Principal AI Engineer, Agentic Models and Data Platforms
RBC — CALGARY, Alberta, Canada
Posted 2026-08-11
Job Description The Principal position will be responsible for leading and delivering key AI/Agentic initiatives under the AI Reuse Development Portfolio. The ideal candidate would leverage their extensive software engineering experience in designing and implementing of such initiatives from the ground up, while also successfully navigating through the org through active stakeholder engagement. What will you do? Architect and implement agentic systems, including tool using agents, workflow orchestrators, and multi step reasoning pipelines that reliably execute business tasks. Design and deliver Retrieval Augmented Generation solutions, including document ingestion, chunking, indexing, vector search, hybrid search, reranking, and grounding strategies over curated data products. Build evaluation harnesses and quality gates, including offline test sets, golden datasets, regression suites, and metrics for factuality, safety, latency, cost, and business outcomes. Implement observability for AI systems, including tracing across prompts and tool calls, telemetry, drift detection, and runbooks for production operations Lead the build of batch and real time data pipelines, including inbound