You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights.

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Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

At Sun

Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Corporate IT is looking for AI Engineer with at least 2 years of development experience. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation, implementing cloud capabilities, and building GenAI solutions.

The ideal candidate has a passion for cutting-edge technologies and a proven track record of building large-scale, complex software systems. This role will collaborate with architects, product owners, data engineers, security and governance partners, and business stakeholders to deliver AI-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, intelligent agents, automation workflows, and reusable AI platform capabilities. Champion a culture of continuous improvement, engaging change and fostering innovation within the team Create and maintain technical design artifacts that describe application functionality, solution designs, data models, interfaces,



and integrations Use and enhance our DevOps practices and tools to enforce software guardrails, increase automation, and help engineers build code faster, at a lower cost, and lower risk Stay current with industry advancements in cloud technologies, AWS services, and AI/ML Provide post-production support for deployed applications, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, and continuous improvement Collaborate effectively in an Agile environment, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and mentor junior team members.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. ~2+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 1+ years of building and operating solutions on AWS. ~ Hands-on expertise with Python, AWS Lambda, and APIs ~ Experience with developing AI bots/agents ~ Familiarity with chatbot development concepts, RAG techniques and vector databases ~ Experience with DevOps culture, tools, and best practices ~ Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to assess alternatives, risks, and benefits ~ Experience with Amazon OpenSearch Service, PostgreSQL with pgvector, or other enterprise vector-search technologies.

Experience with AWS Glue, data pipelines, PySpark, or analytics workloads.



A relevant AWS certification. The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential. As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time.

Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life’s policies and practices. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life.

A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e‑mail a request to [email protected] are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you. We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

IT - Application Development Posting End Date

📌 AI Engineer (Remote) (Toronto)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Toronto