We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who can bridge the gap between business strategy and real-world AI delivery.
This role is about more than building models—it’s about taking AI from idea to production, integrating it into core systems, and ensuring it delivers measurable business value. You will combine hands-on engineering expertise with practical AI implementation, helping teams adopt AI in a way that is scalable, secure and usable.
You will play a lead technical role in designing and delivering AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise.
Build and deliver AI solutions:
Design, build, test, and deploy AI-enabled applications, services, and workflows
Work with LLMs, intelligent agents, and automation frameworks to solve real business problems
Take solutions from prototype to production, ensuring they are reliable and scalable
Own technical design:
Lead architecture and design for:LLM integrations
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Agent workflows and orchestration
API and enterprise system integrations
Ensure solutions are secure, reusable, and aligned with enterprise standards
Drive engineering standards:
Define and apply reusable patterns and best practices for AI delivery
Improve how teams build, deploy, and scale AI solutions
Contribute to responsible and governed AI adoption
Support production and continuous improvement:
Ensure solutions are production-ready (testing, monitoring, observability)
Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and continuously improve systems
Optimize for performance, cost, reliability, and user experience
Partner across teams:
Work closely with product, architecture, platform, security, and business stakeholders
Translate business needs into clear technical solutions and delivery plans
Influence decisions through technical expertise, not authority
Engineering foundation:
Strong experience building scalable, distributed systems
Deep knowledge of:
APIs, microservices, and service-based architectures
Cloud-native development (Azure preferred)
CI/CD, containerization, and deployment automation
Experience with event-driven systems, data pipelines and data platforms.
AI / GenAI expertise:
Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications in production
Strong Experience with:
Prompt design and evaluation
Model limitations (hallucination, variability, context constraints)
Agent design and orchestration workflows
Tool/API integrations
RAG and knowledge grounding patterns
Delivery and operational mindset:
Experience across the full lifecycle:
Use case definition
Solution design
Integration
Deployment
Monitoring and optimization
Strong understanding of:
AI observability (quality, latency, cost) Reliability and system performance
Risk, security, and governance awareness:
Experience working in regulated environments
Strong awareness of:
Data privacy and security
AI governance and controls
Misuse prevention (incl. prompt injection risks)
Auditability and human-in-the-loop safeguards
Equitable Bank and its digital platform, EQ Bank, are dedicated to driving change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. As Canada's Challenger Bank™ and the seventh largest bank by assets, we provide outstanding personal and commercial banking experiences to customers and credit union members across Canada.
Through EQ Bank, our customers have named us one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks list since 2021.
Equitable Bank is a proud, wholly owned subsidiary of EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB), a leader in digital financial services.
Equitable Bank: www.equitablebank.ca
EQ Bank: www.eqbank.ca
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La Banque Équitable et sa plateforme numérique, Banque EQ, se consacrent à stimuler le changement dans les services bancaires canadiens pour enrichir la vie des gens. Connue comme la Banque Qui DéfieMC, et septième banque en importance au Canada en termes d’actifs, nous offrons une expérience bancaire exceptionnelle aux particuliers, aux entreprises ainsi qu’aux membres des coopératives de crédit dans tout le Canada.
Grâce à nos services, nos clients nous ont nommés au classement Forbes des meilleures banques du monde depuis 2021.
La Banque Équitable est une fière filiale en propriété exclusive d’EQB Inc. (TSX : EQB), un leader des services financiers numériques.
Banque Équitable : www.equitablebank.ca
Banque EQ : www.eqbank.ca
