Senior Applied AI Engineer
Build and maintain an internal AI agent platform (Floyd) that turns investment-research questions into structured insights using LLM APIs, vector search, and Databricks pipelines, while collaborating closely with portfolio teams.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Montreal
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
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ABOUT US
We’re one of Canada’s largest pension investors, with CAD$320.6 billion of net assets as of March 31, 2026.
We invest funds for the pension plans of the federal public service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force. Headquartered in Ottawa, PSP Investments has its principal business office in Montréal and offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Capturing and leading complex global investments requires us to work as one to seize valuable opportunities, in close collaboration with some of the world’s top companies. At PSP Investments, you’ll join a team of motivated and engaged professionals, dedicated to propelling our organization further than ever before.
ABOUT YOUR ROLE
Floyd is PSP's in-house AI platform — a custom analyst built for our investment teams. It pairs a conversational assistant with purpose-built workflows that turn complex research questions into structured, decision-ready output. Under the hood, Floyd is an agentic system that orchestrates the latest frontier models through the OpenAI, Google (Gemini) and Anthropic (Claude) APIs, routing each task to the right model and breaking big problems into smaller ones it can work through in parallel. It's already changing how investment professionals work day-to-day — and it's still early, with a lot left to build.
This role puts you at the frontier of applied AI inside an institutional investor. It's hands-on and high-agency, blending AI engineering with real product sense and close partnership with the people who use what you build. You'll own problems end to end — from a vague request on the investment floor to a reliable capability running in production — with the autonomy to decide how to get there.
You will have the chance to shape a flagship AI platform at one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, with direct impact on how investment decisions are researched, with access to frontier models and proprietary data at scale, within a high-caliber, collaborative team.
As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you’ll:
- Design and build the core of Floyd's agentic system: prompting, tool use, retrieval across unstructured and structured data, multi-model orchestration and evaluation
- Collaborate with our Data Engineers to build the ML and AI-serving pipelines behind Floyd on Databricks — our primary platform for data engineering, data science and AI serving
- Develop across the stack: the Floyd Python SDK and its Gradio- and React-based front ends
- Keep Floyd production-grade — reliability, latency, cost and monitoring — within the security and data-governance standards of a financial institution
- Lean on AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) to move fast from prototype to production and help the team get more out of them