Power Factors

Climate Tech

SeniorMachineLearningEngineer

CA$125–175k ~AI est. Montreal, Quebec, Canada FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Power Factors. Skills: Machine Learning, LLMs, MLOps. Iterate architecture based on shadow validation. Collaborate with HuggingFace ecosystem”

Industry & Context.

Climate Tech
Problems you'll solve

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What They're Looking For.

Must Have

High-ownership team member, LLM fine-tuning, Data preparation, Architecture-to-business-value alignment, Curriculum strategies, Tokenization strategies, Scaling models from PoC to production

Nice to Have

Familiarity with published time-series foundation model approaches, Experience with uncertainty quantification in forecasting, Background in scaling-law estimation, Exposure to multi-modal training corpora, Renewable energy, SCADA, or industrial IoT data experience, Experience evaluating and selecting attention variants, Published research, open-source contributions, or patents in time-series modelling or foundation models, Knowledge of curriculum learning and masking strategies

What You'll Do.

Iterate architecture based on shadow validation

Collaborate with HuggingFace ecosystem

Design model registry

Implement reproducible pipelines

Align architecture to business value

Develop curriculum strategies

Develop tokenization strategies

Scale models from PoC to production

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Innovation team; Small, high-ownership team

Communication Scope

Written English; Verbal English

Full Job Description

About Power Factors Power Factors is accelerating the green energy transition by providing advanced analytics and AI insights to operators of renewable energy assets. Our SaaS platforms are used to manage over 250 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage projects globally. By driving down operational costs and increasing revenue, we are tackling one of the world's most important challenges: making renewable energy the world's leading source of power. Our vision is to create a sustainable world powered by renewable energy. Our mission is to fight climate change with code. We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Innovation team and work on our most ambitious technical initiatives to date. You will be a core member of a small, high-ownership team building and fine-tuning LLMs utilizing the unique dataset that Power Factors has access to. You will work across data preparation, architecture-to-business-value alignment, curriculum strategies, tokenization strategies, and scaling models from PoC to production grade. The Role — What You'll Do Architecture iterate based on shadow validation. Collaboration proficiency with the HuggingFace ecosystem. MLOps fluency: experiment tracking, model registry design, reproducible pipelines, and automated retraining. Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Beneficial Qualifications Familiarity with published time-series foundation model approaches (Chronos, Moirai, TimesFM, or similar) — a significant advantage. Experience with uncertainty quantification in forecasting: Gaussian, mixture, or quantile output heads. Background in scaling-law estimation for model capacity planning. Exposure to multi-modal training corpora combining continuous signals, discrete operational events, and structured metadata. Renewable energy, SCADA, or industrial IoT data experience — including an understanding of signal quality issues (sparsity, flatlines, sensor drift) in real-world deployments. Experience eva

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