Two Companies Alone Account for 187 of the 598 Postings We Track

A concentrated hiring picture

Across the 598 postings we track, imported directly from 20 Canadian employers' own career pages, hiring is not evenly spread. Two companies — Neo Financial with 94 open postings and Cohere with 93 — together account for 187 postings, or nearly a third of everything in our catalogue. No other employer comes close: Tenstorrent sits third with 53, followed by Instacart at 51 and Wealthsimple at 39.

Neo Financial and the fintech build-out

Neo Financial's 94 postings sit inside a catalogue where Finance & Accounting (39 postings), Risk, Credit & Banking (16 postings), and Accounting & Audit (19 postings) are established categories, alongside heavy demand for Sales (159 postings) and Account Executive roles (36 postings). Skills like Regulatory Compliance (42 postings), AML & KYC (14 postings), and Fraud Prevention (14 postings) point to a company building out both the commercial and compliance sides of a banking product at once.

Cohere and the AI infrastructure race

Cohere's 93 postings land squarely in the categories driving our catalogue's second big theme: Data & AI (116 postings), ML Engineering & Infrastructure (43 postings), and Data Science & ML (33 postings). The skill counts back this up — Machine Learning appears in 103 postings across our catalogue, Large Language Models in 73, Retrieval-Augmented Generation in 28, and GPU Programming in 17. Python is required in 138 postings overall, the single most-requested skill we track, and it is hard to separate that figure from the volume of AI-heavy roles Cohere alone contributes.

Tenstorrent's hardware angle

Tenstorrent's 53 postings connect to a smaller but distinct part of our catalogue: Hardware & Semiconductors (31 postings), Silicon & Chip Design (17 postings), Systems & Low-Level (12 postings), and Electrical & PCB Design (6 postings). Skills such as Signal Integrity (16 postings) and Hardware Bring-Up & Validation (15 postings) appear almost nowhere else in our data, marking Tenstorrent as the primary source of chip-design hiring in the catalogue.

Instacart and Wealthsimple round out the top five

Instacart's 51 postings and Wealthsimple's 39 postings fill out categories including Retail & Store Sales (73 postings), Growth Marketing (50 postings), and Customer Success (32 postings). Between them, these two employers touch the consumer-facing side of our catalogue — marketing, growth, and support roles — in a way that contrasts with the deep technical specialization at Cohere and Tenstorrent.

What the concentration means

With only 11 of the 598 postings in our catalogue stating a salary range at all, it is difficult to say whether this concentration in a handful of employers comes with different pay practices than the rest of the market we track. What is clear from postings alone: five employers — Neo Financial, Cohere, Tenstorrent, Instacart, and Wealthsimple — account for 260 of the 598 postings we currently hold, or roughly 43% of the entire catalogue, leaving the remaining 15 employers to split the rest.

• Neo Financial — 94 postings, concentrated in Sales, Finance & Accounting, and Risk, Credit & Banking
• Cohere — 93 postings, concentrated in Data & AI, ML Engineering & Infrastructure
• Tenstorrent — 53 postings, concentrated in Hardware & Semiconductors, Silicon & Chip Design
• Instacart — 51 postings, spanning Retail & Store Sales, Growth Marketing
• Wealthsimple — 39 postings, spanning Customer Success, Finance & Accounting