Senior AI Engineer — Production-Grade Finance AI

Aimlroles; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO Financial Group in Chicago is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and run production-grade AI solutions across Finance. You will own solutions end to end, from user interfaces to backend services and data integration.

Join a governance-driven program that emphasizes auditable, compliant AI. You will collaborate with FP&A, Controllership and Treasury to deploy scalable AI across finance functions and drive value with responsible AI practices.

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 (e.g., LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen or equivalent) RAG architectures and vector databases prompt and context engineering.
• Experience with cloud AI services (Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry and/or AWS Bedrock), containers, CI/CD and observability tooling.
• Proven ability to evaluate non-deterministic systems and build automated test and evaluation pipelines.
• Experience in a regulated environment, with an understanding of auditability, explainability, security and data privacy.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical Finance stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a 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, and make sound trade-offs between accuracy, latency, cost and maintainability.
• Build multi-step agentic workflows using tool and function calling, MCP integrations, and orchestration frameworks.
• Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over Finance policies, documents and structured data, including chunking, embeddings, vector search and context engineering.
• Embed human-in-the-loop controls for material judgments, approvals and financial postings.
• Build evaluation harnesses with golden datasets to measure accuracy, consistency, groundedness and regression across model and prompt changes.
• Document methodology, assumptions and limitations. Define acceptance thresholds with business owners.
• Partner with the Technology and AI Platform teams on CI/CD, security reviews, resilience and support handover.

Skills

Python

React/TypeScript

API design

SQL & data modeling

LLM deployment

Cloud AI services

CI/CD & observability

Regulated environments

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

Vector databases

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Databricks

Snowflake

Power BI

Oracle/Hyperion

Job description

BMO Financial Group in Chicago is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and run production-grade AI solutions across Finance. You will own solutions end to end, from user interfaces to backend services and data integration.

Join a governance-driven program that emphasizes auditable, compliant AI. You will collaborate with FP&A, Controllership and Treasury to deploy scalable AI across finance functions and drive value with responsible AI practices.