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Data Scientist, ML

Toronto, ON · On-site · Contract

Rate

CAD $70–$75/hr

Duration

5 months

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Required skills

  • Python
  • Databricks
  • MLflow
  • DSPy
  • LangChain
  • pandas
  • PyTorch
  • Azure

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Run and Monitor Inferences
  • Execute batch inference jobs on Databricks and other environments.
  • Troubleshoot inference issues, log results, and escalate model anomalies.
  • Pipeline & Evaluation Support
  • Assist with running DSPy pipelines and loading custom models/configs.
  • Support evaluation runs using internal metrics
  • Track and summarize performance metrics for inference experiments.
  • Data Handling & Experimentation
  • Help prepare and clean legal text datasets for inference and evaluation.
  • Annotate outputs to support error analysis and benchmarking.
  • Maintain reproducible scripts/notebooks for inference runs.

Qualifications

  • Background in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI/ML (student or recent grad is good).
  • Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
  • Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face, or equivalent).
  • Comfortable working with Databricks / MLflow or other cloud ML environments.
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills for tracking experiments.

Evaluation

  • Technical Skills
  • LLM frameworks
  • Databricks/MLflow

Must Have

  • Must have experience with Azure data tools - azure, databricks, MLflow, python
  • Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face, or equivalent).
  • Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.

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