Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

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Company: Align Technology, Inc

Location: Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1

Description:

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Canada-CHQ-Ontario-Toronto

Reporting To: Manager, Software Engineering - Machine Learning

Description

We are looking for a Sr. ML Engineer to join a team responsible for integrating expert knowledge, statistical and machine learning models in the treatment plans. You will work in close collaboration with colleagues from a larger Treatment Planning group and with clinical experts, focusing on machine learning solutions for orthodontic problems. As a Sr. ML Engineer, you will design, implement, and train models, and implement them in robust and reliable production solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work in an agile team of developers, data engineers and SDETs, and collaborate with other development teams.
  • Interact closely with clinical experts, project managers, and product owners to understand problems, analyze specifications,
  • formalize functional requirements, and prepare and deliver technical presentations and demos.
  • Perform statistical analysis and build machine learning models, perform feature engineering.
  • Deliver models to production, monitor their quality, provide further training and incremental improvements.
  • Write technical documentation for newly implemented functionality, contribute to verification and validation activities.
  • Follow architectural, quality, and regulatory guidelines for medical device software development, demonstrate technical
  • leadership, assist and mentor other developers, and uphold high standards of trust, responsibility, and professionalism.


Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
  • Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or relevant engineering disciplines.
  • 8+ years of professional experience in machine learning, data science or data analytics roles.
  • Practical experience implementing ML solutions in production using AWS cloud stack
  • Excellent knowledge of Python, including numpy, pandas, sklearn libraries.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL.
  • Basic familiarity with C++ or C#.

Nice to haves...

  • Experience with ML in the 3D domain, agentic/RAG systems
  • Experience working in highly regulated industries (such as Banking, Financial, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Aerospace, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed systems, Spark, Sagemaker, Keras
  • Experience with Power BI / Tableau
  • Working knowledge of Git and Atlassian stack (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.)

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