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Machine Learning Engineering, Intern

Bree· Internship & Co-ops
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Hybrid (Toronto)$50/hr - $70/hrInternPosted 8mo ago

About the role

Internship role contributing to real modelling and data problems within Bree's ML, data, and infrastructure teams. 8-month co-op term with mentorship, production-oriented learning, and scope for meaningful contributions from day one.

Responsibilities

  • Help prepare, explore, and validate data used in models and analytical workflows.
  • Support training and evaluation of models used for areas such as credit risk, fraud detection, and customer experience.
  • Build scripts, tools, and tests that make experimentation and model evaluation more repeatable.
  • Learn how model performance is monitored in production, including data quality, drift, and operational reliability.
  • Explore new approaches with mentorship, then clearly document results, tradeoffs, and next steps.

Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or related post-secondary programme, and available for the full 8-month term.
  • Strong Python foundations, plus experience working with data through coursework or projects. Familiarity with SQL, pandas, or similar tools is helpful.
  • Foundational knowledge of statistics and machine learning concepts, with coursework, research, personal projects, or competitions you can discuss.
  • Interest in tools such as PyTorch, LightGBM, or modern LLM workflows. Production ML experience is not required.
  • Curiosity, rigour, and strong communication. You enjoy investigating ambiguous problems, checking your assumptions, and learning from feedback.

Skills

Required:Machine Learning pipeline designProduction ML systemsData handling for imbalanced datasetsDeep learning / reinforcement learningCommunication
Nice to have:Feature engineering

Benefits

  • Compensation: $50-$70/hour, based on experience and interview performance
  • Offer Matching: We're open to matching competing offers
  • Perks: $250 monthly lunch stipend, bi-annual company retreat
  • Impact: Push to prod, with 10x the ownership and impact of typical roles
  • Growth: Mentorship programs and career training sessions
  • Path to Full-Time: Strong conversion opportunities for high performers
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Chime for Canada, starting with cash advances

Bree is building a challenger bank for the 11 million Canadians living paycheck to paycheck, starting with interest-free cash advances. We make money through tips and an optional, same-day express fee. By solving our customers' most urgent problem—illiquidity between paychecks —our cash advance business is a cheap, but profitable and repeatable hook that builds distribution for a broader challenger bank. This represents a $9 billion revenue opportunity in Canada.

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