Senior GenAI & Agentic AI Engineer

CI Financial; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness programs

Life & disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid leave

Education programs

Paid holidays & vacation

Job summary

CI Financial is seeking an experienced and technically strong Senior AI Engineer to join our Data, AI & Analytics (DNA) team. This role focuses on the applied use of Generative AI and Agentic AI, leveraging existing large language models (LLMs) and platforms—not building models from scratch.

As a senior member of the team, you'll take technical ownership of intelligent applications and automation tools that use LLMs to solve business problems, set best practices for the team, and mentor junior

Qualifications

• 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 a data science, machine learning, or AI engineering role, including hands-on experience delivering production systems.
• Experience designing around real-world infrastructure limitations—rate limits, quota management, retries/backoff, and cost-per-call.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build production-grade intelligent systems and applications using existing LLMs through API integration, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Design, prototype, and lead development of agentic AI systems capable of multi-step reasoning, task decomposition, and tool use to automate and support complex business workflows.
• Contribute to the design of a reusable, scalable AI platform with shared tooling and infrastructure.
• Build web app AI solutions using React or Streamlit.
• Set technical direction and best practices for GenAI and agentic solution design, including evaluation methodology, guardrails, and reliability of LLM-powered systems.
• Drive continuous iteration and improvement of models and LLM-powered tools based on performance metrics, cost, and user feedback.
• Lead design and code reviews, championing best practices around experimentation, reproducibility, and responsible AI.

Job description

CI Financial is seeking an experienced and technically strong Senior AI Engineer to join our Data, AI & Analytics (DNA) team. This role focuses on the applied use of Generative AI and Agentic AI, leveraging existing large language models (LLMs) and platforms—not building models from scratch.

As a senior member of the team, you'll take technical ownership of intelligent applications and automation tools that use LLMs to solve business problems, set best practices for the team, and mentor junior