What's the opportunity?

RBC Borealis is looking for a Staff Researcher in Generative AI. The role focuses on technical leadership with the goal of delivering Generative AI-based products for the financial services industry. The candidate will play a critical role in shaping and leading our Generative AI technical work, reputation, and practice. The role includes engagement with technical and business stakeholders to shape and deliver on project roadmaps. Mentorship and contributions to talent development is a core component of the role.

Your responsibilities include:

• Technical Leadership. Provide technical leadership and scientific guidance to Generative AI projects, working within and across teams;
• Research Innovation. Develop innovative machine learning approaches and novel intellectual property;
• Product Delivery. Iteratively refine and deliver machine learning concepts from proof of concept through to product delivery;
• Research Leadership. Contribute to defining our research vision, publish papers, and communicate internally and externally around machine learning research;
• Mentorship. Collaborate with team members including other researchers, engineers, and interns to grow and develop their skills in Generative AI research.

You’re our ideal candidate if you have:

• A Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field;
• Expertise in machine learning, specifically large language models (LLMs), self-supervised learning, and AI safety (fairness, interpretability, human-centric AI)
• 5 years of experience as a machine learning researcher in a product-centric environment or equivalent experience;
• A track record of mentorship including junior researchers and engineers and experienced high-performance researchers
• Experience delivering high-impact machine learning products
• Involvement across the research and development lifecycle, from prototyping to production, engaging with stakeholders to develop solutions that meet business needs;
• The ability to formulate and drive a research project independently;
• Exceptional communication skills;
• A history of high quality academic publications (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICLR, ICML etc.).

What’s in it for you?

• Become part of a team that thinks progressively and works collaboratively. We care about seeing each other reach full potential;
• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable;
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities;
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact from a local-to-global scale.

About RBC Borealis

RBC Borealis, a RBC Institute for Research, is a curiosity-driven research centre dedicated to achieving state-of-the-art in machine learning. Established in 2016, and with labs in Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo and Vancouver, we support academic collaborations and partner with world-class research centres in artificial intelligence. With a focus on ethical AI that will help communities thrive, our machine learning scientists perform fundamental and applied research in areas such as reinforcement learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and unsupervised learning to solve ground-breaking problems in diverse fields.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

RBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request

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