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title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Canada'
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# Tech & AI jobs in Canada

> Canada's tech talent concentrates in Toronto, with strong secondary hubs in Vancouver, Montreal, and the Waterloo corridor. The scene has a real AI center of gravity now, anchored by Cohere in Toronto, alongside fintech at Wealthsimple and Neo Financial and commerce infrastructure at Lightspeed and Shopify's orbit. Immigration-friendly policy keeps the engineering pool growing.

- **Open roles:** 5241
- **Hiring companies:** 732
- **Region type:** country
- **Timezone:** America/Toronto
- **Population:** 40,770,000
- **Cost of living:** near the US average, though Toronto and Vancouver housing runs well above it.
- **Climate:** Cold continental across most of the country — long, snowy winters and warm summers. Milder on the west coast around Vancouver.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/canada

## Cities in Canada

- [Toronto](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/toronto) — 1590 jobs
- [Montréal](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/montreal) — 658 jobs
- [Vancouver](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/vancouver) — 444 jobs
- [Calgary](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/calgary) — 116 jobs
- [Mississauga](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/mississauga) — 76 jobs
- [Ottawa](https://feeny.ai/location/canada/ottawa) — 62 jobs

## Top companies hiring in Canada

- [Neo Financial](https://feeny.ai/companies/neo-financial) — 120 open roles
- [Clutch Technologies Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/clutch-technologies-inc) — 67 open roles
- [Levio](https://feeny.ai/companies/levio) — 58 open roles
- [MaintainX](https://feeny.ai/companies/maintainx) — 117 open roles
- [AutoTrader.ca](https://feeny.ai/companies/autotrader-ca) — 42 open roles
- [DoorDash Canada](https://feeny.ai/companies/doordash-canada) — 38 open roles
- [Wealthsimple Technologies](https://feeny.ai/companies/wealthsimple-technologies) — 32 open roles
- [Coveo](https://feeny.ai/companies/coveo) — 45 open roles
- [Felix](https://feeny.ai/companies/felix) — 26 open roles
- [Partyhat](https://feeny.ai/companies/partyhat) — 27 open roles
- [Hiive](https://feeny.ai/companies/hiive) — 24 open roles
- [Lightspeed Commerce, Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/lightspeed-commerce-inc) — 79 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where Canada's tech talent studies**

Canada's universities are a major reason the country became an AI center: Toronto produced Geoffrey Hinton and OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever, and Waterloo's famous co-op program feeds startups and big tech alike (BlackBerry's Mike Lazaridis studied there). McGill and Alberta add more of the deep-learning lineage.

- **University of Toronto** (Toronto · 75,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Aidan Gomez
- **University of Waterloo** (Waterloo · 42,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Mike Lazaridis, John Baker, Sam Pasupalak
- **University of British Columbia** (Vancouver · 56,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Ryan Holmes
- **McGill University** (Montreal · 27,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Wilkinson
- **University of Alberta** (Edmonton · 40,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Richard Sutton
- **Queen's University** (Kingston · 24,000 undergrads)
- **Western University** (London · 34,000 undergrads)

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in Canada**

The unicorn roster spans AI and fintech: enterprise language models at Cohere, investing at Wealthsimple, security at 1Password, and legal software at Clio. Dapper Labs put Vancouver on the crypto map with NBA Top Shot, and Hopper carries Montreal's travel-tech flag, a well-rounded bench for a mid-sized market.

- **[Wealthsimple](https://feeny.ai/companies/wealthsimple-technologies)** — $10B · Commission-free investing, saving & banking app
- **Dapper Labs** — $7.6B · Blockchain & NFT platform behind NBA Top Shot
- **[Cohere](https://feeny.ai/companies/cohere)** — $7B · Enterprise large language models & AI platform
- **[1Password](https://feeny.ai/companies/1password)** — $6.8B · Password manager & enterprise security
- **[Hopper](https://feeny.ai/companies/hopper)** — $5B · Travel booking with price prediction & fintech
- **PointClickCare** — $4B · Cloud healthcare software for senior care
- **ApplyBoard** — $3.2B · Platform connecting international students with schools
- **Clio** — $3B · Cloud practice-management software for law firms
- **[StackAdapt](https://feeny.ai/companies/stackadapt)** — $2.5B · Programmatic advertising & media buying
- **[Trulioo](https://feeny.ai/companies/trulioo)** — $1.75B · Global identity verification & fraud prevention
- **[Ada](https://feeny.ai/companies/ada)** — $1.2B · AI-powered customer service automation
- **[Neo Financial](https://feeny.ai/companies/neo-financial)** — $1B · Challenger bank with cards, savings & rewards

