Senior Data Scientist

GlobalRelay; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Data Scientist, where your expertise in machine learning will help shape innovative AI solutions. Collaborate with talented professionals in a vibrant environment that fosters creativity and teamwork. You'll tackle exciting challenges in big data, applying models to vast electronic communication archives while enhancing your skills in machine translation, NLP, and generative AI. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact while mentoring others and driving continuous improvement in processes and architecture. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is for you!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience solving machine learning problems.
• Strong experience with large datasets in enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy various machine learning models with data scientists and developers.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

Bash

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

BSc in STEM or Linguistics

MSc in STEM or Linguistics

PhD in STEM or Linguistics

Tools

PyTorch

Sklearn

TensorFlow

TensorRT

Kubernetes

Job description

Your role:

As a Senior Data Scientist you will be building artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for Global Relay’s customers. Our solutions are developed by small, focused agile teams of data scientist and developers. You will be applying a wide variety of models to very large electronic communication archives in order to classify and understand communication content. You'll have the opportunity to work in machine translation, transcription, natural language processing, LLMs (large language models), and/or generative AI. You also get to tackle interesting and engaging problems related to scalability and high availability in big data environments.

This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best data scientist in Vancouver and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking andcollaboration.

Your job:

• Work closely with other data scientists and developers in building and deploying various machine learning models
• Execute all steps in the data science process from understanding business requirements to deploying models
• Produce reports detailing model performance
• Take initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues
• Participate in design review, code review, sprint planning, and other Agile artifacts
• Collaborate with Product Management on user story generation and refinement
• Contribute to knowledge sharing activities with colleagues
• Mentor junior and intermediate data scientist via pairing and reviews
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes

About you:

• 5+ years of experience with solving machine learning problems
• BSc in a STEM or Linguistics subject or equivalent work experience
• Experience working with very large data sets in an enterprise-wide application environment
• Experience with Python and Bash
• Experience with common machine learning libraries such as: PyTorch, Sklearn, TensorFlow, TensorRT and others
• Experience mentoring junior and intermediate data scientists
• Strong organizational and communication skills

Nice-to-haves:

• MSc in a STEM or Linguistics subject (considered 1 additional year of experience)
• PhD in a STEM or Linguistics subject (considered 2 additional year of experience)
• Data collection and cleaning experience
• Data engineering skills
• Experience with:
  • Acoustic or language models for speech recognition
  • Natural language processing models
  • Large language models
  • Kubernetes and micro services
  • Working in an agile development environment