Principal AI/ML Scientist

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About the role

  • Principal AI/ML Scientist at TELUS leveraging advanced AI solutions to enhance business outcomes. Collaborating on predictive models and influencing strategic decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the iterative development, validation, and deployment of AI/ML models across the organization, ensuring continuous improvement and scalability
  • Drive the development and deployment of Generative AI applications, tools, and frameworks that solve critical business challenges
  • Collaborate on end-to-end automation efforts required to bring machine learning models to production, ensuring smooth deployment and operationalization
  • Work with both structured and unstructured data to design, develop, and deploy innovative predictive models, metrics, and dashboards that deliver actionable insights
  • Visualize and report findings creatively through various formats (e.g., dashboards, interactive reports) to ensure insights are easily understood and actionable for stakeholders at all levels
  • Influence strategic decision-making and drive the adoption of a data-driven mindset across the organization by solving business challenges and uncovering new opportunities
  • Develop re-usable code and solutions to accelerate future goals and deliver results faster and more reliably
  • Support the evolution of Data science and AI products by influencing product roadmap through prioritizing features to meet business needs, recommending latest industry research, tools and best practices
  • Build and maintain strong engagement with key stakeholders, understanding their business needs and priorities, and presenting AI/ML initiatives to VP-level executives and beyond
  • Serve as a functional leader of AI/ML across the company, providing technical leadership for the overall AI/ML program and collaborating with broader business units to scale AI/ML solutions
  • Establish best practices for ML model deployment and production, ensuring models are scalable, reliable, and optimized for long-term success
  • Represent the company as a thought leader in the AI/ML space, presenting at conferences, publishing papers, and engaging with external forums to build TELUS's reputation as a global leader in data science and AI
  • Coach and mentor a growing team of data scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, and identifying future leaders within the organization

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in machine learning, AI, and data analysis including deployment of solutions in business workflows
  • Strong expertise in Python and experience with data science libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy)
  • Solid background in machine learning algorithms, including regression, classification, clustering, time series analysis, Reinforcement learning and optimization
  • Experience building and deploying GenAI applications and workflows
  • Proficiency in SQL and distributed computing
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Expertise in machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, and Keras
  • Strong understanding of software and AI development lifecycles, with experience in DevOps and MLOps practices
  • Understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git) for collaborative development
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences effectively
  • A fast-moving, agile approach to removing roadblocks and delivering results quickly

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures
  • Minimum 3 weeks of vacation
  • Flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
  • Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both, based on the role's requirements
  • Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
  • Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
  • Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills
  • And much more …

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$128,000 - CA$238,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKerasNumpyPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

Location requirements

OnsiteTorontoCanada

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