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Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.\nAs a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.\nJob Description:\nJob Description:\nWe're looking for a highly motivated Applied Machine Learning Scientist I to join our TDI AI/ML team. This role is primarily focused on Generative AI, including LLM-based and agentic solutions, while also offering opportunities to work on predictive machine learning use cases. You'll contribute across the end-to-end AI and machine learning lifecycle, including solution design, model development, evaluation, testing, validation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You'll collaborate with business, technology, risk, governance, and implementation partners to help bring AI capabilities to life with measurable business impact.\nThis role offers an excellent opportunity to build hands-on machine learning expertise while gaining exposure to AI solution assessment, vendor model evaluation, implementation, and governance. You will work with business partners and experienced colleagues to advance the use of AI and Machine Learning at TDI while supporting the responsible adoption of both internally developed and third-party AI solutions.\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nContribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of Generative AI and predictive machine learning solutions for use cases such as customer and employee assistance, claims and underwriting support, operational automation, and risk assessment.\nSupport the evaluation, implementation, testing, monitoring, and ongoing lifecycle management of both internally developed and third-party AI/ML solutions.\nAssist in assessing vendor-provided and out-of-the-box AI models, including their capabilities, limitations, performance characteristics, implementation considerations, and governance implications.\nHelp translate well-defined business problems into analytical frameworks and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define success metrics, testing methodologies, and solution approaches.\nContribute to model evaluation, documentation, A/B testing, validation support, and monitoring to help ensure model performance, fairness, stability, and compliance with Responsible AI principles.\nCommunicate technical results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to recommendations regarding model performance, implementation, and risk.\nJOB REQUIREMENTS\nCommunication & Relationship Skills\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nComfortable collaborating with a range of business partners and stakeholders, with a willingness to develop these skills further.\nAbility to build positive working relationships across business, technology, risk, and governance functions.\nAbility to translate complex technical concepts and analytical findings into clear business language.\nStrategic Thinking & Judgment\nCreative, out-of-the-box thinker with strong conceptual and problem-solving skills.\nMotivated to constantly identify innovative ways to enhance analytical solutions and AI implementation practices.\nAbility to investigate drivers of model performance variation and identify potential implementation or monitoring concerns with guidance.\nInterest in evaluating internally developed and vendor-provided AI solutions while considering business value, performance, and governance requirements.\nTechnical Competencies\nProficiency in Python and modern machine learning frameworks and tools.\nPractical experience developing or evaluating machine learning or Generative AI solutions through professional work, internships, research, or substantial academic or personal projects.\nUnderstanding of model evaluation methodologies, experimentation, statistical testing, and performance monitoring.\nFamiliarity with structured and unstructured data, feature engineering, and model interpretability techniques.\nExposure to LLMs, agentic AI systems, and practical Generative AI applications.\nFamiliarity with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, gained through work, research, coursework, or personal projects.\nUnderstanding of stateful, multi-step agent workflows involving deterministic logic, LLM-driven reasoning, tool calling, conditional routing, memory, or human-in-the-loop controls.\nExposure to integrating LLM applications with APIs, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, vector stores, structured outputs, or external tools and data sources.\nFamiliarity with production practices for Generative AI systems, such as prompt and workflow versioning, automated evaluation, tracing, observability, guardrails, retry and fallback strategies, or latency and cost considerations.\nFamiliarity with model governance, Responsible AI principles, model validation, or model risk management practices is an asset.\nExperience with SQL, Azure Cloud, Azure ML Services, or Databricks is an asset.\nEducation & Experience\nUndergraduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.\nGraduate degree is considered an asset.\n1-3 years of relevant experience in machine learning, advanced analytics, data science, model evaluation, or related fields. Relevant internships, research, co-op placements, and substantial academic or personal projects may be considered.\nWho We Are:\nTD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.\nOur Total Rewards Package\nOur Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more\nAdditional Information:\nWe’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.\nPlease be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. 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