Machine Learning Scientist Coop Winter 2026

2 days ago

Victoria, Canada StarFish Medical Full time

Are you interested in being a part of a team that gets to conceptualize, design, and build the world’s next-generation medical devices?
Do you want to work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers and designers who are developing innovative medical devices?If you answered

YES, please check us out.

**Location**:
Victoria, British Columbia

**Salary**:
The current hourly rate for 3rd year students is $26.70, and for 4th year students $27.91. Final rates will be confirmed later in October 2025.

**Position Profile**:
As a Machine Learning Scientist co-op, you have a track record of learning quickly, iterating and experimenting, and diving deep into multiple domains. You’ll be wearing a data scientist hat, a software engineer hat, an MLE hat, an MLOps hat, and probably a bit of a systems engineer hat, based on the varying mix of experience required to thrive in this role. The Machine Learning Scientist role reports to the Software Engineering Manager, or Software Engineering Lead and is mentored by an in-house Machine Learning Scientist.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with the Machine Learning Scientists (MLS) to manage, label and understand data
- Under the guidance of the MLS, implement generalizable frameworks and pipelines for end-to-end data processing, model development and validation, and Model deployment
- Under the guidance of the MLS, adapt, modify, and optimize ML/AI technologies at any level for the task at hand
- Communicate findings and recommendations to internal and client-side stakeholders at all levels, including non-technical audiences
- Dive into numerous medical regimes and build a deep understanding of each client’s needs
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in machine learning, AI, and healthcare technologies, and contribute share findings with the Starfish engineering team in open forums

**Qualifications (required)**:

- Experience with Python with numerical, statistical, and ML libraries
- Experience with ML techniques and architectures
- Ability to work within a team or as an individual with mínimal supervision
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Desire and drive to learn new related technologies
- Strong curiosity and troubleshooting abilities

**Qualifications (preferred)**:

- Experience in the medical device industry/ISO13485 preferred
- Proficiency with multiple programming languages
- Experience creating high performance data processing pipelines
- Experience training multiple ML architectures and modalities
- Experience training and deploying models on various platforms (cloud/consumer hardware/embedded device)

**Education and Experience Required/Desired**:

- Previous relevant co-op or research experience is desired
- Previous project experience is desired (school project or side project)
- Students in or beyond their 3rd year are desired

StarFish Medical is Canada’s leading Medical Device Design service provider with a full complement of design, development, and manufacturing services in Victoria and Toronto. We successfully partner with innovative companies (both large and small) to create breakthrough products for a number of medical specialty areas. Our work environment received Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 award recognizing best-in-class cultures that have helped enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.

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