Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI

At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we're up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we've created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we're only just getting started.

Why is this role important?

What you'll do

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team, focusing on the development, deployment and testing of advanced AI systems and sophisticated search agents. This role involves leveraging ML and cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) for building robust, scalable AI applications in the Retail vertical, as well as mentoring other ML developers.
 

Who You Are:

• Design, build and ship multiple components within an Agentic AI system utilizing state of the art technologies to solve business problems.

• Develop high-performance enterprise-level Machine Learning models and AI agents using Python programming, leveraging massive structured and unstructured datasets and APIs from various internal and external sources.

• Champion and lead best practices for MLE and LLMOp.

• Collaborate with front end and back end engineering teams to build and deploy ML models and agentic components in production

• Take ownership of system components, mentor other machine learning developers, and contribute to raising the technical bar within the team.

• Document and share results and findings with stakeholders in a structured manner and drive technical discussions cross functionally

Does This Sound Like You?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field alongside a strong foundation in ML algorithms, ML pipelines, and transformations, with 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable ML products.

• Software engineering proficiency in Python, SQL, and Design Patterns, with proven experience building and deploying ML solutions in microservices architecture in production.

• 2+ years experience using GCP tools in ML workflows like Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Composer and Cloud Storage.

• Proven experience in LangChain ecosystem or other Agentic frameworks, NLP, LLMs, RAGs and embedding models.

• Skilled in ML workflow automation/deployment and MLOps for seamless integration and deployment, and have supported ML products in production environments.

• Committed to code quality at every stage of the ML lifecycle, with a strong mindset in testing methodologies (unit, integration, end-to-end) and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.

How You'll Succeed: 

At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. 

We're able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce.

If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we'll get along just fine.

Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.

Apply today.

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In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing.  Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

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