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Position Overview

At Munich Re, you will help shape and industrialize AI and Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities that support critical decision making across insurance, risk, and reinsurance domains. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operationalizing ML solutions-working closely with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to turn advanced analytics into measurable business value.

You will contribute across the end to end ML lifecycle: from data ingestion and feature engineering, to model development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Your work will span a broad range of enterprise use cases, leveraging large scale, heterogeneous data and modern ML engineering practices to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable AI solutions.

As a trusted technical expert, you will help set engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and apply industry best practices to ensure robustness, performance, and regulatory alignment. You will also stay close to emerging trends in AI and GenAI, helping Munich Re responsibly adopt new technologies in a highly regulated, impact driven environment.

* Please note that the internal job title for this position is Senior Application Developer.

Your Role:

• Implementing end to end AI/ML and GenAI projects, from understanding business needs to data preparation, model development, deployment, and monitoring
• Designing and implementing machine learning pipelines that support high performance, reliable, scalable, and secure ML workloads
• Designing scalable ML solutions and MLOps architectures using AWS and/or Azure services, and leveraging GenAI solutions where applicable
• Collaborating with cross functional teams (Applied Science, DevOps, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Application Teams) to prepare, analyze, and operationalize data and AI/ML models
• Serving as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders and business partners on AI/ML, GenAI solutions, and cloud architectures
• Sharing knowledge and best practices through mentoring, training, publications, and the creation of reusable artifacts
• Ensuring solutions meet industry standards and supporting the advancement of enterprise AI/ML, GenAI, and cloud adoption strategies

Your Profile:  

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in cloud architecture and implementation and/or applied research
• 7+ years of experience in data, software, or machine learning engineering, with a strong understanding of distributed computing (e.g., data pipelines, distributed training and inference, ML infrastructure design)
• 3+ years of experience developing platforms for predictive modeling, NLP, and deep learning, with a proven track record of building, hosting, and deploying ML models on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure ML, Amazon SageMaker, or similar services)
• 3+ years of experience with SQL, Python, and at least one additional programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript)
• Proficiency with industry leading ML frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders
• Ability to build strong business relationships, negotiate effectively, and confidently articulate technical viewpoints
• Hands on experience with AWS and/or Azure, including a broad range of AI capabilities (e.g., NLP, IDP, RAG, MLOps)
• Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)
• Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python)
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)
• Experience with modeling and analytics tools such as R, scikit learn, Spark MLlib, MXNet, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non technical audiences
• Proven experience building ML pipelines with best practice MLOps, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model hosting, hyperparameter tuning, distributed and GPU training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining
• Experience with MLOps platforms (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) and orchestration tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory pipelines, Azure Functions, AWS Step Functions)
• Experience building applications using Generative AI technologies, including LLMs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain), and prompt engineering
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform), containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines.

About Munich Re

Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance.  By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change.  We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions.  We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.

Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry.  We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.

What Can We Offer You?

We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:

• An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
• A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days
• A great compensation package including annual company bonus
• Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day
• Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account
• Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic employer contribution, plus optional company match
• Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days
• Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees
• Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program
• Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform

Our base salary range for this role is between $133,000 and $172,000 per year, plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay. The salary estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for candidates hired in this position. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to internal equity.

This role is located in our Toronto office on 390 Bay St, and we operate in a hybrid work model. This job posting is for a new vacancy. 

We do not use AI in our recruitment process - applications are reviewed by our team to ensure a fair and personalized experience.

Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.

Munich Re is committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of employment barriers and discrimination. Accommodations will be made for qualified applicants with a disability throughout the recruitment process. If you receive a request for an interview and you have a disability which will require an accommodation to support your participation, please contact AODARequestHR@munichre.ca as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.