Top Machine Learning Jobs in Ottawa

Designs benchmarks, reinforcement learning environments, evaluation methodologies, scoring frameworks, and reproducible evaluation architectures for frontier models. Builds and ships production code, maintains data pipelines, analyzes results, and collaborates with research scientists, solutions architects, and ML engineers. The role combines independent research methodology with hands-on engineering across agentic systems, model evaluation, and RL infrastructure.

Build and improve Firefox WebCompat internal dashboards, reporting tools, and broken-site screenshot capture pipelines. The role involves creating reliable data views for triage and metrics, automating screenshot workflows, collaborating with WebCompat and QA teams, and translating reporting needs into effective tooling. Familiarity with WebCompat workflows, Bugzilla, screenshot automation, and machine learning is preferred.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Design and develop machine-learning approaches for vehicle control, including learned vehicle dynamics models, adaptive controllers, data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and simulation tooling. Integrate learned models into safety-critical closed-loop systems and validate algorithms through offline experimentation, simulation, and on-vehicle testing. Collaborate with engineers and research scientists to combine classical control with AI for scalable self-driving technologies.

Build and maintain Safari AI’s cloud infrastructure, including production services, system design, reliability, documentation, and security compliance. The role sets technical direction for the cloud stack, collaborates with engineering and operations teams, improves development processes, and delivers incremental features. Candidates should have 4–6 years of software engineering experience, public cloud expertise, and experience taking complex services from concept through production. Streaming processing and machine learning experience are advantageous.

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Lead independent validation and ongoing monitoring of complex financial and analytics models, including ALM, loss forecasting, loan transition, corporate planning, and engagement models. Identify weaknesses, communicate findings, guide remediation, and strengthen model risk governance. Partner with Finance, Quantitative Research, Growth Analytics, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance on validation, audit, regulatory, and examiner matters.

Develops communications strategy and thought leadership for cybersecurity, identity, access management, and AI topics. Responsibilities include media relations, executive communications, contributed content, event and speaking strategies, rapid response, narrative development, journalist engagement, and communications measurement. The role translates complex technical concepts into credible messaging for developer, business, and security audiences while collaborating with marketing, product, engineering, security, legal, sales, executives, and agencies.

Lead positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, channel enablement, competitive intelligence, and analyst relations for Sophos’ AI cybersecurity solutions. Translate complex technical capabilities into buyer- and partner-focused narratives, build launch assets and sales tools, and coordinate cross-functional execution across product, sales, marketing, and research teams. The role also develops customer feedback loops, competitive battlecards, and category-defining market perspectives.

Lead product strategy for consumer credit, underwriting, merchant pricing, and loan economics. Define features, specs, and metrics; partner with engineering, analytics, design, commercial, legal, and capital to launch and scale products across channels and geographies.

Design, develop, and evaluate large-scale multimodal foundation models for biological research. Build hybrid LLM and graph neural network architectures, relational foundation models, and distributed multi-GPU training systems. Apply deep learning theory to biological data, transition research prototypes into scalable production systems, publish peer-reviewed research, and mentor junior staff while collaborating across scientific and engineering teams.

Lead Arondite’s Canadian market expansion from Ottawa by developing defence and public-sector relationships, building partnerships with Canadian primes and technology organizations, qualifying commercial opportunities, and shaping go-to-market strategy. The role combines customer discovery, pipeline development, partnership structuring, pricing, proposals, negotiations, and translating market needs into product and roadmap insights. It requires representing the company with senior government, industry, and partner stakeholders while helping establish Arondite’s long-term Canadian presence.

Own strategic enterprise customer relationships, driving adoption, retention, measurable value, and expansion. Lead success reviews and executive engagements, translate supply chain challenges into solution strategies, build prototypes in Lyric Studio, train customer teams, coordinate internal stakeholders, and identify growth opportunities. The role requires deep supply chain expertise, technical fluency in modeling, planning, or AI/ML, strong executive presence, and up to 30% travel.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.

Leads commercial performance for global and regional eCommerce markets, improving revenue, margin, EBIT, conversion, AOV, demand shaping, customer experience, and retention. Partners with market leaders to diagnose performance, recommend actions, align improvement plans, govern KPI frameworks, and ensure adoption. Leads data storytellers, establishes analytical and measurement standards, develops global playbooks, and influences senior stakeholders across a global matrix organization.

Design, engineer, and optimize protein-based biosensors that convert neuronal activity into imaging signals. Build and characterize protein variants using computational design, directed evolution, combinatorial libraries, mammalian expression systems, and high-throughput assays. Collaborate with machine learning, biochemical, structural biology, and computational teams to model sequence-function relationships, develop screening methods, understand biomolecular mechanisms, and advance constructs toward in vivo applications.

Leads product strategy, roadmap, and execution for threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection capabilities. Partners with engineering, architecture, security research, executive, sales, and SOC teams to drive innovation, product launches, OKRs, portfolio prioritization, and customer security outcomes. Requires deep cybersecurity expertise and extensive senior product management experience, with strong knowledge of emerging threats, AI applications, and enterprise security products.

Own new business and account growth across hyperscalers, neoclouds, enterprises, and frontier AI labs in the Americas. Manage complex technical sales cycles, layered OEM/ODM and channel routes, capacity commitments, design-ins, pipeline forecasting, contracts, and executive relationships. Translate semiconductor performance, power, and TCO advantages into commercial outcomes while partnering with product, engineering, marketing, legal, and finance. Build a qualified pipeline through an existing customer network and represent the company at industry events.

As a Staff ML Engineer, you'll design and operate Samsara's ML platform, partnering with teams to deliver scalable ML solutions that enhance safety and efficiency in physical operations.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of ML and operations research systems powering delivery dispatch. Build pricing, quote selection, forecasting, routing, batching, fleet recommendation, LLM, optimization, evaluation, and MLOps capabilities. Translate operational constraints into reliable models and solver formulations, establish production ML standards, and mentor engineers. The role partners with Product and leadership to deliver measurable improvements in revenue, margin, utilization, conversion, and delivery reliability.

Lead Tilt’s product design function across consumer financial products. Set design vision and quality standards, manage and grow a team of six designers and one researcher, build research capabilities, influence product strategy, scale the design system, advocate for users, and partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership. Drive AI-enabled design practices and ensure product experiences deliver measurable user and business impact.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, APIs, data and inference pipelines, databases, CI/CD systems, monitoring, and Kubernetes deployments for machine learning products. Develop Python backend applications, integrate model registries and MLOps frameworks, monitor model drift and vulnerabilities, optimize Google Cloud infrastructure, and support testing, documentation, code reviews, and AI platform roadmap planning.

Design and build production agentic AI systems for enterprise clients. Develop autonomous agents using Glean, OpenAI/GPT Enterprise, and AWS or GCP. Own agent lifecycles from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and iteration. Apply tool calling, RAG, multi-step orchestration, memory, prompt engineering, structured outputs, permission-aware retrieval, and observability to create reliable, secure, maintainable enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Lead development of scalable molecular dynamics pipelines, integrating physics-based models with machine learning frameworks to enhance molecular engineering and experimentations.

Develop and implement safety framework methodologies for autonomous trucking readiness decisions. Build high-signal safety datasets across simulation and closed-course testing, establish feedback loops from road monitoring and safety events, validate safety evaluation pipelines, and create traceable safety artifacts. The role also requires cross-functional collaboration, technical mentorship, data analysis, statistical evaluation, and evidence-based safety case development for autonomous vehicles.