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<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-contrast="auto">CapIntel is a software platform built for wealth management enterprises to help financial advisors explain complex investment strategies to their clients. Advisors at some of the biggest banks across North America are winning trust by using CapIntel to easily compare investments and create compelling, educational presentations. Ultimately, we're focused on investors getting better service, understanding their investments, and feeling at ease knowing their future is secure.</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Since launching in 2019, CapIntel has seen rapid adoption and industry recognition, earning top placements in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Canada and Fast 500 North America in 2025, ranking us among the </span><span data-contrast="auto">fastest</span><span data-contrast="auto">-growing technology companies. To support this momentum, we’re growing our team rapidly—investing in people who drive innovation at scale to expand our impact across the North American wealth management industry.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p></div><h2 id="About-the-Role" data-local-id="26cd18725a1b" data-renderer-start-pos="88">About the Role</h2> <p data-renderer-start-pos="104" data-local-id="a89955351da5">As a Context Engineer at CapIntel, you'll sit at the intersection of AI infrastructure and engineering. You will be responsible for how large language models are integrated into our core platform and how our engineering team adopts agentic workflows. This is a hands-on, production-focused role, not a research one. You'll build the systems that make our AI features reliable, accurate, and scalable for the wealth management enterprises that depend on us.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="562" data-local-id="3b63622360df">You'll be embedded in development teams working closely with engineers, product managers, and domain experts across the organization to design and deliver LLM-powered capabilities that directly enhance the advisor and client experience. As one of the first practitioners in this discipline at CapIntel, you'll also help define what context engineering looks like here: setting patterns and practices the broader team can build on.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="994" data-local-id="87e725434086">This role is ideal for someone who thinks in systems, cares about production reliability over demo-day performance, and is energized by working in a discipline that is evolving quickly.</p> <hr> <h2 id="What-You'll-Do" data-local-id="8df028d8a87d" data-renderer-start-pos="1182">What You'll Do</h2> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1200" data-local-id="e076c7bed376">Design and implement LLM-powered features into our core application via model APIs (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI, Cohere), with a focus on reliability and production-readiness</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1373" data-local-id="85e1c0ab1f4c">Architect and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, connecting language models to internal knowledge bases, databases, and live data sources</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1536" data-local-id="a4903cf4ab89">Manage context window strategy, determining what information enters the model, when, in what format, and at what level of compression to optimise for accuracy, cost, and latency</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1717" data-local-id="8148386e4975">Design and implement agentic workflows enabling the platform to handle multi-step, autonomous tasks</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1820" data-local-id="c09ca18cd817">Build guardrail and output validation layers that constrain model behaviour and ensure AI features act within well-defined, compliant boundaries</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1968" data-local-id="3fb670c1d5ac">Develop reusable agent primitives, prompt templates, and workflow components that other engineers can build on independently</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2096" data-local-id="e788d512df73">Build evaluation frameworks to measure context effectiveness, output quality, and agent reliability in production</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2213" data-local-id="c9ff17cb20e2">Monitor deployed AI systems for failure patterns and implement mitigation strategies, feeding learnings back into continuous improvement cycles</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2360" data-local-id="09b1fa2f0583">Collaborate with Product, Product Engineering, Implementation, and Data teams to translate business requirements, and proof of concepts into production AI system specifications</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2540" data-local-id="a1c01c5eb70a">Act as an internal practitioner and resource helping upskill the broader engineering team on context engineering principles and agentic best practices</li> </ul> <hr> <h2 id="What-We're-Looking-For" data-local-id="cd807c37bdd0" data-renderer-start-pos="2695">What We're Looking For</h2> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2721" data-local-id="a8170e9c2aaa">5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years working with LLMs in a production context</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2848" data-local-id="93c829e54829">Strong experience with Python or Node and building API-integrated backend services</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2934" data-local-id="f0db7fa8b33a">Hands-on experience with an orchestration or execution framework</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3002" data-local-id="b06f453b8677">Working knowledge of RAG architecture, vector databases (e.g. Pinecone, pgVector, AWS OpenSearch), and semantic search</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3124" data-local-id="f99b6fee4dc9">Familiarity with context management techniques: summarisation, chunking, session splitting, and memory strategies</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3241" data-local-id="8f2f17f62625">Experience building or consuming REST APIs and integrating with third-party services</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3329" data-local-id="c2a679fa18fb">Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3427" data-local-id="571e561eb31e">Strong problem-solving instincts and a willingness to learn and adapt as the field evolves</li> </ul> <h2 id="Nice-to-Have" data-local-id="2e9155ce74f8" data-renderer-start-pos="3521">Nice to Have</h2> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3537" data-local-id="b2c7133c9622">Experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool-integration standards</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3627" data-local-id="6283d7dfc863">Familiarity with LLMOps practices: tracing, observability (e.g. LangSmith, Datadog), and model versioning</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3736" data-local-id="99c67e92d91d">Exposure to multi-agent architectures and orchestration patterns</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3804" data-local-id="050a56d1cc01">Knowledge of AI output validation, context safety, and governance considerations particularly relevant in regulated industries like financial services</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3958" data-local-id="91368a94d636">Familiarity with AWS or cloud-based infrastructure and containerised deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="4063" data-local-id="1fa454eaf4a8">Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical partners</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>At CapIntel, we design compensation with intention. Each role is assessed against the impact, skills, and experience it requires, and we align our pay to competitive market data so candidates know what to expect from the start.</p> <p data-start="560" data-end="705">Your final offer will reflect your experience, skillset, and location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified.</p> <p data-start="707" data-end="969">Compensation at CapIntel goes beyond base pay. Depending on the role, total rewards may include variable pay, equity, comprehensive benefits, flexible time off, and dedicated opportunities for growth and development.</p> <p data-start="1215" data-end="1325">If you’d like to understand more about our approach, we’re happy to walk through it during the hiring process.</p></div><div class="title">For roles based in or eligible to work from Ontario, the expected base salary range is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$120,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$140,000 CAD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Not sure you meet every requirement?</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We care most about mindset: your drive, curiosity and commitment to delivering great work. While experience matters, we know that careers aren’t always linear. If this role excites you and you believe you can make an impact with us, we want to hear from you.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Why you'll enjoy working here</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Learn more about life at CapIntel on our </span><a href="https://www.capintel.com/careers"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">Careers</span></span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> page, including the virtues that inspire how we work and the perks and benefits designed to support your growth and well-being. We’re a team built on trust, respect, and collaboration. This powers everything we do and creates a space to challenge and elevate each other as we work towards our shared vision. If this speaks to you, we’d be excited to have you with us.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p></div>

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