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Job Description
Lead AI Engineer Toronto / Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hybrid) Phone +
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Design, build, and own production agentic AI systems end-to-end across the Wealth Management platform. This is the core builder role on a greenfield AI squad. You will design and ship production-grade agentic AI systems
solving real enterprise problems across financial services workflows.
You won't just prototype; you own systems through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. The team is new, patterns are yours to define, and the problems are high-value with direct business impact. This role may grow into a technical lead position as the team scales.
WHAT YOU'LL BUILD
Multi-tool ReAct agentic systems with LLM-driven reasoning loops, tool chaining, and state management RAG pipelines
ingestion, chunking strategy, hybrid retrieval (vector + keyword), freshness management, citation grounding Custom tool integration layers connecting AI agents to enterprise systems and internal APIs Streaming backends, session management, rate limiting, and enterprise-grade hardening Eval frameworks
golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression detection in CI/CD Tiered LLM routing for cost / latency / quality optimization
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE 8-10
years total engineering experience
with 2-3+ years specifically building production agentic or LLM systems (not just prototypes) and 5-6 years in software engineering, backend systems, or adjacent technical roles Hands-on RAG architecture
chunking tradeoffs, retrieval failures, evaluation Built or extended tool integration layers connecting LLM agents to external systems Strong Python backend
FastAPI, async, Pydantic, streaming responses Deployed on Kubernetes / OpenShift with Vault, health probes, CI/CD Can diagnose a RAG system returning wrong answers
not just "reprompt it" Knows when NOT to use agents
cost/complexity tradeoff thinking
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or enterprise LLM gateway patterns Experience with structured data query generation (NL-to-SQL) and output validation Financial services or regulated industry background LoRA / PEFT fine-tuning with clear reasoning on when to fine-tune vs. prompt engineer Prior consulting delivery