Lead Data Scientist

JobgetherData Science, AI

Based in CanadaContractLead

Salary100 CAD per hour

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Job Details

Languages: English
Experience: 5+ years
Required Skills: AWSPostgreSQLPythonMachine LearningData engineeringTerraformLLMComputer Vision

Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
5+ years of relevant professional experience, including shipping production models or data systems.
Expert-level Python engineering skills for production services.
Strong applied computer vision expertise (transformers, CNNs, transfer learning, fine-tuning).
Advanced PostgreSQL expertise, including schema design, query optimization, and pgvector.
Experience building lexical and semantic retrieval systems and LLM application engineering.
Strong AWS experience (SageMaker, GPU instances, Fargate, RDS, S3).
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams.
Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
Ability to travel up to approximately 10% of the time.

Own the data science components of client engagements end to end, from architecture and evaluation design through production deployment and monitoring.
Collaborate with clients, sales, and engineers to define technical strategies and Statements of Work.
Build and deploy reliable data, retrieval, machine learning, and AI pipelines into production environments.
Develop applied computer vision solutions, including model training, evaluation, transfer learning, and inference.
Architect retrieval and RAG systems using lexical and semantic approaches, embeddings, and hybrid retrieval.
Present technical results, limitations, and recommendations to non-technical clients.
Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for DataOps and MLOps.

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