Machine Learning Team Lead - Artificial Intelligence

Bloomberg L.P.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial information leader is seeking a Machine Learning Team Lead in Toronto to guide a team of research engineers and software developers in ML applications. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and collaborate closely with key stakeholders. This role demands extensive experience in building machine learning models and strong software engineering skills, alongside a degree in a related field. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models.
• Solid background in software engineering principles.
• Proven leadership experience managing globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ML engineers on applied research in ML/NLP.
• Collaborate on production machine‑learning systems.
• Design, experiment, and evaluate software systems.

Skills

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Team Leadership

NLP Techniques

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar

Job description

Machine Learning Team Lead – Artificial Intelligence

Location: Toronto

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Ref #: 10045273

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The Bloomberg Terminal connects influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology that enables our customers to make informed decisions and foster collaboration.

For over a decade, Bloomberg has been a trailblazer in financial applications of AI, machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP). The Artificial Intelligence group is responsible for driving adoption of these technologies at Bloomberg, with over 300 research engineers working collaboratively to provide clients with the best‑in‑class news, research, market data, and analytics.

The AI group contributes to Bloomberg’s flagship products such as news, research, pricing, communications platforms, search and discovery tools. We work on a variety of AI subfields, including NLP, information retrieval, time series analysis, and recommender systems.

We are looking for Machine Learning Team Leads in Toronto, who will guide and support teams of research engineers and software developers working on initiatives in query understanding and code generation. In this capacity, you will provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and manage projects from end‑to‑end. You will work hand‑in‑hand with key stakeholders across the business, and partner closely with Product, Data and our broader Code Generation organisation in NYC, to align technical objectives with business needs, drive innovative applications of cutting‑edge GenAI techniques, and ensure the successful deployment of state‑of‑the‑art models tailored for financial code generation tasks.

What’s In it for you:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Machine Learning Engineering Team Lead who will be responsible for leading a team of ML engineers that are driving applied research in ML/NLP and bringing innovative solutions to data‑driven customer‑facing products. You will lead the development and application of the state‑of‑the‑art machine learning models including leveraging cutting‑edge NLP techniques such as Large Language Models (LLMs).

You will be collaborating with subject matter experts to gain valuable insights and use their domain expertise to guide building high quality machine learning models. You will closely be working with product owners, our domain experts, data engineers and front‑end engineers to build and integrate ML solutions to our product.

We’ll trust you to:

• Participate in the development process of ML based financial products as a technical leader
• Collaborate with colleagues on production machine‑learning systems and applications
• Design, experiment, and evaluate software systems
• Write, test, and maintain production‑quality code
• Represent Bloomberg at conferences and open‑source communities
• Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross‑team projects
• Build the libraries and frameworks that support fault tolerant and testable systems

You’ll need to have:

• Extensive experience building and deploying Machine Learning models to production
• Extensive experience in software engineering
• Previous experience in leadership, managing and coaching globally distributed teams and influencing third party technology strategy
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Ability to effectively communicate, challenge and influence team members, peers, and stakeholders
• History of successfully delivering on key initiatives and driving long‑term strategic technology plans

We’d love to see:

• Demonstrated experience of building a suite of applications with extensibility in mind
• Previous experience in a team leader capacity
• An understanding and appreciation for agile development practices
• Financial domain knowledge and experience (not required)

This posting is for an open position at Bloomberg.

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