Senior Artificial Intelligence Platform Engineer & Fabrics

Working within one of the platform squads, you will build and operate components of one or more of the following:

Portal & Registry: features of the AI Registry (agents, models, tools, channels, evaluations), self-service onboarding flows, and lifecycle workflows; integrations with external registries.

Policy Engine : components of the policy-as-code infrastructure (Cedar/OPA), the compilation pipeline, GitOps-based distribution, and the policy simulation sandbox.

Observability & Audit : telemetry pipeline components, OpenTelemetry GenAI instrumentation, trace correlation, and audit-lake ingestion supporting regulator-ready evidence.

Governance & Lifecycle : certification workflow components, compliance-scoring automation, and evidence-generation tooling.

Gateway Runtime : components of the inline enforcement engine: request-time policy evaluation, routing, residency, budget/quota, and circuit breaking, built to strict latency budgets; domain-hub deployment across AWS and Azure.

Guardrails Runtime : stages of the safety pipeline (input moderation, prompt-injection defense, PII, output validation, hallucination detection, policy enforcement), including bilingual EN/FR support.

Identity Fabric : components of workload identity for AI (SPIFFE/SPIRE), token-exchange flows, trust-boundary configuration, Entra Agent ID integration, and cross-cloud token federation.

Note on scope: Two of these platforms (Identity Fabric, Policy Engine) are built with AI as the incubation context but are designed to transition to bank-wide ownership at maturity.

Own and deliver components/features within your squad's capability, design (with guidance), implement, test, ship, and help operate in production.

Participate in on-call for the services your team runs.

Build APIs, MCP Servers, integrations, and tooling through which domains, DevOps pipelines, and enterprise systems consume platform capabilities.

Write clean, well-tested, well-instrumented code; build operability in from the start (metrics, tracing, SLO-aware design).

Ensure your components produce the runtime evidence connecting AI activity to policy enforcement, identity, and lineage for model-risk and regulatory review.

Contribute to design discussions and technical decisions , applying standards and patterns set by Principal Engineers and Leads.

Mentor junior engineers and collaborate actively across the squad.

Partner day-to-day with AI Developer Experience , AI Security , and AI SDLC counterparts as needed to deliver your work.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master's an asset).

5+ years of software/platform engineering experience, including hands-on experience building and operating production services .

Experience with production operations (deployments, monitoring, incident response, on-call), ideally in a regulated industry (financial services an asset).

Hands-on depth in at least one of: API/gateway services; policy-as-code/authorization; workload identity/security; observability/telemetry; audit/data platforms.

Solid software-engineering fundamentals: clean, tested, maintainable code; API design; and an understanding of distributed-systems concepts (latency, resilience, availability).

Strong programming skills (Python and/or Go preferred; TypeScript/Java an asset) for building services, APIs, and integrations.

Working proficiency in cloud-native development on AWS and/or Azure : containers/Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation/ARM).

Practical CI/CD, GitOps, and DevSecOps experience; Git-based workflows (Bitbucket/GitHub), Jira, Confluence.

Policy/Authorization: Cedar, OPA/Rego, or comparable authorization systems.

Identity/Security: SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, OAuth/OIDC, token exchange, or federated identity.

Observability/Audit: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Dynatrace/Splunk or equivalents, immutable/audit data stores.

Gateway/Guardrails: API gateway usage/development, LLM routing/abstraction, prompt-injection/PII defenses, or AI evaluation.

Registry/Portal: service catalogues, asset registries, lifecycle/onboarding workflows.

Working knowledge of GenAI platform patterns (LLM/AI gateways, RAG, agentic patterns, embeddings, guardrails) sufficient to build supporting infrastructure.

Familiarity with AI/ML tooling (Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, SageMaker, MLflow) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) an asset.

Awareness of Responsible AI, AI/data governance, privacy, cloud security, and IAM as applied to AI workloads.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Professional an asset) / ML – Specialty

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate / Azure Solutions Architect Expert

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

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.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en .

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

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