Hybrid Staff Engineer

at Tali AI

• Job title: Staff Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: CA$175,000 - CA$225,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Staff Engineer developing AI platforms for clinical workflows at Tali AI. Joining a fast-growing startup focused on improving healthcare access through advanced technology.

Responsibilities

• We're hiring a Staff Engineer who reports to the VP Engineering and works on our highest-stakes, most ambiguous technical problems.
• You'll work on projects that are strategically critical and don't yet have a clear shape. You give them shape. You de-risk them, make the irreversible decisions visible, and drive them to completion.
• Our engineering spans: Real-time AI workflows, Reliability engineering, AI infrastructure and platform engineering, GTM engineering, Security, privacy, and compliance.
• You'll work with a small and growing team that ships daily, reasons clearly, and cares about the clinicians and patients on the other side of every decision.
• AI is central to how you work, not as a productivity tool but as a lever for judgment and scope.

Requirements

• Proven Technical Leadership: You've shipped complex systems from ambiguous starting points. You've made high-stakes architectural decisions under uncertainty and can articulate the tradeoffs clearly enough that others learn from them.
• AI Proficiency: You use AI to decompose large problems, maintain coherence across that execution, and apply genuine architectural judgment to what comes out. You know when the output belongs in the codebase and when it doesn't.
• Product Judgment: You have strong product instincts and use them. On problems that need it, you can define scope, make prioritization calls, and connect technical choices to outcomes without waiting for a PM. You know when "good enough now" beats "perfect later". You also know when it doesn't.
• Force Multiplier: You make people around you better through the quality of your decisions, the visibility of your reasoning, and the standards you set in code review and architecture discussions.

Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options & flexible work hours
• Comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one
• Competitive PTO, including winter shutdown Dec 25 - Jan 1, birthdays and Taliversaries, and 'extra long' long weekends
• $2000 annually in "Knowledge Dollars" to learn, grow, and level up
• Quarterly socials & company outings that bring our team together beyond the day-to-day