Advisor, Agentic AI and Generative AI

Desjardins • Montreal, QC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence Department is responsible for implementing Desjardins Group’s AI initiatives, promoting AI best practices, developing expertise in emerging AI approaches and technologies and contributing to the organization’s growth and development in this field. As an advisor in Agentic AI and Generative AI, you work primarily in Desjardins’s incubator and innovation lab in artificial intelligence. You contribute to exploring, testing and validating new AI approaches, practices and technologies to inform technological decisions, develop the target architecture and accelerate the deployment of responsible, scalable and large-scale AI solutions. Based on issues and Desjardins’s concrete needs, you carry out applied experimentation aimed at generating reusable learning. This work helps identify the most promising approaches, the best practices, as well as the technologies, frameworks, standards and tools best suited to maximize the value of AI initiatives. Success in this role depends primarily on your ability to transform testing results into concrete recommendations, reusable benchmarks and proven practices that accelerate the development of Desjardins’s AI capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• A minimum of four years of relevant experience
• Experience with memory, context and knowledge management and information retrieval concepts for AI systems
• Experience with AI frameworks for agent orchestration and multi-agent systems, such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel or equivalents
• Experience with evaluation, validation and observability approaches for AI systems, including harnesses, benchmarks and performance monitoring mechanisms
• Experience in the design or implementation of AI agent systems or multi-agent systems
• Demonstrated experience transforming testing results into concrete recommendations, AI best practices and reusable assets
• Experience publishing technical articles, blog posts, guides or technical content
• Experience contributing to open source projects or technical communities
• Knowledge of French is required

Nice To Haves

• Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Responsibilities

• Identify best practices, AI frameworks and AI standards to maximize the value of Desjardins’s AI initiatives.
• Experiment with AI agent architectures, multi-agent systems, as well as memory, context and knowledge management approaches to understand their benefits, limitations and conditions for success.
• Evaluate protocols and AI frameworks, platforms and system evaluation approaches, including harnesses and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), to guide AI technology choices and the evolution of the target architecture for AI.
• Conduct applied experimentation to validate different AI approaches and recommend the most promising AI technologies for the organization.
• Transform learning into recommendations, guides, accelerators, AI frameworks and reusable assets for the implementation teams.
• Produce and distribute articles, guides, presentations and other specialized content to promote knowledge sharing and Desjardins’s growth and development in artificial intelligence.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance including telemedicine
• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior