AI Engineer

The Team

We accelerate BMO’s AI journey by building enterprise-grade, cloud-native AI solutions. Our team combines engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable, secure, and responsible solutions that power business innovation across the bank. We enable and accelerate our partners on their AI journeys across the enterprise, helping teams across BMO unlock value at scale. We are engineers, AI practitioners, platform builders, thought leaders, multipliers, and coders. Above all, we are a global team of diverse individuals who enjoy working together to create smart, secure, and scalable solutions that make an impact across the enterprise. Our ambition is bold: deploy our capital and resources to their highest and most profitable use through a digital-first operating model, powered by data and AI-driven decisions.

About The Role

As an AI Engineer, you will contribute to a multi-year initiative dedicated to advancing our digital-first, AI-powered business for enhanced value and future readiness. In this pivotal role, you will help shape and deliver agentic systems by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) to orchestrate and automate business workflows, driving operational efficiency and optimizing user experiences. You will be hands-on in solution design, demonstrate engineering excellence, and provide technical leadership across high-impact capabilities, ensuring robust and scalable AI solutions for our organization.

Role Summary

• Drive the development of the “Agent Ecosystem” by designing, building, and operationalizing enterprise-grade AI agents and the orchestration layer that seamlessly coordinates their interactions.
• Serve as a player-coach, balancing hands-on engineering, building agent prototypes and platform components, with strategic guidance, including shaping product direction, advising on implementation best practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Initially focus on creating foundational patterns and frameworks that can be leveraged across the broader agent development landscape, enabling scalability and reusability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement an agent orchestration layer (routing, tool-calling patterns, workflow coordination, agent registry integration, state management, and failure/fallback strategies).
• Define and apply enterprise agent patterns (standard agent templates, reusable components, and orchestration controls).
• Establish observability/monitoring for agents and orchestrations: logging, tracing, drift detection signals, agent-specific metrics, and operational dashboards.
• Integrate Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft ecosystem components (with emphasis on Azure AI capabilities and “Foundry” experience where applicable).
• Partner with leadership to clarify expected outcomes/vision and translate them into an executable build plan, architecture decisions, and delivery milestones.
• Operate and support production grade AI solutions to meet availability, reliability, and performance expectation.
• Perform routine model, prompt, and configuration updates within approved change processes.
• Embed Applied AI Evals considerations into the platform: governance hooks, auditability, risk controls, and operational readiness for agents.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of AI software engineering experience, with 3+ years in AI/ML engineering, AI agent development, multi-agent systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience across Microsoft Azure services (designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native systems). Certifications in Azure AI Engineer, python is a plus.
• Strong background in AI agent ecosystems (multi-agent patterns, orchestration concepts, agent registries, tool routing, memory/state, evaluation approaches).
• Demonstrated ability to implement monitoring/observability for AI/agent solutions (logging, tracing, metrics, and operational alerting).
• Proven delivery on multiple AI initiatives—comfortable shaping ambiguity into “the right questions,” crisp requirements, and practical design.

Preferred / “Nice To Have”

• Experience with Azure AI Foundry / Microsoft “Foundry” tooling in AI solution enablement and governance/tuning workflows.
• Experience with Applied AI Evals frameworks, agent governance standards, and operational controls in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with agent taxonomy/labeling approaches and how to apply them to scale standardized development across teams.
• Background in designing enterprise-grade platform layers (identity, access controls, registry/source-of-truth patterns) for agents.
• Financial services or wealth management experience preferred.

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

Key skills/competency

• AI/ML Engineering
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Microsoft Azure Services
• Agentic Systems Design
• Orchestration Layers
• Cloud-Native Solutions
• Python Programming
• Data Governance
• Observability & Monitoring
• Technical Leadership