Forward Deployed Engineer
Hitachi Energy · Toronto, Ontario, Canada ·
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 125,000 – 270,000 / year
Hitachi Energy · Toronto, Ontario, Canada ·
Function
ServicesWe’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
This role is open to candidates who are local and authorized to work in Toronto or New York.
What You Will be Doing
We are seeking a highly skilled Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) with deep expertise in data virtualization, hybrid cloud architectures, and AI-driven solution validation. This role partners directly with customers to design and prototype composable data and AI solutions that validate technical feasibility, performance assumptions, and measurable business value across distributed data ecosystems.
The FDE role blends hands-on engineering, limited-scope economic modeling, and customer-facing technical storytelling. The ideal candidate thrives in the field, integrating partner technologies, building working prototypes, and demonstrating GenAI and agentic AI outcomes using customer and industry datasets.
Role Boundaries & Ownership
This role focuses on proving technical feasibility and business value through hands-on prototyping and customer facing engagements.
This role is not:
This role partners closely with:
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Engineering
AI, GenAI & Agentic AI Enablement
Financial & Efficiency Modeling
Customer Engagement & Presales
What You Will Bring to the Team
Technical Skills & Experience
Preferred Qualifications
Why This Role
This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep technical engineering, customer engagement, and value validation.
As a Forward‑Deployed Engineer, you will help customers prove what is possible, accelerating confidence and decision‑making—while enabling clean handoff to delivery and operational teams once value and feasibility are established.
As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $125K to $270K Expected on-target earnings: $170K to $330K
The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.
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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.