Machine Learning Analyst

Fidelity Canada • Toronto, ON

11d • CA$90,000 - CA$110,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Fidelity Investments Canada is looking for a highly motivated and creative ‘Machine Learning Analyst’ to develop innovative AI/ML solutions to complex business challenges. Critical to the role’s success will be the individual’s penchant for continuous learning and a laser focus on delivering practical applications in a quickly evolving technical environment. As an ML Analyst, you will be collaborating with an interdisciplinary team that leverages large datasets using highly scalable computational resources to deliver end-to-end AI/ML based projects. You will be responsible for conducting exploratory data analysis, data pre-processing and transformation, developing ML algorithms, and assisting with deployment using both on-premise and cloud-based platforms.

Requirements

• A completed Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Software Engineering or other STEM discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• Experience with data collection, data annotation, and active learning.
• Solid theoretical grounding in core machine learning concepts and techniques.
• 2+ years of experience within a data science, artificial intelligence and/or applied machine learning position.
• 1–2 years of experience working with Snowflake, including strong SQL skills, data transformation, query optimization, and familiarity with Snowflake Cortex or other native AI/ML capabilities.
• Experience using Git for version control, including GitHub, branching, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices, including model governance, privacy, explainability, hallucination mitigation, and secure handling of enterprise data.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with diverse stakeholders in a team environment.
• Ability to adapt quickly in the face of change using excellent problem-solving skills and creativity.
• Familiarity with popular Python-based AI/ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, and associated workflows.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and transforming data across cloud data platforms and relational databases, including Snowflake and traditional platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or MySQL.
• Demonstrated proficiency with deep learning, ensemble-based methods, NLP, time series analysis, and optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with LLM application development patterns, including prompt design, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, semantic search, and evaluation of generated outputs.
• Ability to translate business problems into practical AI/ML or Generative AI solutions, while balancing technical feasibility, business value, and risk considerations.

Nice To Haves

• 1+ year of experience with cloud computing is an asset.
• 1+ year of experience building production machine learning models, and deploying them to solve inference challenges at scale is an asset.
• Strong understanding of machine learning approaches, including predictive modelling, supervised and unsupervised learning, NLP, Generative AI / Large Language Models, and model evaluation.
• AWS Certified Machine Learning and AWS Certified Data Analytics are assets.
• Investment Funds in Canada and/or Canadian Securities Course (CSI) is an asset.
• Practical experience with Generative AI / Large Language Model workflows, such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, model evaluation, or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tools.
• Experience with deployment of machine learning model pipelines using AWS, such as SageMaker.
• Familiarity with containerization of ML models, including Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Develop machine learning-based software solutions using open source and proprietary software systems.
• Conduct applied research to identify and understand different algorithms and methods for use case development.
• Collaborate effectively within agile scrum sessions alongside the Emerging Technology, IS ML Ops teams and business stakeholders to develop and implement high-impact business solutions.
• Rapid prototyping of new algorithms/approaches and conducting comparisons with existing algorithms and baselines.
• Iterate on model performance through error analysis, benchmarking, feature refinement, prompt evaluation, and comparison against baseline approaches.
• Assist the IS Infrastructure and IS ML Ops teams in designing customized ML environments as needed.
• Support projects through the documentation, monitoring and version control of models.
• Develop and evaluate Generative AI and Large Language Model solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence, summarization, classification, and conversational AI use cases.
• Work with enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake to prepare, query, transform, and analyze structured and unstructured data for AI/ML and Generative AI use cases.
• Explore and prototype solutions using Snowflake Cortex and related cloud AI services where appropriate.

Benefits

• Base Salary: A competitive annual range of $90,000 to $110,000, based on your experience and qualifications.
• Performance Bonus: Eligible for a discretionary bonus that rewards your contributions and results.
• RRSP Contribution: After 6 months of employment, we invest in your future with an RRSP contribution—no employee matching required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level