## Events

**What's happening in Canada**

- [Toronto Café Walk x Wellness [Old Town Edition] 🌳](https://luma.com/g3hly2u3) — 2026-08-07 · Toronto
- [Streets as Studio: Where Art, Design, and Community Meet (The Talk)](https://luma.com/dwc2026-ivz2) — 2026-08-07 · Calgary
- [Small Things: Hand-Drawn Lines](https://luma.com/rh42xa3y) — 2026-08-07 · Toronto
- [Scentscapes: Designing with Fragrance](https://luma.com/dwc2026-w9es) — 2026-08-07 · Calgary
- [Intro to Startups](https://luma.com/v5lq34gd) — 2026-08-07 · Vancouver
- [Slow Dating Montréal #166 (Anglo - Hetero 30-45)](https://luma.com/slow-dating-166) — 2026-08-07 · Montréal
- [Call & Response: The Sound of Memory](https://luma.com/dwc2026-ef37) — 2026-08-07 · Calgary
- [Sip and Learn - Cinematic Language: Directing Horror](https://luma.com/d9w02acw) — 2026-08-08 · Montréal
- [Breaking Down The Wall](https://luma.com/dwc2026-7y24) — 2026-08-08 · Calgary

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in Canada: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in Canada right now?

There are about 5,241 active tech roles in Canada on Feeny right now, spread across 732 companies. These are live listings we scrape and refresh, not a cached number that sat stale for a quarter. Toronto carries most of the volume, but Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa each add their own weight. If a role shows here, the company had it open when we last checked.

### Which cities in Canada have the most tech jobs?

Toronto is the clear center of gravity and where most of the 6 Canadian cities we track send their volume. Montreal ranks high on the strength of its AI research scene around Mila, and Vancouver plus the Waterloo corridor add real depth beyond the top spot. Calgary, Mississauga, and Ottawa fill out the rest, with Ottawa punching up thanks to Shopify. The hiring is more distributed than most people expect for a country this size.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Canada?

Cohere put Toronto on the map as a genuine AI player, and it hires alongside a deep fintech bench in Wealthsimple and Neo Financial. Commerce infrastructure runs through Lightspeed, and Shopify anchors Ottawa. On the research side, Mila keeps Montreal in the conversation for ML talent. The names span frontier AI, consumer finance, and platform engineering rather than clustering in one lane.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in Canada?

AI and ML work has moved from a side note to a real pillar here, driven by Cohere and the Montreal research crowd. Fintech is the other big draw, with Wealthsimple and Neo Financial building consumer finance at scale. Beyond that, platform and backend engineering carries a lot of the day-to-day demand across commerce and SaaS companies. It is a market where an ML or infrastructure background travels well.

### What is it like to work in tech in Canada?

Canada gives you a real tech scene without the intensity or the rents of the Bay Area, and the AI research culture in Toronto and Montreal is a genuine draw for people who want depth over hype. Salaries run lower than US equivalents once you convert, and Toronto and Vancouver housing is expensive by any honest measure. What you get in return is a stable, well-supported market with strong universities feeding it. For a lot of engineers that trade is worth making.

### Can international candidates get a work visa to work in tech in Canada?

Canada is one of the most immigration-friendly tech markets in the world, and it shows in the process. Express Entry gives skilled workers a points-based path to permanent residence, and the Global Talent Stream can turn around work permits for eligible tech roles in about two weeks. Clear pathways to PR mean relocation here is a real plan, not a long shot. If you are a skilled foreign engineer, this is one of the easier countries to actually move to.

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