Base Salary
$100k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Financial Advisors, field leaders, and business stakeholders to identify and validate high-value agentic workflow opportunities.
- Lead rapid proof-of-concept cycles and design multi-agent interactions across vendor, enterprise, and internal agents.
- Act as Product Owner for agentic workflows, defining use cases, success metrics, validated solution patterns, and iteration plans.
- Develop reusable agent design patterns covering prompting, orchestration, memory, tool usage, retrieval, and escalation paths.
- Align agentic solutions with approved enterprise frameworks, architecture, platform standards, and governance requirements.
- Manage and develop Context Engineers and Prompt Engineers and establish best practices for context design, retrieval, and agent behavior tuning.
- Travel approximately 25% to branches and field locations to observe workflows, validate usability, and drive adoption.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of total engineering experience, including 2–3+ years specifically building agentic or LLM systems beyond prototypes.
- Hands-on experience with RAG architecture, including chunking tradeoffs, retrieval failures, and evaluation.
- Experience building or extending tool-integration layers that connect LLM agents to external systems.
- Strong Python backend development skills with FastAPI, Pydantic, asynchronous programming, and streaming responses.
- Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions, including multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and tool-using agents.
- Strong understanding of agent frameworks, architectures, memory models, tool integration, and event-driven agents.
- Experience operating as a builder and product-owner hybrid with judgment about when to use AI versus deterministic automation.
- Experience designing workflow-driven automation and working across business, engineering, and enterprise governance functions.
- Leadership experience managing technical talent and strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience in Wealth Management or Financial Services and familiarity with Salesforce Agentforce are preferred.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures, AI risk, model governance, explainability frameworks, and human-centered design is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Paid time off and discretionary variable compensation in addition to base salary.
- Coaching and management opportunities supporting professional development.
- Full-time, regular salaried role based in Minneapolis with approximately 25% travel to branches and field locations.
- Opportunities to work with clients and make a lasting impact in a collaborative, progressive, high-performing team.
Tech Stack
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About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact. http://rbc.com/legalstuff. La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social. https://www.rbc.com/conditions-dutilisation/