
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Jumio (Montréal, Canada)
Jumio· Montréal, Canada·
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Job description
We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with strong computer vision expertise to join our Biometrics team. You'll ramp up on the biometrics domain while contributing to the design, training, and scaling of our ML systems end-to-end on AWS. The final job level for this role will be determined following the interview process.
What You’ll Do
- Design and develop computer vision models and pipelines, contributing to biometrics use cases such as face detection, quality assessment, and recognition
- Collaborate on benchmarking of models across datasets and operating conditions
- Train and optimize models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or JAX
- Contribute to end-to-end ML pipelines, from data ingestion to deployment. Help design automated pipelines (Airflow) for data ingestion and cleaning.
- Production Engineering: Optimize models for low-latency inference (quantization, distillation, TensorRT/ONNX) and support deployment on AWS.
- Collaborate with and mentor ML engineers, and contribute to technical best practices across the Computer Vision team.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience: 5+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning with a focus on Computer Vision (e.g., image classification, object detection, segmentation, image quality, generative models)
- Strong Computer Vision fundamentals
- Fairness & Ethics: Awareness of algorithmic bias and willingness to learn domain-specific fairness practices
- Strong Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python (Pillow, OpenCV, PyTorch, etc). You write clean, modular, production-ready code
- Systems Architecture: Experience designing or contributing to ML pipelines and familiarity with orchestration tools like Airflow
- Cloud Native: Experience with GPU-based training and deploying ML services on AWS
Nice to Have
- Research Publications in top computer vision venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)
- Large Scale Search: Familiarity with vector databases and ANN search
- Synthetic Data: Experience with GANs or diffusion models for data augmentation
- Mobile/Edge Experience: CoreML, LiteRT, and/or TFLite
- Familiarity with privacy, security, and compliance considerations in sensitive ML applications
Jumio Values:
IDEAL: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation
Equal Opportunities:
Jumio is a collaboration of people with different ideas, strengths, interests and cultures. We welcome applications and colleagues from all backgrounds and of all statuses.
About Jumio:
Jumio is a B2B technology company dedicated to eradicating online identity fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes to help make the internet safer. We leverage AI, biometrics, machine learning, liveness detection and automation to create solutions that are trusted by leading brands worldwide and respected by industry thought leaders.
Jumio is the leading provider of online identity verification, eKYC and AML solutions. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services, Travel, Sharing Economy, Fintech, Gaming, and others.
Applicant Data Privacy
We will only use your personal information in connection with Jumio’s application, recruitment, and hiring processes, as described in Jumio’s Applicant Privacy Notice. If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to privacy@jumio.com.
Why work at Jumio
- Mission-driven: The company's core purpose is making the internet safer — a clear, meaningful mission that resonates with employees.
- Culture values (IDEAL): Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation — woven into hiring, promotion, and daily work.
- Flexible working: Hybrid and remote options available depending on role and region; modern offices in Sunnyvale, Austria, Bangalore, Montreal, and London.
- DE&I commitment: Active DE&I working group (DISCo), membership in Fintech Equality Coalition, annual "Innovember" DE&I innovation challenge, alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG #10 on reducing inequality).
- Global, diverse team: 25+ nationalities represented in Austrian offices alone; collaborative, cross-cultural environment.
- Social responsibility: Initiatives like "Jumio Go For Good" (free product for healthcare during COVID), tree-planting referral program (6,000+ trees planted since 2020), Pride fundraising.
- Perks: Competitive healthcare, food, fitness program, commuter benefits, volunteer programs, generous time-off.
- Candidate experience: Talent team commits to responding to every applicant and providing a great candidate experience.
- Notable open roles (as of mid-2025): Data Engineer (Biometrics), Machine Learning Engineer (Biometrics/Extraction), SDE III (MLOps), Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Engineering Manager, Enterprise Account Manager, Customer Success Manager (EMEA), DWH Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Research Engineer (ML & Robotics), VP of Finance, Account Executives (APAC, EMEA, LATAM, US).