Production-Grade Finance AI Engineer

Bank N.A.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BMO is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and run production-grade AI solutions across Finance. You will own solutions end to end, including user experience, APIs, and agentic workflows, with strong emphasis on governance and auditability.

You will partner with FP&A, Controllership, Treasury and Finance Ops to translate business problems into scalable AI designs, ensuring reliable, auditable deployments on the enterprise AI platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and deploying LLM or generative AI applications to production.
• Expert Python, plus proficiency in a modern front-end framework (React/TypeScript preferred).
• Strong API design, SQL and data modeling skills.
• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks, RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Experience with cloud AI services, containers, CI/CD and observability tooling.
• Experience in regulated environments with auditability, security and data privacy.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical Finance stakeholders and leaders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy end-to-end AI applications: web front ends (React/TypeScript), backend services and APIs (Python/FastAPI), and integration with Finance data and systems.
• Translate Finance business problems into technical designs, balancing accuracy, latency, cost and maintainability.
• Build evaluation harnesses to measure accuracy, groundedness and regression across model changes.
• Partner with Technology and AI Platform teams on CI/CD, security reviews, resilience and support handover.
• Act as AI Developer under Governance Program: documentation, testing evidence and Monitoring Plans.
• Run demos, build reusable patterns, review code, and mentor analysts and junior engineers.

Skills

7+ yrs exp

LLM production

Python

React/TypeScript

API design

SQL

Data modeling

Agent orchestration

RAG architectures

Vector databases

Cloud AI services

CI/CD

Observability

Security & governance

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Power BI

Oracle

Hyperion

GitHub Copilot

MCP servers

Job description

BMO is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and run production-grade AI solutions across Finance. You will own solutions end to end, including user experience, APIs, and agentic workflows, with strong emphasis on governance and auditability.

You will partner with FP&A, Controllership, Treasury and Finance Ops to translate business problems into scalable AI designs, ensuring reliable, auditable deployments on the enterprise AI platform.