Support data and AI initiatives on the Ontario Data Platform by running and monitoring inference jobs, assisting with DSPy pipelines and model evaluations, preparing legal text datasets, annotating outputs, tracking experiment metrics, troubleshooting inference issues, and maintaining reproducible scripts and notebooks.
Description:
The Government of Ontario is embarking on a large Data &
AI transformation initiative. Core to the transformation is the enablement of
the Ontario Data Platform (ODP), which is being developed as the enterprise
technology ecosystem for everything Data & AI. ODP is a modern ecosystem of
data solution consisting of data ingestion technologies, storage, processing
and visualization as well as solutions related to data governance, quality,
marketplace, etc. ODP will initially serve all internal government clusters,
ministries and program areas, but also external agencies in the future. We are
looking for a data scientist to support various initiatives related to the
platform as well as the execution of use cases to support the needs of various
businesses within the government.
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Must Haves:
- Background in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI/ML
(student or recent grad is good).
- Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas,
scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
- Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face,
or equivalent).
- Comfortable working with Databricks / MLflow or other cloud
ML environments.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills for
tracking experiments.
Skill Set Requirements:
Key Responsibilities:
- Run and Monitor Inferences
- Execute batch inference jobs on Databricks and other
environments.
- Troubleshoot inference issues, log results, and escalate
model anomalies.
- Pipeline & Evaluation Support
- Assist with running DSPy pipelines and loading custom
models/configs.
- Support evaluation runs using internal metrics
- Track and summarize performance metrics for inference
experiments.
- Data Handling & Experimentation
- Help prepare and clean legal text datasets for inference and
evaluation.
- Annotate outputs to support error analysis and benchmarking.
- Maintain reproducible scripts/notebooks for inference runs.
Evaluation Criteria:
- Technical Skills
- LLM frameworks
- Databricks/MLflow
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