Canada's largest retailer's digital team responsible for building and operating online businesses in grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces.

Loblaw Digital, the digital arm of Canada's largest retailer, is seeking an Engineering Manager for Machine Learning to join their AdTech team in downtown Toronto. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on machine learning expertise, focusing on building cutting-edge advertising technology solutions.

The position offers an opportunity to lead and mentor a team of talented ML engineers while working on impactful projects that leverage machine learning for ad targeting, personalization, and campaign performance optimization. You'll be working with modern technologies including Google Cloud Platform, TensorFlow, BigQuery, and Dataflow.

The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in both software engineering and machine learning, with demonstrated experience in building and deploying ML models in production environments. You'll need to balance technical expertise with leadership skills, as you'll be responsible for both technical direction and team management.

What makes this role unique is its position at the intersection of retail, e-commerce, and advertising technology. You'll be working on solutions that directly impact how Canadians shop and interact with one of the country's largest retail brands. The company emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, making it an ideal environment for someone passionate about both technology leadership and machine learning advancement.

The role offers the opportunity to work with some of the best digital minds in the industry, backed by world-class technologies. Loblaw Digital maintains a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, welcoming varied perspectives and experiences to strengthen their culture and drive innovation in the e-commerce space.

Lead machine learning engineering team at Loblaw Digital, developing cutting-edge AdTech solutions and managing ML infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning - Ad Tech

Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada's largest and most successful retailer.

At Loblaw Digital, we're transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces. As a Machine Learning Engineer, Search, you'll play a pivotal role in advancing our eCommerce platform by designing, developing, and implementing sophisticated machine learning models and algorithms. You'll enhance customer experiences across our digital interfaces and contribute to setting new benchmarks in retail through innovative applications of AI and ML technologies.

Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and implementing ML models to solve complex business challenges
- Collaborating with senior engineers and cross-functional teams
- Working with large datasets to identify trends and insights
- Optimizing ML models for scalability and performance
- Staying updated on AI/ML advancements
- Engaging in continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Assisting in code reviews and technical design sessions
- Troubleshooting ML models and data pipelines
- Communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Creating and maintaining documentation for ML models and processes

We're looking for candidates with:
- 3-5 years of software development experience focusing on machine learning
- Proficiency in ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn
- Skills in Python, Java, or similar languages
- Experience in data handling and pipeline development
- Knowledge of AI technologies, including Gen AI, LLMs, and semantic search
- Understanding of security architecture and data privacy standards
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Enthusiasm for teamwork and continuous innovation

At Loblaw Digital, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an accessible environment for our colleagues, candidates, and customers.

Join Loblaw Digital as a Machine Learning Engineer to develop innovative AI solutions for Canada's largest retailer's eCommerce platform.

Machine Learning Engineer, Search

At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experiences, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we're up for the challenge. Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada's largest and most successful retailer. Based in downtown Toronto, we are an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and collaborative team working towards transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces, and we're only just getting started!

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our team, you will use an abundance of data from the Loblaw enterprise to build machine learning solutions. Your team will collaborate with business stakeholders and engineers within Loblaw Digital to deliver models to production that help in driving our Ecommerce business including Search, Recommendations, Media and Supply Chain optimization. You will design experiments to measure your success with KPIs that include adoption, conversion & retention. You will use data every single day to uncover meaningful insights that inform your experimentation strategy and ultimately, your product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, robust, and efficient cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including Vertex AI, BigTable, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer.
- Develop automation and orchestration of ML pipelines, integrating data ingestion, feature engineering, training, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and build solutions that improve platform usability, scalability, and the overall development experience.
- Optimize data processing pipelines and cloud resources to ensure low-latency, cost-effective operation.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and failover strategies to ensure platform reliability.
- Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in cloud engineering, data engineering, and machine learning.

Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure and/or data engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services such as Vertex AI, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, etc.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, and SQL.
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow (Composer).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for continuous integration and deployment.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. We're able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce. You will get to work with some of the best digital minds and will have the support of world-class technologies to craft products our customers will love!

Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Loblaw Digital's Retail Media Platform, building ML solutions for eCommerce optimization.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Retail Media Platform

At Loblaw Digital, we're transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search, you'll lead the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge machine learning models and algorithms, including integration with LLMs and other GenAI tools. You'll be responsible for enhancing customer experiences and driving business growth, directly impacting millions of Canadians.

Your role involves:
- Leading advanced ML model development and deployment
- Mentoring junior engineers and providing technical leadership
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate ML solutions
- Working with large datasets to drive decision-making
- Implementing and optimizing ML models for high availability and performance
- Staying current with AI/ML advancements and applying them to improve systems
- Conducting code reviews and participating in technical design sessions
- Troubleshooting ML models and data pipelines
- Communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Developing documentation for ML models and processes
- Providing strategic input into project planning

Join us in shaping the future of retail and make a significant, lasting impact on Canadians' shopping experiences.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search at Loblaw Digital: Lead ML innovation for Canada's largest retailer, enhancing eCommerce experiences.

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Canada's largest retailer's digital team responsible for building and operating online businesses in grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces.