Senior AI Engineer
CI Financial Corp.4 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$70k - $120k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production-grade generative AI and agentic AI applications using existing LLMs through API integration, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Design and lead development of agentic systems supporting multi-step reasoning, task decomposition, and tool use for complex business workflows.
- Contribute to a reusable and scalable AI platform with shared tooling, agent frameworks, and infrastructure.
- Build web application AI solutions using React or Streamlit.
- Set technical direction and best practices for generative AI and agentic solution design, including evaluation methodology, guardrails, and reliability.
- Iterate on models and LLM-powered tools using performance metrics, cost data, and user feedback.
- Lead design and code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
- Partner with business, engineering, and governance stakeholders to deliver production AI solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
- 4–8+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or AI engineering, including hands-on production system delivery.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and shipping agentic AI systems involving multi-step reasoning, task decomposition, and tool use.
- Experience architecting LLM-powered systems around rate limits, quota management, retries, backoff, and cost-per-call constraints.
- Deep understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, and generative output evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python and machine learning or AI libraries such as Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
- Hands-on experience designing and orchestrating agentic workflows, including tool or function calling.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Experience with cloud-based environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Benefits
- In-office work model requiring onsite attendance four days per week.
- Modern headquarters within walking distance of Union Station.
- Training reimbursement and paid professional designations.
- Employee Savings Plan and corporate discount program.
- Enhanced group benefits, including health insurance, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans.
- Parental leave top-up program, paid time off for volunteering, paid holidays, vacation time, and other paid leave programs.
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About CI Financial Corp.
CI Financial Corp. is a Toronto-based public company on the TSX that provides asset management and wealth management services to individuals and institutions. It offers mutual funds, ETFs, and discretionary investment strategies, along with advisory, brokerage, and direct-investing platforms through businesses such as CI Global Asset Management, Assante Wealth Management, CI Investment Services, and CI Direct Investing. The firm earns fee revenue from managed assets and advisory services in Canada and select global markets.