Wealthsimple

Sr Data Scientist, AI Products

Wealthsimple • $120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep product sense with ability to define and measure success metrics.
  • Experience with product analytics for actionable insights.
  • Track record of translating model outputs into business results; strong communicator with cross-functional teams.
  • Proficient in designing, training, and deploying production AI models, especially with transformers and LLMs.
  • Strong understanding of AI fundamentals, including attention mechanisms and regularization techniques.
  • Familiarity with advanced AI techniques, such as fine-tuning and knowledge distillation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI product lifecycle from pain point identification to measuring impact.
  • Design and conduct rigorous experiments to validate AI features and optimize products.
  • Collaborate with PMs, designers, and engineers to align technical roadmap with business goals.
  • Build and maintain effective training pipelines and evaluation tools in a production environment.
  • Analyze user feedback to iteratively improve models for maximum impact.
  • Mentor team members and simplify complex problems to promote high-impact delivery.

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
  • Long-term group savings plan with employer match.
  • Generous vacation policy with 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days.
  • Ability to work remotely outside Canada for up to 90 days a year.
  • Supportive employee resource groups promoting diversity and inclusion.
Full Job Description
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.


🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance

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

We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

About Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is a financial services company that provides online investment management and trading services. The company's platform allows users to invest in a variety of financial products, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and offers a range of tools and resources to help users manage their investments. Wealthsimple also offers a high-interest savings account and a tax preparation service. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Learn more about Wealthsimple
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2014

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