Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Posted January 6, 2025
Calgary / Remote - Canada,

We are currently seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada and the US.

What your team does:

At Clio, we are proud to have an exceptional team dedicated to transforming the legal experience for all. Within our engineering department, our mission is to deliver outstanding solutions that empower and delight our customers. The AI team leverages cutting-edge advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI (GenAI) to develop innovative tools that streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and enable legal professionals to focus on what matters most - their clients.

A day in the life might look like:

• Develop advanced machine learning models using structured and unstructured data to improve Clio's customer's experience.
• Create LLMs based solutions to help Clio's clients save time and create efficiencies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product management, operations, and data science to identify new ML-driven features for Clio customers.
• Work in an agile environment with our team of machine learning engineers, MLOps engineering, and full stack developers across a variety of projects.

What you may have:

• Hands-on experience in model development, particularly with traditional machine learning, NLP, and transformer-based models.
• Proficiency in data manipulation, cleaning, and preprocessing for complex unstructured datasets.
• Experience working with open-source LLM foundation models and APIs for commercial LLMs, such as ChatGPT or Gemini.
• A proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment with distributed teams and customers.
• A portfolio of past projects showcasing your successes, challenges, and growth as a machine learning expert.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trust with both internal teams and external customers.
• Demonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products.
• A strong desire to continuously learn, challenge yourself, and refine your craft as a machine learning engineer.

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio's Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Dublin) to be in office min. once per week on our Anchor Day.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.

Clio is more than just a tech company - we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

We are currently seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada and the US.

What your team does:

At Clio, we are proud to have an exceptional team dedicated to transforming the legal experience for all. Within our engineering department, our mission is to deliver outstanding solutions that empower and delight our customers. The AI team leverages cutting-edge advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI (GenAI) to develop innovative tools that streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and enable legal professionals to focus on what matters most - their clients.

A day in the life might look like:

• Develop advanced machine learning models using structured and unstructured data to improve Clio's customer's experience.
• Create LLMs based solutions to help Clio's clients save time and create efficiencies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product management, operations, and data science to identify new ML-driven features for Clio customers.
• Work in an agile environment with our team of machine learning engineers, MLOps engineering, and full stack developers across a variety of projects.

What you may have:

• Hands-on experience in model development, particularly with traditional machine learning, NLP, and transformer-based models.
• Proficiency in data manipulation, cleaning, and preprocessing for complex unstructured datasets.
• Experience working with open-source LLM foundation models and APIs for commercial LLMs, such as ChatGPT or Gemini.
• A proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment with distributed teams and customers.
• A portfolio of past projects showcasing your successes, challenges, and growth as a machine learning expert.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trust with both internal teams and external customers.
• Demonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products.
• A strong desire to continuously learn, challenge yourself, and refine your craft as a machine learning engineer.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility:

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers.