AI Engineer

About the Position
Requisition ID: 255027
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Division: Global Wealth Management Technology (GWMT)

The AI Engineer role is responsible for designing and deploying production-grade AI solutions across Scotiabank's Global Wealth Management Technology division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage Generative AI use cases for production use.
• Build data pipelines and extract features from structured and semi-structured data.
• Develop agentic systems leveraging large language models for autonomous task execution.
• Contribute to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and agent memory structures.
• Automate LLM pipelines including preprocessing, training, and evaluation workflows.
• Implement CI/CD for AI solutions on cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP).
• Apply LLMOps practices for model reproducibility, monitoring, and governance.
• Ensure operational reliability through containerization and infrastructure-as-code.
• Uphold model governance and data compliance standards.

Required Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of professional experience in enterprise software development, AI/ML engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, or applied data science.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Spring (preferably Spring AI), React, and ML libraries.
• Strong understanding of GenAI fundamentals, including multi-agent systems.
• Experience with ML pipeline tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).
• Docker and Kubernetes containerization knowledge.
• Cloud experience with GCP Vertex AI and/or Azure ML.
• Data wrangling and basic drift detection skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• RAG workflow exposure with managed vector databases (Azure AI Search, Vertex AI Matching Engine).
• Familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, ARM templates).
• Observability tools experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).
• Financial services background.

About Scotiabank:

A leading bank in the Americas, guided by the purpose statement "for every future." Offers a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

Benefits:

Competitive rewards including bonuses, flexible vacation, benefits starting day one, upskilling opportunities through online courses, hackathons, and community engagement programs.