Senior Generative & Agentic AI Engineer

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and integrate agentic AI solutions across enterprise platforms. The role focuses on context engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent orchestration with safety and governance in production systems.

You will work with Google ADK and other frameworks to deliver scalable, grounded AI applications, with strong emphasis on observability and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in AI/software development, including significant experience in Generative AI and agentic AI.
• Strong skills in Python and experience with data preprocessing, document ingestion, and API development.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in core generative AI concepts - foundation models, LLMs, embeddings, tokenization, and context-window management.
• Proficiency with major GenAI APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, etc.) and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
• Advanced skills in prompt engineering and context engineering, including familiarity with prompt design tools/frameworks and dynamic context orchestration.
• Proficiency with vector databases and embedding models for large-scale retrieval.
• Strong experience building RAG systems, including chunking strategies, hybrid search, and multi-vector retrieval.
• Practical experience designing knowledge graphs and Graph RAG pipelines (e.g., using graph databases such as Neo4j or ArangoDB) for relationship-aware, multi-hop retrieval.
• Proven experience building agentic AI systems with Google ADK and/or comparable frameworks (LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK), including tool/function calling, planning, and memory.
• Strong grasp of multi-agent orchestration patterns (supervisor/worker, hierarchical, peer-to-peer) and harness engineering (governance, feedback loops, execution controls, agent isolation/sandboxing).
• Hands-on experience with agent interoperability protocols - the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool/data access and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for inter-agent collaboration.
• Experience with agent observability and evaluation (e.g., tracing, OpenTelemetry-based tooling) for production agent systems.
• Experience working with AWS (or equivalent) cloud infrastructure for AI/GenAI.
• Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines for AI/agentic applications.
• Strong skills in NLP (NER, dependency parsing, text classification, topic modeling).
• Solid understanding of AI compliance, guardrails, and responsible AI practices.
• Demonstrated portfolio of successful AI-driven projects in a business environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI architects, leads, and stakeholders to design and implement generative and agentic AI solutions that address business challenges.
• Architect advanced context engineering strategies - context layering, chaining, compression, pruning/offloading, and memory management - to maximize reliability, provenance, and token efficiency in production.
• Design and implement advanced generative AI methods, including sophisticated prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Build and optimize RAG systems, including hybrid search, multi-vector retrieval, and re-ranking pipelines.
• Design and implement knowledge graphs and Graph RAG architectures to enable multi-hop reasoning, explainability, and traceable, grounded responses for high-value business domains.
• Architect agentic workflows and multi-agent systems using Google ADK and comparable frameworks, applying orchestration patterns such as supervisor/worker, hierarchical, and peer-to-peer.
• Design robust agent harnesses - governance, constraints, feedback loops, state/session management, and execution controls that make long-running agent systems reliable and safe.
• Integrate agents with tools and data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and orchestrate inter-agent collaboration and task delegation via the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
• Support the integration of GenAI and agentic applications into production environments, ensuring robust deployment, scalability, observability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the development and optimization of real-time and streaming AI solutions.
• Stay current with the latest advances in generative and agentic AI and actively share knowledge with the team.
• Ensure adherence to ethical AI guidelines, guardrails, agent isolation/sandboxing, data privacy, and compliance standards.
• Mentor junior team members, provide code reviews, and foster a culture of technical excellence.

Skills

Python

GenAI concepts

OpenAI API

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Context engineering

RAG systems

Knowledge graphs

Google ADK

Multi-agent orchestration

NLP

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Neo4j

ArangoDB

OpenAI API

Google ADK

Job description

Citi in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and integrate agentic AI solutions across enterprise platforms. The role focuses on context engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent orchestration with safety and governance in production systems.

You will work with Google ADK and other frameworks to deliver scalable, grounded AI applications, with strong emphasis on observability and enterprise integration.