Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 168,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks a Senior Generative AI Developer to drive design, development, and integration of state-of-the-art AI solutions across the enterprise Controls Technology platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect context engineering, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent orchestration, deploying production-ready agents on hosted foundation models with strong emphasis on safety, governance, and observability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of AI/software development experience with Generative AI and agentic AI.
• Strong Python skills and experience with data preprocessing, ingestion, and API development.
• Deep expertise in foundation models, embeddings, and tokenization.
• Proficiency with GenAI APIs and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with vector databases and large-scale retrieval.
• Hands-on experience building RAG systems and multi-vector retrieval.
• Experience designing knowledge graphs and Graph RAG pipelines (Neo4j, ArangoDB).
• Proven experience with Google ADK, LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Experience with multi-agent orchestration patterns and harness engineering.
• Agent interoperability protocols MCP and A2A.
• Observability with OpenTelemetry.
• AWS cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
• NLP skills: NER, parsing, classification, topic modeling.
• Understanding of AI compliance and responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI architects to design and implement AI solutions.
• Architect context engineering strategies for reliability and token efficiency.
• Design and implement advanced generative AI methods and RAG.
• Build and optimize RAG systems with multi-vector retrieval.
• Design knowledge graphs and Graph RAG for multi-hop retrieval.
• Architect agentic workflows using ADK and similar frameworks.
• Governance, constraints, and safety for long-running agents.
• Integrate agents with tools via MCP and A2A protocols.
• Support deployment and observability of AI solutions.
• Mentor junior developers and perform code reviews.

Skills

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Python

LLMs

Context engineering

RAG systems

Knowledge graphs

Distributed systems

NLP

Cloud AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Google ADK

Neo4j

ArangoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAI API

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Generative AI Developer to help drive the design, development, and integration of state‑of‑the-art Generative AI and agentic AI solutions across our enterprise Controls Technology platform. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, contribute deep technical expertise in context engineering, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, and multi‑agent orchestration, and play a key role in delivering scalable, grounded AI solutions to enhance automation and operational efficiency. This role centers on architecting robust applications and agent systems on top of pre‑trained and hosted foundation models — not on training or fine‑tuning models.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI architects, leads, and stakeholders to design and implement generative and agentic AI solutions that address business challenges.
• Architect advanced context engineering strategies — context layering, chaining, compression, pruning/offloading, and memory management — to maximize reliability, provenance, and token efficiency in production.
• Design and implement advanced generative AI methods, including sophisticated prompt engineering and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Build and optimize RAG systems, including hybrid search, multi‑vector retrieval, and re‑ranking pipelines.
• Design and implement knowledge graphs and Graph RAG architectures to enable multi‑hop reasoning, explainability, and traceable, grounded responses for high‑value business domains.
• Architect agentic workflows and multi‑agent systems using Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and comparable frameworks (LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI), applying orchestration patterns such as supervisor/worker, hierarchical, and peer‑to‑peer.
• Design robust agent harnesses — governance, constraints, feedback loops, state/session management, and execution controls that make long‑running agent systems reliable and safe.
• Integrate agents with tools and data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and orchestrate inter‑agent collaboration and task delegation via the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
• Support the integration of GenAI and agentic applications into production environments, ensuring robust deployment, scalability, observability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the development and optimization of real‑time and streaming AI solutions.
• Stay current with the latest advances in generative and agentic AI and actively share knowledge with the team.
• Ensure adherence to ethical AI guidelines, guardrails, agent isolation/sandboxing, data privacy, and compliance standards.
• Mentor junior team members, provide code reviews, and foster a culture of technical excellence.

Required Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience in AI/software development, including significant experience in Generative AI and agentic AI.
• Strong skills in Python and experience with data preprocessing, document ingestion, and API development.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in core generative AI concepts — foundation models, LLMs, embeddings, tokenization, and context‑window management.
• Proficiency with major GenAI APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, etc.) and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
• Advanced skills in prompt engineering and context engineering, including familiarity with prompt design tools/frameworks and dynamic context orchestration.
• Proficiency with vector databases and embedding models for large‑scale retrieval.
• Strong experience building RAG systems, including chunking strategies, hybrid search, and multi‑vector retrieval.
• Practical experience designing knowledge graphs and Graph RAG pipelines (e.g., using graph databases such as Neo4j or ArangoDB) for relationship‑aware, multi‑hop retrieval.
• Proven experience building agentic AI systems with Google ADK and/or comparable frameworks (LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK), including tool/function calling, planning, and memory.
• Strong grasp of multi‑agent orchestration patterns (supervisor/worker, hierarchical, peer‑to‑peer) and harness engineering (governance, feedback loops, execution controls, agent isolation/sandboxing).
• Hands‑on experience with agent interoperability protocols — the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool/data access and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for inter‑agent collaboration.
• Experience with agent observability and evaluation (e.g., tracing, OpenTelemetry‑based tooling) for production agent systems.
• Experience working with AWS (or equivalent) cloud infrastructure for AI/GenAI.
• Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines for AI/agentic applications.
• Strong skills in NLP (NER, dependency parsing, text classification, topic modeling).
• Solid understanding of AI compliance, guardrails, and responsible AI practices.
• Demonstrated portfolio of successful AI‑driven projects in a business environment.

Required Soft Skills

• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively in cross‑functional teams.
• Analytical and proactive approach to problem‑solving.
• Clear communication skills for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Eagerness to learn, innovate, and mentor less experienced developers.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high‑level review of the types of work performed. Other job‑related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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