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Our client is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for a 6 month contract in Toronto. This is a hybrid role. From October 20, 2025, the candidate is required to work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day from home. From January 5, 2026, the candidate is required to work onsite 5 days a week fully.
Job Responsibility:
Creates machine learning models and utilizes data to train models
Focuses on analyzing data to find relations between the input and the desired output
Understands business objectives and develops models that help achieve them, along with metrics to track their progress
Designs and develops machine learning and deep learning systems
Deep Understanding of Machine Learning Concepts: Proficiency in fundamental machine learning concepts, algorithms, and techniques
Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP): Knowledge of NLP techniques and models, especially BERT and other transformer-based models, for tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and language understanding
Experience with Deep Learning Frameworks: Proficiency in deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch. Experience with implementing, training, and fine-tuning BERT models using these frameworks is crucial
Data Preprocessing Skills: Ability to perform text preprocessing, tokenization, and understanding of word embeddings
Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in Python, including experience with libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn
Model Optimization and Tuning: Skills in optimizing model performance through hyperparameter tuning and understanding of trade-offs between model complexity and performance
Understanding of Transfer Learning: Knowledge of how to leverage pre-trained models like BERT for specific tasks and adapt them to custom datasets
Experience managing available resources such as hardware, data, and personnel so that deadlines are met
Experience analyzing the machine learning algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their success probability
Experience exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world
Experience verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning
Experience supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed
Experience finding available datasets online that could be used for training
Experience defining validation strategies
Experience defining the preprocessing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset
Background in statistics and computer programming
A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience