Advisory and technology for interest rate and FX derivatives. GlobalCapital's 2022 "Risk Advisory Firm of the Year."
Applied AI Engineer
Location
Canada
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$110K - $150K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Applied AI Engineer
Derivative Path
• Build and ship LLM-powered features across the DerivativeEDGE platform, working directly with domain experts to translate complex financial workflows into reliable AI capabilities. • Design and implement agentic workflows that can reason, act, and recover gracefully across multi-step processes in a production environment. • Own the data engineering layer that feeds AI systems: pipelines, retrieval architectures, context design, and data quality. • Move fluidly between experimentation and production. You will prototype quickly, evaluate honestly, and know when something is ready to ship. • Contribute to the AI Lab's broader technical direction, including evaluations, tooling, MLOps practices, and the patterns the team builds on. • Depending on where projects take you, work may also touch NLP, model fine-tuning, synthetic data, or reinforcement learning.
Job Requirements
- Building with LLMs: prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, agents, or inference pipelines
- Data engineering: designing and building pipelines that feed real workflows
- ML or data science work, especially in complex or data-constrained environments
- Working knowledge of Python and common AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain, or similar)
- MLOps or production AI experience: getting models out of notebooks and into the real world
- Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Experience with reinforcement learning or financial derivatives is a bonus, not a baseline.
Benefits
- Competitive bonus, base salary, and equity compensation
- 23 days of PTO
- Fully remote
- RRSP contribution at 3%
- Competitive health benefits
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