Intactfc

Senior Data Scientist

Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN · Senior

No sponsorship$119k-$145kDetected 8 days ago

PythonCode ReviewGitAWSCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData ScienceNLPLLMsOKRs

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist II (NLP / LLMs) to join our dynamic team.
This role combines strong technical execution with a product mindset: understanding customer/stakeholder needs, defining success metrics, making informed trade-offs, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
The ideal candidate has deep NLP/LLM experience, thrives in ambiguity, and is comfortable operating in cloud environments (specifically AWS).

Design and deliver end-to-end AI solutions for real business problems with a product mindset and measurable impact.
Lead AI initiatives from discovery through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring, reducing risk in ambiguous problem spaces.
Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, designers, and business SMEs to build and productionize AI solutions on AWS.
Serve as a technical lead and go-to resource for the data science team, including architecture, approach, and technical quality.
Coach and mentor junior team members and lead by example in delivery and execution.
You will collaborate with our advanced data science team to design, build, deploy, and iterate on production NLP solutions powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), GenAI, and agentic AI.
Strong production experience in cloud environments, AWS preferred, including building and operating reliable NLP and LLM pipelines.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, AI, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Hands-on experience with LLMs, including API integrations, prompt engineering, evaluation methods, and agentic patterns such as planning, tool or function calling, orchestration, and guardrails.
Production proficiency with Python, Git and GitHub, and CI or CD.
This role is hybrid, with candidates required to be based in Vancouver.

understanding customer/stakeholder needs, defining success metrics, making informed trade-offs, and delivering measurable business outcomes.

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):
As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) - with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc.
The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles.
118,700 - 145,100
Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

5+ years of experience applying data science to product development, with deep focus on NLP, machine learning, and LLM-based systems.
Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers.
We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.
Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits.

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