Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of LLM-powered AI agents for payment processing and automation.
- Establish and champion AI Development Lifecycle practices using Spec-Driven Development approaches.
- Architect and implement MLOps pipelines for model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Define and enforce standards for AI model specification, documentation, and versioning.
- Evaluate and integrate tools and technologies that improve AI development efficiency and quality.
- Mentor team members on AI development practices, LLM frameworks, and modern ML engineering techniques.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable AI solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, code quality, and team productivity.
- Assess emerging AI technologies for applicability to payment systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years focused on machine learning and AI solutions.
- Expert Python proficiency and deep experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
- Production experience building applications powered by Large Language Models and frameworks such as LangChain or Langraph.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and development best practices.
- Hands-on experience with MLOps, including model versioning, ML delivery pipelines, monitoring, and A/B testing.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OpenShift, as well as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ability to architect scalable and maintainable AI systems.
- Strong leadership, mentorship, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with Spec-Driven Development, API design, or technical documentation standards.
- Preferred qualifications include financial services or payment processing experience, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG, model governance, compliance, responsible AI, data engineering, data pipelines, NLP research, advanced AI techniques, open-source AI/ML contributions, or relevant cloud and AI/ML certifications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
- Development support through coaching and management opportunities.
- Opportunities to make a lasting impact, take on progressively greater accountabilities, and perform challenging work.
- Access to varied career opportunities across the business.
- Full-time, regular salaried employment in Toronto, Canada, with a 37.5-hour work week.
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About RBC
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