to slideware

Every hire changes what we're capable of. Here's what we look for in the people who join us.

Comfortable in Ambiguity

Early-stage AI deployments rarely come with a spec. You're comfortable defining the problem as you solve it.

Bias to Ship

A working prototype beats a polished proposal. You'd rather show than tell.

Fluent With Stakeholders

You can sit in a room with a deal team or a plant manager and hold your own in either conversation.

Own the Outcome

You stick around past the demo, and measure yourself by what changed, not what you delivered.

Open Roles

Currently hiring in Toronto and Halifax

We hire deliberately, project by project, matched to the engagements in front of us rather than a fixed headcount plan.

About Tanto.ai

Tanto is a forward-deployed AI consulting firm, led by operators rather than career consultants. We embed engineers and strategists directly inside client teams — writing production code against real systems and data — until the work runs on its own. Our roots are in PE, VC, and portfolio companies, and we're growing our team across Canada to take on more of that work.

Forward-Deployed Engineer

Toronto, ON

Embedded inside client teams, writing production code against real systems and real data.

About the role

You'll embed directly inside client teams — writing production code against real systems and real data, from discovery through operational handover.

What you'll do
  • Sit inside client workflows to understand where the friction actually is
  • Build and ship working software against production data and systems
  • Stay accountable for what happens after launch, not just the handoff
What we're looking for
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Experience working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • A bias toward production-ready code over polished proposals

Forward-Deployed Engineer

Halifax, NS

Embedded inside client teams, writing production code against real systems and real data.

About the role

You'll embed directly inside client teams — writing production code against real systems and real data, from discovery through operational handover.

What you'll do
  • Sit inside client workflows to understand where the friction actually is
  • Build and ship working software against production data and systems
  • Stay accountable for what happens after launch, not just the handoff
What we're looking for
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Experience working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • A bias toward production-ready code over polished proposals

AI Strategy Consultant

Toronto, ON

Assessing workflows, data, and teams to prioritize the AI initiatives that actually move the numbers.

About the role

You'll assess client workflows, data, and teams to prioritize the AI initiatives that actually move the numbers — then hand off a plan our engineers can build against.

What you'll do
  • Run discovery with client stakeholders to map high-value opportunities
  • Prioritize initiatives by expected impact and feasibility
  • Partner with our forward-deployed engineers to translate strategy into a working plan
What we're looking for
  • Experience advising operating businesses or portfolio companies on strategy or transformation
  • Comfort translating ambiguous business problems into a concrete roadmap
  • Direct, plain-spoken communication style

Data & ML Engineer

Halifax, NS

Building the pipelines and infrastructure that let forward-deployed work survive past the pilot.

About the role

You'll build the pipelines and infrastructure that let forward-deployed work survive past the pilot — data access, monitoring, and the unglamorous plumbing that makes a system safe to run in production.

What you'll do
  • Design and build data pipelines against real production systems
  • Add monitoring, error handling, and audit trails to systems headed to production
  • Partner with forward-deployed engineers to harden prototypes into durable systems
What we're looking for
  • Strong background in data engineering or ML infrastructure
  • Experience taking a prototype to something that runs reliably in production
  • Comfort working directly inside a client's stack, not around it

Forward-Deployed Engineer (Contract)

Remote (Contract)

Short-term, high-intensity engagements for elite engineers who can drop into a client's stack and ship immediately.

About the role

We're looking for the absolute top talent to join on a contract basis — engineers who can embed with a client team, get productive fast, and help them actually deploy AI into production without months of ramp-up.

What you'll do
  • Parachute into active client engagements and get productive within days, not weeks
  • Write production code against real systems and real data alongside our core team
  • Hand off cleanly once the engagement scope is complete
What we're looking for
  • A track record of shipping production software fast, with minimal oversight
  • Comfort working under contract, engagement by engagement, rather than a single long-term role
  • The same production-first, outcome-accountable mindset as our full-time FDEs

AI Security & Governance FDE

Toronto, ON

Embedded inside client teams to make sure what we ship is safe, compliant, and auditable — not just functional.

About the role

You'll work alongside our forward-deployed engineers to build the security, access control, and governance layer around production AI systems — especially for clients in regulated or high-stakes environments like PE, VC, and financial services.

What you'll do
  • Design access controls, audit trails, and data handling practices for AI systems running in production
  • Assess AI deployments for security and compliance risk before and after launch
  • Partner with client security, legal, and compliance teams to get sign-off without slowing delivery
What we're looking for
  • Experience in AI/ML security, governance, or a related security engineering background
  • Familiarity with regulated environments (financial services, PE, VC, or similar)
  • Comfort operating inside a fast-moving forward-deployed team, not a siloed compliance function

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