Citigroup

Citigroup

AI Applied Senior Engineering Lead

Mississauga Ontario Canada, CA · Senior · Full-time

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About the role

  • This role focuses on implementing scalable, agentic AI frameworks and generative AI solutions within small, agile squads.
  • The successful candidate will operate with an AI‑first mindset, emphasizing rapid prototyping, MVP‑driven development, and iterative delivery of production‑grade AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • AI Solution Development: Design, implement, and deploy scalable agentic AI frameworks and generative AI solutions for critical business use cases, ensuring robustness, performance, security, and reliability.
  • Agentic Systems: Develop and integrate agentic AI systems leveraging multiple model providers and platforms (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google APIs).
  • Full‑Stack AI Engineering: Build full‑stack applications integrating LLM‑driven workflows and AI coding tools (e.g., Devin, GitHub Copilot).
  • Iterative Delivery: Drive an MVP‑first, rapid‑iteration approach with continuous experimentation and improvement.
  • Evaluation & Optimization: Define and implement metrics, evaluation strategies, and feedback loops to continuously improve AI system performance and behavior.
  • Citi's Banking Technology organization is seeking a highly hands-on AI Applied Senior Engineering Lead to design, build, and deploy cutting‑edge AI solutions for Investment, Corporate, and Commercial Banking.

Requirements

  • AI/ML Expertise:
  • Hands‑on experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, MCPs, and agent frameworks (e.g., Google ADK).
  • Practical experience with ML frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit‑learn, NumPy, Pandas).
  • Familiarity with AI coding tools such as Devin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity.
  • Architecture: Experience designing API‑first, microservices‑based and event‑driven architectures, including data engineering patterns for AI systems.
  • Platforms: Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
  • Problem Solving & Communication: Strong analytical skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts.
  • working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (Angular, Node.js). Full‑stack experience is a plus.
  • Solid understanding of core AI concepts such as knowledge representation, planning, and multi‑agent systems.
  • Software Engineering: Strong grounding in modern engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, testing, code reviews, agile delivery, application resiliency, and security.
  • Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of banking/financial services and regulated environments.
  • Nice to Have: Experience in data science (statistical modeling, experimentation) and interest in mentoring junior AI engineers.

Nice to have

  • Experience in data science (statistical modeling, experimentation) and interest in mentoring junior AI engineers.
  • 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with a strong hands‑on coding background.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise‑scale AI capabilities into production.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related quantitative discipline.
  • This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed.
  • Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
  • Job Family Group:
  • Applications Development

Skills

  • Research, prototype, and integrate advances in agent‑based, autonomous, and generative AI technologies.
  • Domain Alignment: Ensure AI solutions are well‑aligned to banking and financial services requirements, constraints, and business outcomes.
  • For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Compensation

  • $145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Equal opportunity

  • View Citi's EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.
  • If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.

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