Principal AI Engineer - Tangerine
At Tangerine, we’re redefining banking. As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head‑on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration.
Our client‑obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award‑winning service. Beyond banking, we’re committed to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization. We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition – where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work.
Are you ready to disrupt the status quo? Do you crave challenges that push boundaries? If you’re a high performer looking to accelerate your career and reimagine the banking landscape, this is your moment.
Let’s shape the future of banking together!
Is this role right for you?- Strategy & Responsible AI Governance – Work with the business to define and implement a strategy for trustworthy, personalized natural language and agentic interfaces — embedding fairness, transparency, and accountability from design through deployment
- Act as lead engineering partner to translate business requirements into responsible architectural patterns and best practices for agentic AI development, balancing innovation with risk and ethical guardrails
- Partner with Data, security, risk, legal, and engineering teams to embed AI‑driven resiliency, observability, bias detection, and threat modeling into architecture and governance standards
- Champion model risk management practices (e.g., SR 11‑7), regulatory alignment, and readiness for emerging AI regulation across the agentic AI portfolio
- Architecting a Responsible Agentic Development Platform and Practice
- Work as part of a team defining and delivering the strategy, technical components, and guardrail patterns for a responsible agentic AI ecosystem
- Design and implement secure, resilient, and compliant AI platforms that integrate with existing enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with risk, ethics, fairness, and regulatory frameworks
- Build on knowledge of event‑driven architecture, message queues, and distributed systems to build resilient, auditable, and scalable agentic workflows in a secure and compliant manner. – Drive search and retrieval architecture, including vector‑based search systems, indexing strategies, and relevance optimization, with attention to provenance, grounding, and hallucination mitigation
- Design and embed responsible AI controls – guardrails, content and prompt safety, policy enforcement, explainability, and audit trails – directly into the platform
- Manage and iterate on new platform capabilities while balancing the needs of key projects, delivering maintainable, scalable, testable, and easy‑to‑refactor solutions
- Work hands‑on and de‑risk the critical parts of our complex projects & Evaluation pipelines. The role will be deeply involved in coding, reviewing, red‑teaming, and optimizing AI solutions
- Mentor and Drive a Responsible Engineering Culture
- Inspire and mentor teams across architecture and engineering disciplines, cultivating a culture of innovation, responsibility, and trust in AI adoption
- Drive next‑generation testing, evaluation, red‑teaming, and observability practices for dynamic orchestration of user journeys
- Establish responsible AI review and evaluation practices – fairness testing, bias audits, safety evaluations, and ongoing monitoring – as a standard part of the delivery lifecycle
- Champion a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning within the team. When something breaks, you're not satisfied with a workaround. You dig until you understand why, and you bring learning and long‑term solutions back to the…
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