NLP/LLM Specialist in Winnipeg, Manitoba

NLP/LLM Specialist – ( 250000BO )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that accomplishes operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 31,000 team members in over 450 locations worldwide are vital to making our Company stronger.

We are seeking a talented Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model (NLP/LLM) Specialist to join our dynamic enterprise ML team. As an NLP/LLM Specialist, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and optimizing NLP chatbots and agents within our common digital platform based on Azure using Databricks and OpenAI services. Your expertise in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) chains and LLM foundation models will be instrumental in driving our initiatives forward. This position offers a flexible hybrid work schedule.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design LLM application architecture for retrieval over both structure and unstructured data and smart agentic request routing for smart token usage.

• Lead the creation and deployment of chatbots and agents by leveraging Databricks and Azure vector stores and serverless endpoint capabilities.

• Contribute to the development of enterprise model governance, observability, and quality standards, leveraging tools like Databricks Unity Catalog to share such models.

• Contribute to the development of the product roadmap and vision, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and translate them into efficient, reliable, and high-quality AI solutions.

• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI technologies.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven experience with Cloud Platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Strong proficiency in Python & SQL and orchestration tools like LangChain or LlamaIndex

• Strong Proficiency with the transformer-based model architecture, training process, and performance assessment of like BERT.

• Proficiency with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers/Hugging Face is preferred.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree is preferred

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, data science, or artificial intelligence roles.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Ontario-Toronto

Other Locations : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton, Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-Manitoba-Winnipeg, Canada-Nova Scotia-Dartmouth, Canada-Saskatchewan-Regina, Canada-Ontario-Ottawa, Canada-Ontario-Markham

Organization : BC-1299 Innovation-CA Digital COE

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Jan 27, 2025, 12:49:20 PM

Req ID: 250000BO

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans