Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Principal AI Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience designing distributed ML systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with GCP services, particularly Vertex AI.
  • Experience building Generative AI solutions including LLMs.
  • Proficiency with MLOps orchestration tools like AirFlow and KubeFlow.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, familiarity with Bash or JavaScript a plus.
  • Experience deploying hybrid environments across GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and optimization of ML deployment tools.
  • Define best practices for data and ML pipelines organization-wide.
  • Collaborate with engineers to automate ML application deployment.
  • Provide technical guidance on infrastructure design and monitoring.
  • Build scalable cloud and on-premise ML solutions using GCP and Vertex AI.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits.
  • Supportive leaders focused on development through coaching.
  • Opportunities to make a significant impact.
  • Dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team environment.
  • World-class training program in financial services.
  • Flexible work/life balance options.
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

We're looking for an experienced Senior Principal AI Engineer who will bring strategic leadership and deep subject-matter expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-scale AI/ML infrastructure, automation tools (MLOps and DevOps), and cloud-native AI solutions. This is a unique opportunity to lead and shape the future of machine learning infrastructure and work with a team of passionate individuals committed to bringing ML to the enterprise.

What will you do?
  • Leading the design, architecture, and optimization of machine learning deployment tools and automation systems that operate the business's data and ML applications
  • Defining and implementing best practices and standards for data and machine learning pipelines across the organization
  • Collaborating with engineers and machine learning researchers to automate code analysis, build, integration, and deployment of ML applications
  • Providing technical guidance on infrastructure design decisions and monitoring solutions
  • Building highly scalable, resilient cloud and on-premise systems for hosting machine learning systems using state-of-the-art technologies, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Vertex AI
  • Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team growth and technical excellence


What do you need to succeed?

Must have:
  • Extensive experience designing and implementing distributed ML systems at scale
  • Hands-on experience with GCP services, particularly Vertex AI for model training, deployment, and monitoring
  • Experience building and integrating Generative AI solutions, including LLMs, RAG architectures, and AI harnesses/orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex)
  • Proficiency with MLOps orchestration tools such as AirFlow, KubeFlow, Dagster, or Flyte
  • Experience with DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong programming skills in Python; familiarity with Bash or JavaScript a plus
  • Hands-on experience deploying hybrid environments across GCP, AWS, and/or Azure
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and source control


What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Big Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Science, Decision Making, Deep Learning, Machine Learning (ML), Predictive Analytics, Programming Languages, Relationship Building

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-16

Application Deadline:

2026-06-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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