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title: 'Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Syndesus'
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# Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Syndesus

- **Company:** Syndesus
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/syndesus/am9icG9zdDpBuDiCNmnXHHwT5U9WnB_9

## Job description

Senior AI Solutions Engineer — Enterprise GCP Toronto, Ontario | Mostly Remote (Occasional In-Person) | Full-Time Permanent

## About the Company

Our client is a Google Cloud partner operating at the intersection of enterprise AI and intelligent automation. They work directly with mid-to-large enterprises to design and deploy production-grade generative AI and agentic systems — helping organizations move beyond consumer-grade AI experimentation and into secure, governed, enterprise-ready solutions built on Google Cloud. This is a nimble, high-agency environment. The team is small, the clients are real, and the problems are genuinely unsolved. You won't be maintaining someone else's roadmap — you'll be helping build one.

## The Role

This is a founding technical role within the company's North American AI practice. You'll be the primary architect and solutions engineer driving customer engagements from initial conversation through to solution design and handoff to the delivery team. Think less "hands-down-in-the-IDE" and more forward-deployed technical expert — someone who can sit across from a CIO, understand their business problem, and translate it into a credible, production-ready AI solution on GCP. You'll work closely with the founding leadership team and will have meaningful input into how the practice is built, which frameworks get adopted, and what the company's AI IP evolves into.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Leading technical discovery and solution design for enterprise AI engagements, primarily on Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise)
- Architecting agentic AI systems that integrate with enterprise data sources — ERP systems, legacy platforms, modern data infrastructure — with full consideration for security, governance, data quality, and authorization frameworks
- Translating complex business logic into scalable, production-grade AI solutions and communicating those designs clearly to both technical and business stakeholders
- Collaborating with and directing offshore delivery teams to bring architectures to life
- Contributing to and evolving the company's existing AI IP and accelerators
- Staying sharp on the rapidly shifting agentic AI landscape — frameworks, tooling, and emerging best practices — and bringing that knowledge to bear for clients who are looking to you for guidance

## What You Bring

- Deep, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform — Vertex AI, Model Garden, Gemini — and a strong understanding of what enterprise GCP deployment actually looks like in practice
- Proven experience building agentic AI systems — multi-step reasoning, tool use, state management, workflow orchestration — not just LLM prompting
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — you understand that AI is maybe 20% of the solution; the rest is robust, scalable, maintainable engineering
- Fluency across the enterprise AI considerations that actually matter in production: data governance, security, authentication/authorization, auditability, privacy
- Experience working with or integrating enterprise data sources — ERP systems, legacy platforms, databases — and understanding how to make that data AI-ready
- Excellent communication skills — you can hold a room with a CIO as comfortably as you can whiteboard an architecture with an engineering team
- Comfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and operating without a large supporting cast

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) — cloud literacy translates
- Exposure to additional agentic frameworks (LangGraph, ADK, CrewAI) or other AI ecosystems (Anthropic, OpenAI)
- Background in consulting, systems integration, or pre-sales solutions engineering

The Setup

- Mostly remote with a downtown Toronto office available; occasional in-person team meetups (roughly monthly)
- Compensation details to be confirmed — expect a package commensurate with the seniority and scope of this role
- Full-time permanent position

Who Thrives Here You've got enterprise pedigree — you've seen how large organizations actually work, what governance looks like at scale, and why "just build a chatbot" isn't a real answer. But you're not waiting for six approvals to make a decision. You move fast, you think broadly, and you're genuinely excited about being first in the door on problems that most companies are still figuring out how to frame.

## About Syndesus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Syndesus builds elite engineering and AI teams in Canada for US-based VC-backed startups, offering a fully-managed Employer of Record (EOR) solution to eliminate cross-border hiring friction.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Marc Pavlopoulos

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Talent-as-a-Service / Professional Employer Organization (PEO) / Technical Recruiting
- **Target customers**: US-based VC-backed technology startups and enterprises needing senior AI, ML, and software engineering talent from Canada
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate innovation by replacing the slow, transactional hiring model with a seamless, strategic solution that delivers seniority and speed.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Talent Sourcing]**: Access to a curated pool of pre-vetted, enterprise-proven senior engineers (AI, ML, data science, full-stack) from Canada. Candidates have track records at major tech companies.
- **[Employer of Record (EOR)]**: Syndesus acts as the legal employer for Canadian talent hired by US companies, handling all payroll, benefits, compliance, and provincial labor law requirements.
- **[Canada Co-pilot]**: An outsourced HR team service for US companies that need deeper support managing the administrative and compliance details of their Canadian workforce.
- **[Relocation & Immigration Support]**: Assistance for foreign-born tech workers (and their US employers) who need options for working remotely in Canada due to visa or immigration issues, including H1-B visa alternatives and Canadian immigration pathways.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private, bootstrapped company)
- **Key Metric**: 63 total employees (as of latest data); 16,000+ LinkedIn followers; 25 open positions listed on careers page
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (appears to be self-funded)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth with 25 active job openings across Canada and the US (New York, San Francisco, Austin, Frisco, Dallas, San Jose, Quebec, Toronto) in both hybrid and remote roles; expanding into major US tech hubs; strong employer brand on LinkedIn.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed**: Ability to move from initial consultation to a compliant new hire in as little as three weeks by leveraging a pre-vetted talent pool.
- **Curated Talent Focus**: Specializes exclusively in senior, production-ready AI and engineering talent with enterprise experience, not general staffing.
- **Full-Stack Friction Removal**: Combines elite talent sourcing with a fully-managed EOR solution, eliminating the legal, payroll, and compliance risks of cross-border hiring in a single partnership.
- **Deep Canadian Network**: Canada has one of the deepest AI talent pools in the world, and Syndesus has built a specific pipeline to access it for US companies.

## Strategic Focus
- Aggressively scaling its own team across North America to meet demand, with a heavy emphasis on senior engineering roles (AI, ML, data, backend, full-stack) and product management.
- Deepening its specialization in AI talent as the primary growth driver for its clients.
- Expanding its physical footprint into key US tech markets (New York, San Francisco, Austin) while maintaining a strong Canadian HQ presence.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Work**: Employees help solve the single biggest blocker to innovation for top US tech companies: accessing elite AI and engineering talent.
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a rapid growth phase with 25 open roles, offering significant career advancement opportunities for early joiners.
- **Flexible Work Environment**: Offers a mix of remote (Canada, US West Coast), hybrid (Toronto, Frisco, Quebec, New York), and in-office (New York, San Francisco) roles, catering to different working preferences.
- **Founder-Led & Experienced**: Led by Marc Pavlopoulos, a 20+ year veteran of scaling VC-backed tech companies in Silicon Valley, providing strong leadership and operational insight.
- **Culture**: Positioned as a strategic partner, not a transactional recruiter, with a focus on speed, quality, and solving hard problems for clients.

## Sources
1. [syndesus.com/about-us](https://syndesus.com/about-us/)
2. [syndesus.com/home](https://syndesus.com/home/)
3. [LinkedIn - Syndesus, Inc.](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/syndesus)
4. [Built In - Syndesus Careers](https://builtin.com/company/syndesus)
5. [Jobs.gem.com - Syndesus Careers](https://jobs.gem.com/syndesus)

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