RQ11828 - Software Developer - Intermediate

RQ11828 - Software Developer - Intermediate

Term 66 days

Number of Positions 1

Work Experience 7-10 Years

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

Job Description

Role Overview:

The Government of Ontario is embarking on a large Data & AI transformation initiative. Core to the transformation is the enablement of the Ontario Data Platform (ODP), which is being developed as the enterprise technology ecosystem for everything Data & AI. ODP is a modern ecosystem of data solution consisting of data ingestion technologies, storage, processing and visualization as well as solutions related to data governance, quality, marketplace, etc. ODP will initially serve all internal government clusters, ministries and program areas, but also external agencies in the future. We are looking for a data scientist to support various initiatives related to the platform as well as the execution of use cases to support the needs of various businesses within the government.

Key Responsibilities:

Run and Monitor Inferences:

• Execute batch inference jobs on Databricks and other environments.
  
• Troubleshoot inference issues, log results, and escalation model anomalies.
  
• Assist with running DSPy pipelines and loading custom models/configs.
  
• Support evaluation runs using internal metrics
• Track and summarize performance metrics for inference experiments.
  
• Help prepare and clean legal text datasets for inference and evaluation.
  
• Annotate outputs to support error analysis and benchmarking.
  
• Maintain reproducible scripts/notebooks for inference runs.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Background in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI/ML (student or recent grad is good).
  
• Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
  
• Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face, or equivalent).
  
• Comfortable working with Databricks / MLflow or other cloud ML environments.
  
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills for tracking experiments.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Background in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI/ML (student or recent grad is good).
  
• Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
  
• Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face, or equivalent).
  
• Comfortable working with Databricks / MLflow or other cloud ML environments.
  
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills for tracking experiments.