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MUST HAVE experience coding multi-agent AI assets, hands on software development with a passion for AI Agents. The role is Hybrid ONLY working 2 days / week in office (Chicago or New Jersey only).

The Team

We accelerate BMO's AI journey by buildingenterprise-grade, cloud-native AI solutions. Our team combines engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable, secure, and responsible solutions that power business innovation across the bank. We enable and accelerate our partners on their AI journeys across the enterprise, helping teams across BMO unlock value at scale. We are engineers, AI practitioners, platform builders, thought leaders, multipliers, and coders. Above all, we are a global team of diverse individuals who enjoy working together to create smart, secure, and scalable solutions that make an impact across the enterprise. Our ambition is bold: deploy our capital and resources to their highest and most profitable use through adigital-first operating model, powered bydata and AI-driven decisions.

About the Role

As an AI Developer, you will contribute to a multi-year initiative dedicated to advancing our digital-first, AI-powered business for enhanced value and future readiness. In this pivotal role, you will help shape and deliver agentic systems by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) to orchestrate and automate business workflows, driving operational efficiency and optimizing user experiences. You will be hands-on in solution design, demonstrate engineering excellence, and provide technical leadership across high-impact capabilities, ensuring robust and scalable AI solutions for our organization.

Role Summary

• Drive the development of the "Agent Ecosystem" by designing, building, and operationalizing enterprise-grade AI agents and the orchestration layer that seamlessly coordinates their interactions.
• Serve as a player-coach, balancing hands-on engineering, building agent prototypes and platform components, with strategic guidance, including shaping product direction, advising on implementation best practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Initially focus on creating foundational patterns and frameworks that can be leveraged across the broader agent development landscape, enabling scalability and reusability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design Agents and implement an agent orchestration layer (routing, tool-calling patterns, workflow coordination, agent registry integration, state management, and failure/fallback strategies) by leveraging your software development super-powers (Python)
• Define and apply enterprise agent patterns (standard agent templates, reusable components, and orchestration controls).
• Establish observability/monitoring for agents and orchestrations: logging, tracing, drift detection signals, agent-specific metrics, and operational dashboards.
• Integrate Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft ecosystem components (with emphasis on Azure AI capabilities and "Foundry" experience where applicable).
• Partner with leadership to clarify expected outcomes/vision and translate them into an executable build plan, architecture decisions, and delivery milestones.
• Operate and support production grade AI solutions to meet availability, reliability, and performance expectation.
• Perform routine model, prompt, and configuration updates within approved change processes.
• Embed Applied AI Evals considerations into the platform: governance hooks, auditability, risk controls, and operational readiness for agents.

Required Qualifications

• 6-7 years of AI software development experience, with at least 2 years in AI agent/multi-agent development.
• Hands-on experience across Microsoft Azure services (designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native systems). Certifications in Azure AI Engineer, python is a plus.
• Strong background in AI agent ecosystems (multi-agent patterns, orchestration concepts, agent registries, tool routing, memory/state, evaluation approaches).
• Demonstrated ability to implement monitoring/observability for AI/agent solutions (logging, tracing, metrics, and operational alerting).
• Proven delivery on multiple AI initiatives-comfortable shaping ambiguity into "the right questions," crisp requirements, and practical design.
• Financial services or wealth management experience preferred.

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The above represents BMO Financial Group's pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group's expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group's total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit:https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one - for yourself and our customers. We'll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we'll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at http://jobs.bmo.com/us/en

BMO is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics. We also consider applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

BMO is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to BMOCareers.Support@bmo.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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