Manulife Wealth and Asset Management is seeking a motivated and dedicated AI Engineer with a focus on Investment Management Applications, data engineering, tooling, and standards development. In this key role, you will be responsible for collaborating with front office investment teams to develop AI solutions, sourcing investment market and portfolio data, developing data pipelines, prototype development of AI applications, maintaining and enhancing Python libraries, lightweight applications, and supporting architecture and scale efforts. You will also contribute to the development of tools and standards to operationalize LLM and Generative AI use-cases, ensuring seamless integration with existing MLOps practices and infrastructure.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Collaboration and Support: Work with front office analysts and portfolio managers to identify AI/ML project opportunities, develop lightweight prototypes, and implement key capabilities in a microservices framework.
• Lead data model design and implementation within the Asset Management AI group.
• Support automated data mapping, cataloging, and data quality testing prior to hand off to division data team for production
• Monitor daily data quality checks, support internal teams on reconciliation and remediation as needed.
• Standards Development: Contribute to defining and implementing effective practices and standards for MLOps processes to ensure efficient and streamlined operations.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Assist in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment processes, ensuring efficient and reliable operations.
• Industry Insights: Stay updated with industry advancements in LLM and Generative AI models, enhancing MLOps capabilities to support LLM Ops needs.
• Collaborate with the information technology group to understand, align, and inform standards and governance to support data quality in CI/CD workflows in a DevSecOps framework.
• Support near term future state projects to improve ETL, compute, storage, and hosting in Azure using tools such as Databricks, Kubernetes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics (AWS, Google Cloud Equivalents ok as well).

Required Qualifications:

• Educational Background: PhD, Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• CFA Charter or demonstrated progress
• Data engineering experience in an investment context.
• AI Experience: 1-2 years of experience in building and maintaining AI infrastructure and tooling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with investment data, including understanding of security characteristics, propagation up and down the hierarchy, and the impact of corporation actions.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining RAG pipelines and working with vector databases like MongodB/ LancedB.
• Experience developing within an agentic framework, using Langgraph, Semantic Kernel, etc.
• Proven success with ETL Development, schema management, API design, data operations, and data architecture.
• Understanding of the research process showcased by at least one publication
• Software Development: Proficiency in Python and experience with developing libraries and applications.
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Cloud and Containerization: Familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably Azure), ML development environments (Databricks), and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experiment Tracking and Monitoring: Exposure to experiment tracking tools (e.g., MLFlow) and monitoring solutions.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to various collaborators.
• Understanding of ML Lifecycle: Basic understanding of the machine learning lifecycle and standard methodologies in MLOps.
• LLM/GenAI Models: Basic understanding of LLM/GenAI models and their operational requirements.
• Databricks Ecosystem Expertise: Hands-on expertise in the Databricks ecosystem, particularly model management using Unity Catalog.
• Full Stack Engineering Exposure: Ability to build proof of concepts/demos including both front-end and back-end development.
• Adaptability: Demonstrated proficiency in quickly picking up new frameworks and libraries.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want. 
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words. 
• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see. 

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