Founding AI Engineering (Forward Deployed)

We are looking for a Founding AI Engineering professional to help build this capability. This is a senior hands-on role where you will build real AI products and help shape how they are built. You will work closely with client teams and lead by example through coding architecture and mentoring developers and co-ops.

This is a great fit for a builder with strong full-stack roots who has shipped AI products to production and wants to help shape a new AI engineering capability.

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto office and/or client office a minimum of 2 days per week subject to change at any time.

- Design and build production AI systems including full-stack applications agents and the services behind them.
- Set patterns and standards for building with AI including prompt context harness and loop engineering.
- Build shared tools harnesses and evaluations the team uses to move fast and stay reliable.
- Lead delivery while embedded with client teams from first idea to a product in production.
- Mentor devlopers and co-ops through code reviews pairing and clear guidance.
- Own the quality security and reliability of what the team ships.
- Work with leadership to shape the roadmap and identify the right problems to solve.
- Keep learning and bring new AI tools and ideas into the team.

- 512 years building and shipping software with recent hands-on AI work.
- Strong with Java and ; able to design front end back-end APIs and data together.
- Strong with PostgreSQL and MongoDB including design and performance.
- Experience shipping LLM or agent products to production and keeping them running.
- Experience building full-stack software daily with AI coding tools such as Cursor GitHub Copilot Antigravity or Claude Code.
- Deep knowledge of prompt engineering context engineering harness engineering and loop engineering.
- Ability to design evaluations and make AI systems safe tested and dependable.
- Experience deploying applications to the cloud such as Azure AWS or GCP.
- Ability to lead a delivery team mentor others and set technical direction.
- Clear written and spoken English; able to explain technical work to developers and business leaders.

Assets / Nice to Haves
- Background in Banking Insurance or Wealth Management.
- Experience with RAG vector databases agent frameworks and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Experience with MLOps observability and monitoring for AI systems.
- Awareness of security privacy and compliance in regulated industries.
- Experience standing up a new team practice or product from scratch.
- Speaking writing or open source work that shows thought leadership in AI.

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level geographic market experience and training and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95000$145000. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Use of the term engineering in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

• Agentic AI
• Artificial Intelligence
• Financial Services
• Full Stack Development
• Full Stack Development
• Java
• MongoDB
• Postgre SQL
• RESTful (Rest-APIs)
• Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Azure
• GitHub Copilot
• Google Cloud Platform

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