Forward Deployed AI Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.</p></div><h1>Forward Deployed AI Engineer</h1> <p>Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Hybrid (3 days/week in office)</p> <h2>About Banyan:</h2> <p>Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC.</p> <h2>The Role:</h2> <p>The Forward Deployed AI Engineer plays a critical role in how Banyan applies AI across our internal business functions — Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and beyond. You will understand how our teams work, reimagine the workflows behind them, and build the high-value AI tools that make our functions faster, sharper, and smarter: automating triage and reporting, forecasting demand and capacity, surfacing risk and cost insights, and streamlining the repetitive work behind each function. The common thread across every function is the same thing: get close to the work, find the problem worth solving, and build something that materially changes how the team operates.</p> <p>You will join a world-class operation sitting on a vast quantity of high-quality data waiting to be leveraged. Think of yourself as a builder and a translator, fluent in what modern AI can do and trusted to bridge business needs and technical capability. You will get close enough to the work to understand what teams are trying to achieve, define what good looks like, and determine how technology can get them there - sometimes by buying an existing solution, more often by building it yourself.</p> <p>· Embed and own the process. Learn the systems, KPIs, and pain points well enough that the teams you support treat you as one of their own.</p> <p>· Find where AI can most change how work gets done. Identify high-value opportunities across functions, then sequence the work by impact, effort, and risk.</p> <p>· Turn ambiguous business problems into working solutions. Understand what stakeholders are trying to achieve, prototype quickly, and build successful solutions to scale.</p> <p>· Build AI-native tools. Prototype and ship applications using LLMs, retrieval, and agentic workflows, using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code as part of how you work</p> <p>· Make the build-versus-buy call. Bring a clear point of view on the trade-offs, with an expectation that many of our highest-value solutions will be built internally.</p>