Data Scientist – AI Agents, Advanced Analytics

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About the role

  • Data Scientist developing AI agents and advanced analytics solutions for Ciena. Focused on machine learning, generative AI, and delivering business value through intelligent data-driven tools.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze complex, large-scale datasets to uncover patterns, trends, and opportunities that translate into actionable insights and measurable business value
  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain predictive models and machine learning solutions supporting business and operational use cases
  • Build AI-powered applications and AI agents leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks, and tool integration
  • Research, evaluate, and prototype emerging AI, machine learning, and agentic technologies and assess their applicability within telecom and networking environments
  • Develop solutions supporting network operations, automation, incident analysis, anomaly detection, knowledge assistance, customer support, and decision support
  • Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define use cases, translate requirements, and deliver scalable, production-ready solutions
  • Define and apply evaluation methods and performance metrics for machine learning and LLM-based systems, including quality, reliability, latency, and business impact

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or a related quantitative field
  • Proven experience in a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Scientist, or similar role
  • Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with data science and machine learning libraries
  • Experience building and deploying machine learning models in production or near-production environments
  • Practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI applications, including prompt engineering, model integration, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Solid understanding of AI agent concepts including orchestration, tool use, planning, memory, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop approaches
  • Strong foundation in data structures, software design, system architecture, and analytical problem-solving

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision plans
  • participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • company-paid holidays
  • paid sick leave
  • vacation time

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$84,200 - $134,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Python

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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