Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Lead Machine Learning Engineer – AI Innovation Teams

Location: Toronto

Fitch Ratings is seeking a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join our new AI Innovation teams in Toronto—a bold initiative building the AI-powered future of financial analysis. We're not fine-tuning existing models or optimizing yesterday's algorithms. We're architecting the next generation: sophisticated agentic AI systems, intelligent automation that thinks, and ML capabilities that will redefine how credit analysis happens and how global financial markets consume insights.

This is AI's moment at Fitch, and we're moving decisively. We have executive sponsorship, significant investment, and we're establishing Toronto as our AI innovation center. As a Lead ML Engineer, you'll be a technical champion driving this transformation—building breakthrough ML systems that others will study, mentoring engineers who will become tomorrow's AI leaders, and establishing patterns that will scale acro...