Principal AI Engineer, Agentic Models and Data Platforms

RBC

📍 calgary, ab, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted June 19, 2026

Job Description

Job Description

Drive the development of scalable, high-performance data pipelines within the Enterprise Data Platforms for enabling seamless access to and analysis of data across the organization. This role requires a strong technical background, strategic mindset, and excellent leadership capabilities.

What Will You Do?

  • Architect and implement agentic systems, including tools 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, includin...