We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.
At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.
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What you’ll be doing
As a Senior AI Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in developing, deploying, and scaling AI models that drive our digital-first, customer-centric marketing vision. Your focus will be on the full lifecycle of advanced AI solutions—from ideation and model design, through rigorous validation and productionization, to ongoing monitoring and refinement. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to ensure our AI-powered Engine delivers intelligent, real-time decisioning and hyper-personalized customer experiences at scale.
At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.
How you’ll succeed
Design & Build Advanced AI Models - Lead the development of sophisticated predictive, optimization, and reinforcement learning models for real-time customer decisioning and personalization.
Productionize AI Solutions - Architect, implement, and operationalize leveraging robust ML pipelines, ensuring models are scalable, reliable, and seamlessly integrated into production systems.
End-to-End Model Lifecycle Management - Oversee model validation, deployment, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement in live environments.
Ensure AI-Driven Marketing Activation - Partner with marketing, technology, and data teams to integrate AI seamlessly into digital and direct marketing campaigns and enable customer journeys.
Drive Experimentation & Continuous Learning - Develop experimentation frameworks to measure impact, iterate, and improve AI-driven recommendations.
Strategic AI Leadership - Bridge AI and business strategy, ensuring AI/ML plays foundational role in our marketing transformation.
Who you are
You have a Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative field required, or equivalent work experience.
You have 5+ years' hands-on experience in building AI/ML models in production environment, past experience with digital marketing domain is highly preferred. Strong development skills with proficiency in Python, Spark, modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, Hugging Face) and advanced working SQL knowledge.
You demonstrate an advance understanding and background in machine learning, reinforcement learning, optimizations. Past hands-on experience with recommender systems, optimizations and uplift modeling is a plus.
You're digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends. You have hands-on experience with scalable cloud systems and cloud ML tools (Databricks, GCP, AWS), preferably with Databricks.Strong understanding of ML Ops and model deployment practices.
You are an excellent communicator and partner manager with the ability to connect AI/ML innovation with marketing objec,tives, customer engagement, and ROI optimization.
You're motivated by collective success. You know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life.
Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.
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What CIBC Offers
At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.
We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions
What you need to know
CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com
CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.
You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.
We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).
We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.
Job Location
Toronto-81 Bay, 32nd FloorEmployment Type
RegularWeekly Hours
37.5Skills
Big Data Technologies, Collaborating, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization, Feature Engineering, Generative AI, Machine Learning (ML), Model Deployment, PL/SQL (Programming Language), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language), Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Analysis, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning