Manulife

Associate Data Scientist

Manulife

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: TorontoCanada

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Salary

💰 CA$69,525 - CA$115,875 per year

About the role

  • Design and evaluate LLM-based applications, including RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and chat interfaces.
  • Conduct LLM red-teaming, bias detection, and alignment testing using comparative and statistical analysis techniques.
  • Build and maintain automated evaluation frameworks for LLM outputs using embedding-based and prompt-based methods.
  • Develop interactive dashboards and visualizations using Power BI to communicate insights and model performance to stakeholders.
  • Integrate and test LLMs using OpenAI APIs, Databricks, and Azure AI Services.
  • Collaborate on the development of fine-tuning and pre-training pipelines for domain-specific use cases.
  • Work with Vector Databases (e.g., FAISS, MongoDB, Neo4j) to support RAG and semantic search capabilities.
  • Participate in code reviews, documentation, and agile development cycles with the engineering team.

Requirements

  • Minimum 1 year of professional (non-academic) experience in data science, machine learning, or AI-related roles.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience with JavaScript is a plus.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, AI, or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM evaluation, bias detection, or alignment research (preferred).
  • Proficiency in data visualization tools, especially Power BI (experience with Tableau or similar tools is a bonus).
  • Familiarity with LangChain, RAG, Ollama, LLM fine-tuning, and embedding-based analysis.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
  • Knowledge of databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, and FAISS.
  • Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and a passion for building responsible AI systems.
Benefits
  • health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
  • employee/family assistance plans
  • various retirement savings plans (including pension)
  • global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
  • financial education and counseling resources
  • generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • full range of statutory leaves of absence
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLJavaScriptLLM evaluationbias detectionalignment researchembedding-based analysisRAGfine-tuningdata visualization
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingattention to detailcollaborationcommunication