Citi

Lead Python AI Principal Engineer (Hands-On), SVP

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2 months ago
Mississauga, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$145k - $218k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end development of complex AI solutions, infrastructure, and architecture.
  • Lead and guide engineers and data scientists while reviewing designs and code.
  • Translate ambiguous business and product problems into technical direction and define engineering and data science success metrics.
  • Design model architectures, retrieval strategies, prompting and orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for reliable and scalable products.
  • Architect solutions for use cases across Citi’s lines of business with data science, technology, and business stakeholders.
  • Contribute hands-on to software development, including coding and code review.
  • Build and maintain Python-based Generative AI components, including RAG pipelines, model wrappers, orchestration logic, and data loaders.
  • Ensure error handling, observability, and test coverage across codebases.
  • Manage executive technology stakeholder relationships and multiple concurrent initiatives.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of software industry experience, including progressive hands-on experience in a senior position such as Principal Engineer.
  • At least 6 years of hands-on Python engineering experience.
  • Experience serving as a people manager, as the role may include management responsibilities.
  • Extensive experience delivering complex technical solutions to production within the Python and AI/ML ecosystem.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience integrating AI/ML technologies hands-on.
  • Experience with cloud architectures and public cloud offerings.
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and influence highly skilled engineering teams.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, analytical, strategic-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Financial industry experience is a major advantage.
  • A bachelor’s or university degree or equivalent experience is required; a master’s degree is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time position.
  • Primary location salary range is $145,100.00-$217,700.00 per year.
  • Citi offers an equal opportunity workplace and promotes professional development, diversity, and inclusion.

Tech Stack

FastAPIPython
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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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