Lead AI & Emerging Tech Engineer – GenAI & AWS

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; On-site; CAD 247,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) is seeking a Lead Engineer for AI & Emerging Tech to drive design, development, and deployment of next-generation AI-powered solutions across the organization. You will code, architect, pilot, and mentor engineers while advancing Gen AI initiatives on AWS and modern tech stacks.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep expertise in Python, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML, with a collaborative approach to partnering with product managers,

Qualifications

• Gen AI and AI product development experience.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures.
• Strong coding and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to AI product development and pilots.
• Design and build scalable Gen AI solutions.
• Implement cloud-native solutions with AWS services.
• Drive performance optimization and experimentation with Gen AI methods.
• Collaborate with PMs and data scientists to define technical solutions.
• Own end-to-end delivery and manage timelines using Agile practices.
• Ensure governance and DevSecOps practices.

Skills

Gen AI

Python

AWS

Leadership

React

TypeScript

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Jira

Puppet

LangChain

Job description

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) is seeking a Lead Engineer for AI & Emerging Tech to drive design, development, and deployment of next-generation AI-powered solutions across the organization. You will code, architect, pilot, and mentor engineers while advancing Gen AI initiatives on AWS and modern tech stacks.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep expertise in Python, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML, with a collaborative approach to partnering with product managers,