About the Role
Our Client is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design build and optimize advanced machine learning and deep learning models-primarily with NLP (BERT / Transformers) . The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise strong statistical foundations and experience developing ML solutions end-to-end from data preprocessing to model deployment and optimization.
The Machine Learning Engineer will run experiments evaluate algorithms manage data pipelines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align ML solutions with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Design develop and deploy machine learning and deep learning systems with a focus on NLP and transformer models.
Build train and fine-tune BERT and Transformer-based models for classification sentiment analysis and language understanding.
Analyze datasets explore relationships between features and outcomes and ensure ML solutions align with business goals.
Conduct ML experiments evaluate model performance and implement appropriate ML algorithms for various problem types.
Perform data preprocessing including cleaning tokenization and feature engineering (e.g. embeddings).
Manage and verify data quality ensuring clean well-structured training datasets.
Define validation strategies experiment tracking and evaluation metrics.
Optimize ML models with hyperparameter tuning monitoring performance trade-offs.
Supervise data acquisition pipelines and identify additional training data sources when required.
Leverage transfer learning adapting pre-trained transformer models to custom datasets and business use cases.
Collaborate with teams to meet project deadlines manage competing priorities and support stakeholder expectations.
Required Skills (Must-Haves) 1. Machine Learning Expertise (15%)
Strong understanding of ML fundamentals algorithms and modeling techniques.
2. NLP Skills (15%)
Hands-on experience with NLP specifically BERT and Transformer-based architectures .
3. Deep Learning Frameworks (20%)
Proficiency in TensorFlow or PyTorch .
Ability to implement train and fine-tune BERT and transformer models.
4. Data Preprocessing & Programming (30%)
Skilled in text preprocessing tokenization word embeddings.
Strong programming experience with Python NumPy Pandas Scikit-learn.
5. Model Optimization (20%)
Experience with hyperparameter tuning performance optimization and understanding model trade-offs.
6. Transfer Learning (15%)
Proficiency in leveraging pre-trained transformer models for custom tasks.
Key Skills
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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Machine Learning Engineer • Toronto, Ontario, Canada