Multimodal (Voice/Visual) AI Engineer

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#ARCisHiring

The Team

We accelerate BMO’s AI journey by building enterprise-grade, cloud-native AI solutions. Our team combines engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable, secure, and responsible solutions that power business innovation across the bank. We enable and accelerate our partners on their AI journeys across the enterprise, helping teams across BMO unlock value at scale.  We are engineers, AI practitioners, platform builders, thought leaders, multipliers, and coders. Above all, we are a global team of diverse individuals who enjoy working together to create smart, secure, and scalable solutions that make an impact across the enterprise. Our ambition is bold: deploy our capital and resources to their highest and most profitable use through a digital-first operating model, powered by data and AI-driven decisions.

About the Role

As a Multimodal (Voice/Visual) AI Engineer, you will contribute to a multi-year initiative dedicated to advancing our digital-first, AI-powered business for enhanced value and future readiness. In this pivotal role, you will help shape and deliver agentic systems by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) to orchestrate and automate business workflows, driving operational efficiency and optimizing user experiences. You will be hands-on in solution design, demonstrate engineering excellence, and provide technical leadership across high-impact capabilities, ensuring robust and scalable AI solutions for our organization.

Role Summary

We’re seeking a Multi-modal AI Engineer to build next-generation AI interfaces.  You will be the subject matter expert responsible for creating seamless interactions where users speak to a digital avatar, which then integrates with AI agents to provide real-time, intelligent responses.

• Drive the development by designing, building, and operationalizing enterprise-grade AI interfaces
• Serve as a player-coach, balancing hands-on engineering, building agent prototypes and platform components, with strategic guidance, including shaping product direction, advising on implementation best practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Initially focus on creating foundational patterns and frameworks that can be leveraged across, enabling scalability and reusability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Orchestration – design and deploy multimodal solutions using Microsoft technologies, eg. Azure OpenAI, AI Speech and AI Vision.
• Avatar development – design and implement lifelike, interactive digital personas using methodologies like neural text-to-speech, preferably with experience in Microsoft technologies, eg. Azure AI Speech Avatar.
• Speech systems – design and build robust speech-to-text pipelines, specializing in custom speech models in multiple languages and noise reduction techniques.
• System integration

Skill Requirements:

• Expert in Azure AI Studio, python, C#/.NET, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for LLMOps.
• Strong knowledge in AI Speech (Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech), Voice modeling, Speech synthesis markup language, Azure AI Speech Avatar and LLM integration.
• Knowledge in Unity/ Unreal integration with Azure or Azure-hosted NVIDIA Audio2Face a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft certifications on Azure AI Engineer.
• 5-7 years of AI software engineering experience.
• Experience with Semantic Kernel or LangChain for orchestration complex AI workflows.
• Proven delivery on multiple AI initiatives—comfortable shaping ambiguity into “the right questions,” crisp requirements, and practical design.

NOTE - This is a hybrid position based in Toronto, with at least two to three days per week expected to be onsite in the office.

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Note to Recruiters: BMO does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to BMO, directly or indirectly, will be considered BMO property. BMO will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.