Russell Tobin &

- Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

Job Title: Senior Software Developer Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite) Duration: 152 Business Days with Possible Extension Client: Public Sector Pay Rate: $80 - $90/hr [CAD] Description: Client is embarking on a large Data &

- AI transformation initiative. Core to the transformation is the enablement of the Ontario Data Platform (ODP), which is being developed as the enterprise technology ecosystem for everything Data &
- AI. ODP is a modern ecosystem of data solution consisting of data ingestion technologies, storage, processing and visualization as well as solutions related to data governance, quality, marketplace, etc. ODP will initially serve all internal government clusters, ministries and program areas, but also external agencies in the future. We are looking for a data scientist to support various initiatives related to the platform as well as the execution of use cases to support the needs of various businesses within the government.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements Run and Monitor Inferences o Execute batch inference jobs on Databricks and other environments. o Troubleshoot inference issues, log results, and escalate model anomalies.



Pipeline &

- Evaluation Support o Assist with running DSPy pipelines and loading custom models/configs. o Support evaluation runs using internal metrics o Track and summarize performance metrics for inference experiments. Data Handling &
- Experimentation o Help prepare and clean legal text datasets for inference and evaluation. o Annotate outputs to support error analysis and benchmarking. o Maintain reproducible scripts/notebooks for inference runs.

Evaluation Criteria: Technical Skills - 50% LLM frameworks - 25% Databricks/MLflow - 25% Required Skills: Background in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI/ML (student or recent grad is valuable). Familiarity with Python and libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, or PyTorch. Exposure to LLM frameworks (DSPy, LangChain, Hugging Face, or equivalent).

Comfortable working with Databricks / MLflow or other cloud ML environments. Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills for tracking experiments. If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

📌 Senior Software Developer (Toronto)
🏢 Russell Tobin
📍 Toronto