Principal AI Platform Engineer: Governance & Observability

BMO

Chicago Heights (IL)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 220,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO is building enterprise AI platform capabilities to govern AI workloads across AWS and Azure. This Principal Engineer role focuses on end-to-end platform infrastructure, policy enforcement, and runtime evidence for regulatory review.

You will lead the design, operation, and optimization of the AI gateway, registry, and guardrails runtimes, ensuring low latency and strong operability. The role emphasizes building scalable, production-grade services with on-call responsibilities, collaboration

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
8+ years of software/platform engineering experience (Principal) with enterprise-scale shared services.
Experience operating production infra with real SLOs and on-call ownership, in regulated environments preferred.
Depth in API gateways, policy-as-code, workload identity, observability, and 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.
Build APIs and integrations for domains, DevOps pipelines, and enterprise systems.
Implement policy enforcement, guardrails, identity attestation, and audit as core concerns.
Ensure runtime evidence connecting AI activity to policy and lineage for reviews.
Mentor the team and raise engineering standards; collaborate with AI security and governance groups.