Agentic AI Engineer: Innovation for Production Agents

Manulife Financial; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 94,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, mental health, vision,

Short‑ and long‑term disability, life,

AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/sur"

Job summary

Manulife Financial invites applications for an Agentic Engineer, Innovation in Montreal. You will design, build, and scale agentic AI solutions for Canada AI, translating high‑value opportunities into secure, reusable capabilities on Manulife’s Global AI Platform.

You will work with Product, Data Science, MLOps, Technology, Risk, and Global AI Platform teams to move solutions from prototype to production, creating intelligent agents that reason, plan, retrieve information, and automate complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience developing machine learning, generative AI, or agentic AI solutions in enterprise environments using governed, reusable delivery patterns.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience in AI application architecture, orchestration, retrieval, prompt design, evaluation, integration, and production monitoring.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, vector search, embedding models, agent frameworks, API integration, cloud‑native development, CI/CD, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
• Ability to build secure, scalable, platform‑ready AI solutions while collaborating with architecture, MLOps, product, risk, and business stakeholder teams.
• Bilingualism in English and French is an asset. If the successful candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required to support clients from various provinces outside of Québec.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AI agents and multi-agent systems that support reasoning, planning, retrieval, workflow automation, and task execution.
• Develop agentic workflows using LLMs, RAG, APIs, tools, enterprise knowledge sources, memory, orchestration, and decision-making capabilities.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and refine proofs of concept and MVPs that demonstrate measurable business value and can scale beyond experimentation.
• Build predictive, generative, and agentic AI solutions using sound machine learning, evaluation, and analytics practices.
• Engineer reusable, platform-ready components, prompts, connectors, orchestration patterns, evaluation flows, and knowledge integrations.
• Align solutions to Manulife’s Global AI Platform architecture, tooling, deployment patterns, governance standards, and approved engineering practices.
• Operationalize AI solutions with testing, observability, monitoring, reliability controls, documentation, and clear handoff requirements.
• Support onboarding of priority Canada AI use cases to the Global AI Platform through discovery, fit-gap assessment, remediation, and readiness activities.
• Contribute reusable reference architectures, code patterns, evaluation methods, playbooks, and development standards.
• Ensure solutions meet Responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, model risk, governance, and monitoring requirements.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs

RAG

APIs

Cloud-native development

MLOps/LLMOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Data Science/AI/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AKS

PostgreSQL

Key Vault

Vector databases

Embeddings

LLMOps practices

Job description

Manulife Financial invites applications for an Agentic Engineer, Innovation in Montreal. You will design, build, and scale agentic AI solutions for Canada AI, translating high‑value opportunities into secure, reusable capabilities on Manulife’s Global AI Platform.

You will work with Product, Data Science, MLOps, Technology, Risk, and Global AI Platform teams to move solutions from prototype to production, creating intelligent agents that reason, plan, retrieve information, and automate complex