Principal AI Platform Engineer – Governance & Guardrails

BMO Harris Bank

Chicago Heights (IL)

On-site

USD 112,000 - 209,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO Harris Bank is seeking a Principal Engineer to build and operate enterprise AI platform capabilities, including governance, observability, and identity fabrics, across AWS/Azure. You will own critical infrastructure from design through run‑book execution, with on‑call responsibility and strong focus on latency, correctness, and regulatory evidence.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in platform engineering, expertise in policy‑as‑code and zero‑trust, and experience delivering scalable,

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master's preferred).
8+ years of software/platform engineering experience (Principal) or 5+ years (Senior) with enterprise-scale platform services.
Regulated industry experience preferred (financial services).
Depth in API gateways/traffic enforcement; policy-as-code; workload identity; observability and telemetry; audit/compliance data platforms.

Responsibilities

Own capabilities end to end: design, implement, test, ship, and operate production infrastructure.
Engineer for operability and defensibility from day one: instrumentation, SLOs, latency budgets, failure modes, runtime evidence.
Build APIs, interfaces, and integrations for domain teams and pipelines to consume platform capabilities.
Implement policy enforcement, guardrails, identity attestation, and audit as first-class concerns.
Ensure runtime evidence connects AI activity to policy enforcement, identity, and lineage for regulatory review.