SandboxAQ - Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Generation Engine
Requirements
• BS in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent field of study • 8+ years of postgraduate experience in software development • Experience developing highly-available, performant, scalable ML systems, including large-scale data processing pipelines. • Strong expertise in Python (including the ML stack: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, NumPy, Pandas) • Long, successful history of driving the full ML lifecycle: from initial data exploration and hypothesis testing to architecture, model training, evaluation, and production deployment. • Deep proficiency in MLOps and software best practices, including CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking (e.g., Weights & Biases, MLflow), automated testing, and version control for both code and datasets. • MS or PhD in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience • Financial simulation or technical experience, risk simulation • Equivalent experience includes tech leadership in a complex space, driving technical design and execution cross-collaboratively across multiple teams and organizations • Experience with scalable software development on cloud computing platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS)
Responsibilities
• Design, construct, and manage robust data pipelines for the training, validation, and continuous retraining of Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and agentic frameworks. • Develop, implement, and rigorously test novel ML models and algorithms, defining appropriate metrics to ensure model performance aligns with high-level product objectives. • Lead the effort in cleaning, transforming, and engineering features from complex and large-scale datasets to optimize LQM performance and predictive accuracy. • Conduct deep analysis of model behavior, performance, and failure modes, tuning hyper-parameters and optimizing model architecture for efficiency, speed, and accuracy in a production context. • Collaborate closely with AI researchers, product managers, and SWEs to translate high-level business objectives into actionable ML development and deployment roadmaps. • Champion and enforce exceptional engineering standards for code quality, system efficiency, and security in a prototyping environment • Drive technical execution with high autonomy, making critical design and implementation decisions independently
Benefits
• CAN Tier 1CA$172K – CA$258K • CAN Tier 2CA$146.2K – CA$219.3K • At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location. • With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us. • We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:For the US: • For the US: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Wash D.C., Boston • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Portland, Boulder, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, LA • Tier 2: • Tier 3: Everywhere else in the US • Tier 3: • For the UK: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of London, Cambridge, Oxford • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in the UK • Tier 2: • For Canada: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Toronto & Vancouver • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in Canada • Tier 2: • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please Note: To ensure that candidates select the most relevant jobs for their skills, we have set up limits to the number of times candidates can apply. The following limits apply to all roles at SandboxAQ: • Candidates may not apply more than 5 times in any 60 days for any job • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 30 days if not presented with an offer • or drag and drop here • We're genuinely interested in your personal take here. While we appreciate AI for its efficiency, your authentic voice matters most to us. Please share your thoughts in your own words—two to four sentences is perfect. Our team personally reads and thoughtfully considers every response. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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