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What makes us Qlik?

Qlik delivers the best in data, analytics, and AI technology, to help enterprises around the world drive value from their data. Our leading, AI-powered platform enables users to uncover insights that lead to better business decisions, faster.

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 13 years in a row, Qlik is a values-driven organization, and following its acquisition of Talend, now serves over 45,000 customers in 100 countries worldwide. Read on to see what we're looking for right now!

The Junior Machine Learning Engineer Role

Are you passionate about shaping the future of AI in the data and analytics domain? As a Junior ML Engineer at Qlik, you'll be a key contributor to our mission of empowering organizations to implement and adopt AI responsibly. Pioneer innovative AI products, enhancing our customers' ability to extract insights from unstructured data. Be at the forefront of developing semantic search capabilities, translating natural language into analytic queries, and advancing AI's problem-solving abilities.

What makes this role interesting?

• In this role, you'll play a crucial part in driving Qlik's AI vision strategy.
• Collaborate with a dynamic R&D organization and a growing development team to design, develop, and maintain a cutting-edge set of AI products.
• Your work will directly impact the footprint of Qlik's AI offerings, contributing to our strategic investment in AI.
• Join a deeply passionate team working on next-generation technologies, tackling challenging software development projects, and unlocking new use cases and hidden insights.

Here's how you'll be making an impact:

• Design, develop, and maintain AI products addressing diverse use cases, from predictive to generative and classification.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and domain experts to implement user-friendly AI solutions.
• Work closely with product design teams to deliver critical functionalities supporting our AI vision.
• Evaluate new technologies to enhance the performance, maintainability, and reliability of machine learning systems.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and security.

We're looking for a teammate with:

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field, with a passion for keeping up on the latest in AI trends, including the below tech and what is coming next.
• Minimum of 1 year in a similar role building production-quality AI/ML software; coupled with 3+ years of experience in large-scale data and distributed computing environments and the development of end-to end ML pipelines.
• Skill with Python, Golang, Java, C++, as well as ML libraries and frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Familiarity with foundational models like Llama, Falcon, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Mistral, etc; as well as ML workflow orchestration frameworks (e.g., MLFlow, Airflow, KubeFlow).
• Cloud provider experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Expertise in working with unstructured data sources, including RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs, grounding, prompt engineering, chain-of-thought, pre-training, fine-tuning; this includes SQL programming and SQL/NOSQL databases like MongoDB and ElasticSearch
• Knowledge of ML/GenAI platforms (e.g., Sagemaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Studio), as well as Deep Learning and Neural Network Architectures.

The location for this role is:

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Join us at Qlik and define the future of AI - your opportunity to make an impact is now!

More about Qlik and who we are:

Find out more about life at Qlik on social: Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X/Twitter, and to see all other opportunities to join us + our values, check out our Careers Page.

What else do we offer?

• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra "change the world" day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $110,000 CAD - $132,000 CAD per year. Final compensation offered by Qlik will be based on factors such as the candidate's location, job-related skills, education, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

Qlik offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes: flexible paid vacation, paid company holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits (including vision, dental, prescription drug, and medical coverage), RRSP plan participation, and mental and emotional well-being benefits.

Eligibility requirements for benefits will be controlled by applicable Qlik plan documents and policies.

Qlik is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Qlik via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Qlik. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Qlik as a result of the referral or through other means.

Qlik is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to fostering a workplace that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. For United States applicants and employees, go to the US Department of Labor's website to review the Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, including the "Know Your Rights" and "Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination" posters.

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