Senior Machine Learning Engineer

at  Bits In Glass

Do you want to work for an award-winning professional services company? Bits In Glass was voted Canada’s Great Place to Work for three years in a row and the Denver Business Journal Best Places to Work for two years in a row. Bits In Glass has also won numerous Partner of the Year awards from the vendors we partner with.
Bits In Glass, or “BIG,” is a great place for energetic IT Professionals to work and grow. As a high-growth firm, we have ample opportunities for advancement, and our company culture is based on getting the job done while having fun!
BIG is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team. You will work closely with the Chief Innovation Officer to build the AI practice, processes and team. You will have the proven ability to develop innovative solutions in artificial intelligence to resolve concrete and complex business challenges. You will have an inquisitive and strategic mindset, always looking for the new but with an applied focus of solving business problems with technology solutions using an Agile approach. You will be customer oriented and a team player to keep up with BIG’s long tradition of being a team of highly experienced professionals that customers love to work with because they feel like one of their own.
In this role, you will get the unique chance to help build a new line of business that is fully complementary to a thriving and growing digital transformation global boutique services business. It is an exciting opportunity to both roll up your sleeves with hands-on work and to lead.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc, MSc or PhD in Computing Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or related
• 5 years of experience in development of machine learning solutions, including NLP, Computer Vision, Generative AI, Time Series
• Extensive knowledge and experience with relevant program languages and tools like Python, PyTorch and Scikit-learn
• Eager to research and learn new topics and technologies
• Experience with hyperscaler environments, like Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google GCP, etc. and the associated ML/AI suites
• Knowledge and experience with Databricks would be an asset
• Working knowledge of Vector Databases, Retrieval Augmented Generation and Large Language Models is an asset
  *This is a remote role which may require up to 35% travel within Canada and the United States.
  BIG offers a competitive total compensation plan, including an annual bonus, healthcare benefits and a professional development budget.
  BIG is a high-growth Global Cloud Consulting firm with offices in the US, Canada, UK, and India. We are a team of experienced technology professionals who help organizations of all sizes automate their business by leveraging modern platforms such as Appian, MuleSoft, Pega, and a host of RPA technologies.

• Work with the Chief Innovation Officer to build the AI practice, processes and team
• Translate business needs into AI/ML solutions
• Build AI/ML models using accepted best practices
• Work with other practice specialists to develop comprehensive solutions as part of complex business workflows
• Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in AI/ML
• Work with data engineers and assist in data acquisition, preparation and cleansing from various sources
• Assess model performance and reliability and make tradeoffs against quality metrics
• Prepare reports and presentations on results
• Prepare data visualisation front-ends as required to communicate insights from the model
• Use a software engineering approach to build AI/ML solutions that can be effectively operationalized and run in a reliable manner to serve the needs of critical business workflows