Machine Learning Specialist

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world's best in paediatric healthcare.

SickKids is leading a transformative enterprise-wide program to deliver leading edge, data driven, individualized medicine through AI. Known as SickKids AI Service, or SKAI Service, our team delivers end-to-end machine learning solutions to high impact clinical and operational challenges. With a keen focus on sustainable and responsible deployment, you will partner with SickKids' renowned experts to deliver world-leading solutions across all areas clinical care and hospital operations enabling us to realize SickKids's mission of becoming a leader in precision child health through applied artificial intelligence.

Here's What You'll Get to Do

• Work with some of the best clinicians, data scientists, and software engineers in the world
• Facilitate the development of a program centered on machine learning with an initial focus on data from electronic health records
• Train, develop, and validate machine learning algorithms on hospital data
• Build end-to-end data pipelines for machine learning models with strong quality control checks and bias assessment
• Rapidly prototype models for exploratory analysis and assess project viability
• Generate and test working hypotheses
• Provide technical support for program management and business development activities including proposal writing and solution development
• Own and manage knowledge sharing within a community
• Develop and support training and development opportunities for SickKids staff who want more opportunities to use machine learning

Here's What You'll Need

• Candidate should have a background in computer science (machine learning) with a strong understanding of statistics and scientific research with one or both of the below:
• BSc in Computer Science or relevant fields with focus on machine learning, plus a minimum of 3-5 years of experience
• Masters in data science or equivalent with focus on machine learning, plus a minimum of 1-2 years of experience
• Experience developing and implementing algorithms for the processing of large datasets
• Excellent project and time management skills and a strong attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across a large institution
• Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent writing skills to help with development of grants and papers
• Proficiency in Python and shell scripting
• Ability to work independently and in a diverse team environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated creativity and latitude in problem solving, including the ability to prioritize and execute multiple competing tasks
• Demonstrated commitment and actions in advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion objectives

This will make you extra competitive

• Hands on experience cleaning data and training models for clinical or biomedical data sets, especially Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Imaging data
• Experience deploying ML models into real-world systems
• MLflow experience for training, validation and deployment and experience tracking.
• Knowledge of medicine or biology
• History of publishing papers and contributing to scientific research

Here's What You'll Love

• This position is eligible for employee benefits coverage including but not limited to; health, dental and life insurance. The full benefits package will be discussed at the time of offer
• A focus on employee wellness with our new Staff Health and Well-being Strategy. Self-care helps us support others
• A hospital that welcomes and focuses on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
• The opportunity to make an impact. Regardless of your role or professional interest, you will be making a difference at SickKids and contributing to our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World
• For more on why you'll love working at SickKids, visit our careers site

Employment type: 1-year contract with renewal option

SickKids is committed to championing equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do, fostering an intentionally inclusive and culturally safe environment that reflects the diversity of the patients, families and communities we serve. Learn more about workplace inclusion.

If you require accommodation during the application process, please reach out to our aSKHR team. SickKids can provide access and inclusion supports to eligible candidates to support their full engagement during the interview and selection process as well as to ensure candidates are able to perform their duties once successfully hired. If you are invited for an interview and require accommodation, please let us know at the time of your invitation to interview. Information received related to access, inclusion or accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

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