Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple

Sr Data Scientist, AI Products

Remote (Canada) · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentData EngineeringData ScienceNLPLLMsLLMOpsA/B TestingAccessibilityProduct ManagementResearch

About the role

  • The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving.
  • Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $125 billion in assets under administration.
  • We're proud of what we've built - and we're just getting started.

Responsibilities

  • from model architecture and data pipelines to designing experiments that drive real-world impact for over 4 million Canadians.
  • Design and execute rigorous experiments (A/B tests, causal inference) to validate new AI features and drive product optimizations.
  • Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to translate business goals into a technical AI roadmap, ensuring our model development stays aligned with user needs and technical feasibility.
  • Build and maintain production-grade training pipelines and evaluation harnesses using reproducible, well-tested code.
  • you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

Requirements

  • Experience with product analytics to derive actionable insights that inform product roadmaps.
  • Proven track record of converting model outputs into business outcomes
  • Experience designing, training, and shipping production AI models, with depth in transformer architectures and LLMs.
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning (LoRA, adapters), knowledge distillation, quantization, and instruction tuning.
  • Deep product sense: define success metrics, translate vague business objectives into measurable hypotheses, and measure product impact through A/B testing and causal inference.
  • comfortable communicating technical findings to cross-functional partners (PMs, designers, engineers) to drive alignment.
  • Solid fundamentals (attention, tokenization, embeddings, regularization) and failure mode analysis.
  • Background in recommender systems, representation learning, or self-supervised learning
  • WHY WEALTHSIMPLE?
  • 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
  • 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year

Nice to have

  • production LLM application development
  • open-source contributions or publications in AI.

Compensation

  • 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year

Benefits

  • Background in recommender systems, representation learning, or self-supervised learning; production LLM application development; open-source contributions or publications in AI.

Company info

  • mentor teammates, simplify complex problems, and drive iterative, high-impact delivery.
  • The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
  • Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers.
  • We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who thrives at the intersection of AI research and product development.

This listing is sourced directly from Wealthsimple's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.