ML Engineer
Toronto, CA
Xero
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About the team
The AI team at Xero brings together ML Engineers and Applied Scientists to build systems that power Xero's next generation of beautiful, insightful products.
The AI Products group exists to collaboratively build products that use AI and ML to reduce toil and deliver the right insight at the right time. Working within the Data & Science team, you will join a diverse, globally distributed team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and analysts who help Xero turn data into beautiful, insightful products.
ML engineers design and build the infrastructure and services that power AI products that serve millions of customers every day. They also work closely with Applied Scientists through the research and development process to create harnesses and interfaces to safely take models from research to production environments. As a Senior ML Engineer, you will lead the technical delivery of projects and design system architectures, collaborating with senior colleagues.
About the role
- Building key components of the AI research and production infrastructure and services
- Playing an important role in informing decisions around delivery timelines and risks
- Delivering tested and well documented code that solves defined engineering problems
About You
- You have 1+ years in a software engineering role, building services at scale
- Previous collaboration with scientific disciplines (statistics, ML) is a nice to have
- You are drawn to solving hard problems and understanding how things work
- You are comfortable learning new frameworks (distributed processing, ML, etc) and applying them to real problems
- You are willing to dive into the unknown, and allow new information to change your decisions
- Constant learning and growth are an important part of who you are
- You are always willing to learn from others and ask for help
What You’ll Bring With You
- Strong coding and system design skills in Python or another language used in web scale data and AI applications
- Ability to take a well-defined engineering problem and solve it in a simple and robust fashion
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for communicating technical concepts to your team
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance and dental reimbursement with vision allowances, a healthcare spending account, fertility and family forming financial support, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with shared meals, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Architecture Engineering Machine Learning Python Research Statistics
Perks/benefits: Career development Fertility benefits Flex hours Flexible spending account Flex vacation Health care Parental leave
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