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About the Role
This role offers a high-impact opportunity for an experienced data scientist to ensure AI models are reliable, fair, safe, and fit for purpose before global deployment. You will provide independent challenge, oversight, and validation of AI and machine learning models, assessing performance, identifying risks, and evaluating compliance with Responsible AI principles and regulatory expectations.
Responsibilities
- Independently validate AI/ML and GenAI models, assessing design, performance, limitations, and risks.
- Conduct model testing, benchmarking, sensitivity analysis, and other validation activities.
- Evaluate model reliability, fairness, safety, explainability, and fitness for purpose.
- Provide independent challenge and feedback to developers by identifying weaknesses, limitations, assumptions, and risks, recommending remediation.
- Review model documentation, assess design and performance, and communicate findings through reports and recommendations.
- Support model inventory management, model risk operations, and AI governance processes.
- Communicate complex technical concepts and validation findings to diverse stakeholders.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of AI governance, model risk management, and Responsible AI practices.
- Mentor and support junior data scientists through technical coaching and review of validation methodologies.
Requirements
- Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in data science, AI/ML development, model validation, model risk management, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience developing, testing, validating, or overseeing AI/ML models in a production environment, including Generative AI.
- Strong critical thinking skills for challenging assumptions and assessing model risk.
- Experience interpreting model performance metrics and conducting quantitative analysis.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- AI/ML development
- Model validation
- Model risk management
- Generative AI
- Quantitative analysis
- Critical thinking
- Communication
- Documentation
- Stakeholder management
- Responsible AI concepts
- Fairness
- Explainability
- Robustness
- Transparency
- Safety
- Monitoring
- Generative AI evaluation
- LLMs
- RAG systems
- Agentic AI solutions
- AI governance
- Model risk regulatory expectations
- Validation frameworks
- Testing libraries
- Automated assurance tooling
Location
- Toronto, Ontario
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Master's degree or higher
Salary/Compensations
- $129,400.00 CAD - $179,400.00 CAD
Benefits
- Opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation.
- Customizable benefits including 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.
- Retirement savings plans (pension and 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.
About the Company
- Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.
Equal Opportunity
- Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We embrace diversity and strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve.
- We foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals.
- We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation without discrimination.
- We administer all practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.
- It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment.
- A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process.
- All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies.
- To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com.