Lead Agentic AI Engineer

RBC • Minneapolis, MN

31d • $100,000 - $170,000

About The Position

The Agent Lead advances Financial Advisor productivity through agentic AI workflows, connecting business problems with intelligent automation. This is a high-ambiguity, rapid-experimentation role focused on defining how vendor, enterprise, and internally developed agents coexist and interoperate within a governed ecosystem. It is a product-minded builder role that shapes, validates, and scales reusable agentic patterns across Wealth Management.

The role partners with Financial Advisors, field leadership, and business stakeholders to identify high-value workflow opportunities and determine when AI is appropriate compared with deterministic automation. It leads rapid proof-of-concept development, owns workflows from use-case definition through validated solution patterns, establishes agent design practices, and aligns solutions with enterprise frameworks, standards, and governance. The position also manages and develops Context Engineers and Prompt Engineers, and travels to branches and field locations to observe workflows, validate usability, and support adoption.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of total engineering experience, including 2–3 or more years specifically building agentic or LLM systems beyond prototypes.
• Hands-on experience with RAG architecture, including chunking tradeoffs, retrieval failures, and evaluation.
• Experience building or extending tool integration layers that connect LLM agents to external systems.
• Strong Python backend skills, including FastAPI, async programming, Pydantic, and streaming responses.
• Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions, including multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and tool-using agents.
• Strong understanding of agent frameworks, architectures, memory models, tool integration, and event-driven agents.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a builder and product-owner hybrid, with sound judgment about when to use AI and when not to.
• Experience designing workflow-driven automation and working across business, engineering, and enterprise governance functions.
• Leadership experience managing technical talent and excellent stakeholder engagement skills for side-of-desk collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Wealth Management or Financial Services, particularly with advisor workflows.
• Familiarity with CRM-based agent platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce and with event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of AI risk, model governance, explainability frameworks, and human-centered design.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Financial Advisors, field leadership, and business stakeholders to identify high-value agentic workflow opportunities and assess whether AI or deterministic automation is appropriate.
• Lead rapid proof-of-concept development and design multi-agent interactions across vendor agents, enterprise agents, and native or internal agents.
• Act as Product Owner for agentic workflows, shaping use cases, defining success metrics, validating solution patterns, and driving iteration based on advisor feedback and usage telemetry.
• Establish reusable agent design patterns for prompting, orchestration, memory models, tool usage, and escalation paths in collaboration with AI Engineering.
• Align agentic solutions with approved enterprise frameworks, standards, and governance requirements in collaboration with enterprise stakeholders, architecture, and platform teams.
• Manage and develop Context Engineers and Prompt Engineers, establishing best practices in context design, retrieval strategies, and agent behavior tuning.
• Travel to branches and field locations to observe advisor workflows, identify friction points, validate usability, and drive adoption of agentic solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and flexible benefits.
• 401(k) program with company-matching contributions.
• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Coaching and management opportunities to support development.
• Opportunity to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work and build close relationships with clients.
• Potential to earn additional compensation through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program, subject to business performance targets and individual goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed