Senior Staff Engineer – Agentic AI

Job Description

What's the opportunity?

We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer with strong hands-on engineering experience and a consulting mindset who will lead workstreams, drive stakeholder engagement, and deliver production-grade agentic AI solutions across RBC. This role bridges deep technical delivery with business advisory capability where you're as comfortable facilitating a discovery session with a business leader as you are writing production code for a multi-agent system.

At RBC Borealis, you'll be joining the Agentic AI Enablement team, a forward-deployed engineering force that embeds directly into strategic use cases across Lines of Business. You'll operate as a Tech Lead within squads, independently driving workstreams while partnering with Principal Engineers on broader engagement strategy. You'll work directly with business stakeholders, platform engineers, and LoB technical teams to deliver high-impact solutions and build organizational capability in agentic AI.

Your responsibilities include

Leading technical workstreams within engagements, including solution design, hands-on build, and delivery of production-grade agentic AI systems

Conducting discovery sessions with LoB stakeholders to understand business challenges, identify automation opportunities, and translate requirements into agentic AI solution specifications

Serving as Tech Lead on Light squad engagements with fractional Principal oversight, owning architecture decisions and delivery outcomes for bounded-scope solutions

Designing and implementing end-to-end agentic solutions including MCP servers, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, tool integrations, and security/compliance controls

Facilitating technical workshops and presenting solution trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders with clarity and confidence

Mentoring Staff Engineers within the pod, providing code reviews, pairing on complex problems, and supporting their professional growth

Contributing to knowledge transfer and enablement activities, including documentation, patterns, playbooks, and hands-on training for LoB engineering teams

Acting as a bidirectional bridge between LoB teams and Borealis platform engineering, surfacing capability gaps and informing platform roadmap priorities

Supporting production deployments, post-deployment optimization, and contributing reusable components back to shared platforms and repositories

Participating in community of practice activities to share learnings, identify cross-engagement synergies, and shape reference architectures

You're our ideal candidate if you have

8-12 years of combined experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or enterprise AI/ML systems

One or both of the following

Consulting/advisory depth: 3+ years in technical consulting, solutions engineering, professional services, or customer-facing delivery roles where you owned the client relationship and shaped technical approaches to business problems

Agentic AI depth: 2-4 years hands-on experience with agentic AI systems, LLMs, and modern AI/ML frameworks including architecture patterns (ReAct, Tool Use, multi-agent orchestration)

Strong software engineering fundamentals with ability to write clean, maintainable production code (Python preferred)

Demonstrated ability to sit across from a business stakeholder, ask the right questions, and translate ambiguous problems into structured technical approaches

Proficiency in (or ability to rapidly acquire) LLM-based systems including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and tool integration patterns

Experience designing or implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or similar integration frameworks

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern DevOps practices including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines

Understanding of security best practices, data governance, and compliance requirements in regulated environments

Strong facilitation, communication, and presentation skills. You can run a room, present trade-offs to executives, and write a crisp recommendation

Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and build team capability while maintaining hands-on delivery (60-70% hands-on coding expected)

Fast learner comfortable with ambiguity. You thrive in rapidly evolving technology landscapes and can get productive quickly in new domains

Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery approaches

Nice to have

Background in financial services, fintech, or other regulated industries

Experience in technology consulting, solutions engineering, or customer-facing ML/AI delivery roles

Experience leading small teams in delivery settings

Familiarity with enterprise architecture governance processes and frameworks

Experience with agentic AI evaluation frameworks, observability, and production monitoring

What's in it for you?

Join a strategic team driving RBC’s enterprise AI transformation and competitive positioning

Work on cutting-edge agentic AI technology with access to leading researchers, rich datasets, and significant computational resources

Contribute to high-visibility, high-value business initiatives across the enterprise

Leaders who support your development through mentoring and career growth opportunities

Build deep expertise in agentic AI under guidance from experienced Principal Engineers

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including competitive compensation, bonuses, flexible benefits, and stock options where applicable

About the AI Group

RBC's AI Group is the AI accelerator for RBC, with a focus on driving the shift from early-stage AI projects to scaled, client outcomes that amplify the impact of RBC's people. In addition to helping scale the biggest AI opportunities at RBC, the AI Group is responsible for advancing research into emerging use cases across generative and agentic AI, while maintaining expertise in security, responsible AI and regulatory expectations. The Business Enablement function within the AI Group partners with LOBs and Functions to set AI ambition, originate transformation opportunities, and frame programs for delivery ensuring RBC remains at the frontier of AI-enabled value creation.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.

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Job Skills

Big Data Analytics, Client Counseling, Coaching Others, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Industry Knowledge, Machine Learning (ML), Software Engineering, Software Product Design

Additional Job Details

Address

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City

Toronto

Country

Canada

Work hours/week

37.5

Employment Type

Full time

Platform

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type

Regular

Pay Type

Salaried

Posted Date

2026-07-09

Application Deadline

2026-07-31

Note : Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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