Senior AI Platform & Agent Runtime Architect

EQ Bank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EQ Bank is seeking a Staff AI Platform & Agent Runtime Engineer to architect and operate a scalable foundation for enterprise AI workloads, delivering secure, reliable agent execution from experimentation to production.

You will lead platform direction, collaborate across engineering, security, risk and business stakeholders, and shape CI/CD pipelines for ML/LLM workloads while optimizing performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software, platform, or cloud engineering experience, with 3+ years in AI/ML platforms or agentic AI systems.
• Experience with Azure (AKS, networking, private endpoints, identity, Key Vault) and Azure AI Foundry or equivalent.
• CI/CD pipelines for ML/LLM workloads (model, prompt, and agent lifecycle management).
• Strong background in distributed systems, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and API/SDK design.
• Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, LangChain, AutoGen) and orchestration patterns.
• LLM inference optimization, model routing, evaluation, and observability.
• Track record of establishing platform standards, paved paths, and developer enablement at scale.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, security, risk, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI platform architecture and roadmap.
• Design, build and operate AI-native CI/CD platforms.
• Implement secure-by-design AI controls and governance.
• Define reliability, observability, resilience and FinOps practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and developer enablement programs.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering teams.

Skills

AI/ML platforms

CI/CD for ML/LLM

Distributed systems

API/SDK design

Agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel,Lang

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Azure AKS

Key Vault

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

EQ Bank is seeking a Staff AI Platform & Agent Runtime Engineer to architect and operate a scalable foundation for enterprise AI workloads, delivering secure, reliable agent execution from experimentation to production.

You will lead platform direction, collaborate across engineering, security, risk and business stakeholders, and shape CI/CD pipelines for ML/LLM workloads while optimizing performance and observability.