Citi

Staff Generative AI Engineer - Vice President

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2 months ago
Mississauga, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$121k - $171k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and deploy production Generative AI applications, LLM-powered solutions, and agentic frameworks.
  • Design intelligent agents that reason about and orchestrate complex enterprise workflows.
  • Deploy and manage containerized applications in OpenShift environments.
  • Drive Generative AI technical strategy, architectural decisions, technology choices, and roadmap development.
  • Establish engineering standards for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and continuous integration and delivery.
  • Explore new Generative AI models, techniques, and frameworks and contribute to applied engineering and research initiatives.
  • Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and management teams.
  • Deliver iterative solutions that create measurable business value and progress from prototypes to production.
  • Implement AI guardrails and ethical safeguards while assessing and mitigating organizational and regulatory risks.
  • Evaluate complex business and system processes, define enhancements, and support new products and process improvements.
  • Ensure application designs follow the overall architecture blueprint and comply with applicable policies, laws, rules, and regulations.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience delivering scalable enterprise-grade production systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree or university degree, or equivalent experience.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python and its AI/ML, data engineering, and backend-service ecosystem.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models, transformer architectures, RAG, and agentic frameworks.
  • Practical experience with containers and orchestration technologies, specifically OpenShift.
  • Ability to architect, develop, and deploy performant large-scale AI/ML systems into production.
  • Strong knowledge of clean-code practices, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and modern software development principles.
  • Proficiency with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and vector databases, preferably pgvector.
  • Full-stack development experience is advantageous.
  • Experience with model risk management, AI guardrails, and Generative AI adoption pathways is preferred.
  • Open-source contributions or relevant AI/ML research publications are preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time position with access to AI-assisted development tools including Devin and Copilot.

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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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