Principal AI Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal AI Engineer building AWS-based GenAI and AI/ML solutions for Sun Life’s insurance and financial-services contact centers. Driving architecture, DevOps, deployment, and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with and guide the Enterprise Architect on platform-capability roadmap solutions
  • Define and communicate the technical vision and strategy for AI/ML initiatives
  • Establish technical excellence, innovation, and squad standards
  • Mentor and develop the engineering squad
  • Design, deploy, and manage API infrastructure on AWS
  • Create and maintain technical design artifacts covering functionality, solution designs, data models, interfaces, and integrations
  • Enhance DevOps practices and tools to enforce software guardrails and automation
  • Collaborate across teams to integrate AI/ML solutions with broader platform initiatives
  • Own and evolve deployment strategy and CI/CD practices
  • Manage model component versioning across development and production environments
  • Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and industry practices
  • Provide post-production support, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field
  • At least 10 years of engineering experience
  • Extensive experience designing and deploying AI/ML architectures with GenAI models, agentic systems, RAG techniques, and production-scale patterns
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders
  • Thought leadership in AI/ML
  • Deep architectural expertise across Python, Java, and AWS services
  • Advanced expertise in AI/ML architecture patterns, model lifecycle management, and production-scale deployment strategies
  • Strong expertise in AWS services and cloud infrastructure
  • Advanced proficiency with DevOps practices, deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies at scale
  • Ability to establish technical standards for AI/ML infrastructure, security, and operational excellence
  • Proficiency in API development and management
  • Leadership skills to guide agile teams across multiple locations
  • Problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Success coaching and mentoring junior engineers in an Agile team setting

Benefits

  • Wellness programs supporting mental, physical, and financial health
  • Variety of career paths and networking opportunities
  • Hybrid work flexibility between home and office
  • Incentive plans for eligible employees, subject to individual and company performance
  • Accommodation support for persons with disabilities
  • Virtual and office work options based on business, Client, and employee needs

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$100,000 - CA$143,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudJavaPython

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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