# Principal Engineer

**Company**: RBC
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer to lead the design, development, and implementation of AI-driven software development lifecycle and intelligent automation solutions.

**Technical Leadership**

- Architect and implement enterprise-scale UiPath automation and AI-driven solutions

- Define and enforce automation and SDLC development standards and best practices

- Lead complex automation, AI integration, and SDLC transformation initiatives

- Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for automation and AI solutions

- Mentor and guide senior and junior automation engineers toward technical excellence

**RPA Engineering**

- Design and develop advanced UiPath automation solutions including:

- Attended and unattended automation

- Document Understanding and Intelligent Document Processing

- Integration Service and API-based automation

- Orchestrator architecture with high availability deployments

- Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of automation platforms

- Lead complex debugging, production support, and architectural reviews

- Conduct code reviews and establish reusable frameworks

**AI Engineering**

- Design and implement AI-driven automation solutions including:

- Intelligent Document Processing

- LLM-powered automation and prompt engineering

- Conversational AI and AI agents

- ML model integration and governance

- Integrate UiPath with enterprise AI platforms and APIs

- Develop AI orchestration workflows with model monitoring and evaluation

- Implement agentic automation and advanced AI use cases

**AI-Driven SDLC**

- Architect AI/ML solutions that enhance code generation, testing, deployment, and monitoring

- Integrate AI technologies into existing SDLC workflows and tooling

- Develop roadmaps for AI-driven automation across engineering processes

- Establish governance models for AI model governance and responsible AI practices

**Architecture & Strategy**

- Define enterprise automation and AI-driven SDLC architecture and roadmap

- Evaluate new automation and AI technologies for organizational adoption

- Partner with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance teams

- Drive adoption of intelligent automation and AI capabilities across the organization

- Establish governance models for automation and AI delivery

**Mentorship & Development**

- Mentor senior and junior automation engineers

- Define development standards and reusable frameworks

- Lead technical training sessions and raise overall technical maturity

- Develop future technical leaders within the automation and AI teams

**What do you need to succeed?**

- Expert-level UiPath Studio

- UiPath Orchestrator architecture

- UiPath Document Understanding and AI Center

- UiPath Integration Service and Apps

- Reframework and advanced framework design

- Queue-based architecture and exception handling strategies

- Logging and monitoring design

- Experience integrating LLM APIs and prompt engineering

- AI workflow orchestration

- Intelligent Document Processing and NLP solutions

- Model evaluation, tuning, and governance

**What's in it for you?**

- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

- A world-class training program in financial services

- Opportunities to do challenging work

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## Skills

### Required
- UiPath Studio
- UiPath Orchestrator architecture
- UiPath Document Understanding and AI Center
- UiPath Integration Service and Apps
- Reframework and advanced framework design
- Queue-based architecture and exception handling strategies
- Logging and monitoring design
- LLM APIs and prompt engineering
- AI workflow orchestration
- Intelligent Document Processing and NLP solutions
- Model evaluation, tuning, and governance

### Nice to have
- Experience leading enterprise automation and AI programs at scale (50+ processes)
- Experience with automation Center of Excellence (CoE) models
- Experience with agentic automation and advanced AI solutions
- Contributions to open-source automation or AI/ML projects
- Experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives
- UiPath Certified Professional Automation Solution Architect Professional
- UiPath Certified Professional Advanced RPA Developer
- UiPath AI Associate or AI Professional Certification (preferred) OR equivalent recognized AI engineering certification

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