Saris AI
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Toronto +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Location
- Toronto
San Francisco - Experience
- 8+ years in ML/AI engineering, including time as a technical lead or manager.
About the job
Lead Saris AI’s machine learning function and develop production-grade agentic AI systems for banking workflows.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and standards for the ML/AI function; build and mentor the team.
- Architect multimodal agentic systems and define evaluation frameworks, datasets, and performance metrics.
- Productionize ML systems for reliability, scalability, and compliance.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of ML/AI engineering experience, including time as a technical lead or manager.
- Track record of leading ML initiatives from problem definition through production deployment.
- Deep experience with LLMs and/or agentic systems, and strong ML fundamentals including deep learning, transformers, and model evaluation.
- Experience scaling production ML systems, including monitoring, iteration, and reliability.
Nice to have
- Experience with agentic systems, orchestration layers, or long-context reasoning systems.
- Experience across data, modeling, infrastructure, and APIs; open-source and closed LLMs, fine-tuning, or RAG.
Tools
LLMs, deep learning, transformers, RAG
AI focus
Lead development and evaluation of multimodal, agentic AI systems for real-world banking workflows, including productionization and ongoing quality improvement.
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