Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As a software developer in the accelerated discovery for climate and sustainability you will be supporting our mission to tackle and understand climate challenges using AI and data driven approaches. As such you will be involved in the design, training, validation and deployment of AI models in general as well as Foundation Models in particular to understand the data and dynamics that govern our natural environment. As part of a larger team, your responsibilities will span the whole range of skills required for such projects: Assembling, understanding and processing data, designing models, running experiments, scaling models and optimizing training performance. In addition you will be discussing the work with external and internal stakeholders.
Key responsibilities:
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Collaborate with the rest of the team to assemble and understand data, design and train models, experiment and test hypotheses, validate results.
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Work with external and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and drive adoption.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Advanced knowledge of the python AI stack. In particular, python, numpy, pytorch
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Experience running AI experiments at scale on distributed systems.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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Experience with several of the following: Non-language foundation models, reinforcement learning, optimization algorithms for gradient descent, distributed training.
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Experience with several of the following software packages: xarray, GDAL, pytorch-lightning
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Hold or be eligible for Canadian government security clearance (Enhanced Reliability).
About Business UnitResearch is the organic growth engine of and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for , our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.
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Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
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