Wealthsimple
Sr Data Scientist, AI Products
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Canada only
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$151,000 to $189,000
Location
Canada only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Data
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Canada. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote (Canada), Toronto, Canada, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Canada
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Build something people love
Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work .
The AI Products Data Science team is a full-stack, product-driven unit at the heart of Wealthsimple’s innovation. We own the end-to-end AI lifecycle: from model architecture and data pipelines to designing experiments that drive real-world impact for over 4 million Canadians.
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who thrives at the intersection of AI research and product development. You are someone who can design and scale complex models while maintaining a product manager’s mindset, constantly asking how our technology creates value for our clients. In this collaborative role, you will transform technical breakthroughs into seamless product experiences, ensuring that every model we ship moves the needle for our business.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
Lead the full AI product lifecycle: from identifying user pain points and defining KPIs to training foundation models and measuring real-world impact.
Design and execute rigorous experiments (A/B tests, causal inference) to validate new AI features and drive product optimizations.
Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to translate business goals into a technical AI roadmap, ensuring our model development stays aligned with user needs and technical feasibility.
Build and maintain production-grade training pipelines and evaluation harnesses using reproducible, well-tested code.
Analyze production feedback and user interactions to iteratively refine models and maximize value.
Foster a collaborative culture: mentor teammates, simplify complex problems, and drive iterative, high-impact delivery.
What you bring:
Deep product sense: define success metrics, translate vague business objectives into measurable hypotheses, and measure product impact through A/B testing and causal inference.
Experience with product analytics to derive actionable insights that inform product roadmaps.
Proven track record of converting model outputs into business outcomes; comfortable communicating technical findings to cross-functional partners (PMs, designers, engineers) to drive alignment.
Experience designing, training, and shipping production AI models, with depth in transformer architectures and LLMs.
Solid fundamentals (attention, tokenization, embeddings, regularization) and failure mode analysis.
Familiarity with fine-tuning (LoRA, adapters), knowledge distillation, quantization, and instruction tuning.
Bonus:
Background in recommender systems, representation learning, or self-supervised learning; production LLM application development; open-source contributions or publications in AI.
Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
Requirements
- ·Deep product sense: define success metrics, translate vague business objectives into measurable hypotheses, and measure product impact through A/B testing and causal inference.
- ·Experience with product analytics to derive actionable insights that inform product roadmaps.
- ·Proven track record of converting model outputs into business outcomes; comfortable communicating technical findings to cross-functional partners (PMs, designers, engineers) to drive alignment.
- ·Experience designing, training, and shipping production AI models, with depth in transformer architectures and LLMs.
- ·Solid fundamentals (attention, tokenization, embeddings, regularization) and failure mode analysis.
Benefits
- ·📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
- ·🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
- ·✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
- ·👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Wealthsimple, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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