Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Causal & Decision Systems

CSC Generation is building closed-loop decision systems that use machine learning to operate consumer businesses more intelligently.
We are starting with pricing and expanding into areas such as inventory, purchasing, promotions, marketing, and assortment.
 The Role
You will help build systems that:
estimate causal response + quantify uncertainty → choose actions → generate useful information → observe outcomes → update policies → evaluate challengers → deploy within guardrails
We want to answer questions such as:
What happens because we change a price, rather than simply what happens next?
How should uncertainty affect a decision?
When should the system exploit what it knows versus experiment to learn?
Can we estimate the value of a challenger policy before fully deploying it?
How do we optimize economic outcomes while respecting inventory, margin, vendor, customer, and operational constraints?
What You’ll Work On
Depending on your background, you may work across:
causal and heterogeneous treatment-effect modeling;
uncertainty estimation and calibration;
contextual bandits, active learning, or sequential decision-making;
policy learning and constrained optimization;
counterfactual and off-policy evaluation;
experimentation and champion/challenger systems;
production ML infrastructure, monitoring, and automated deployment.
We care about selecting the right method, not using a particular framework.
What Success Looks Like
Success is not a better offline metric.
The systems you build should produce measurable economic lift in controlled experiments, generalize across businesses, learn from their own interventions, and safely automate an increasing share of real commercial decisions.
Over time, the goal is simple:
the system should become better at operating the business because it has operated the business.
 
What We’re Looking For
We care more about exceptional technical ability and judgment than matching a checklist.
Strong candidates will have experience in several of:
machine learning and statistical modeling;
causal inference and experimentation;
recommendation, advertising, pricing, marketplace, credit, or other decision systems;
bandits, reinforcement learning, optimization, or active learning;
uncertainty estimation;
counterfactual evaluation;
production ML systems;
Python, SQL, and large behavioral datasets.
Why This Role Is Different
Most ML systems learn from a dataset.
Here, the decisions made by the model influence the data the model sees next.
That creates a continuous loop:
Decision → intervention → outcome → learning → better decision
The long-term opportunity is to build that capability once and apply it across a portfolio of businesses and increasingly broad commercial decisions.
 
Application Requirement
Due to a high volume of fraudulent applications, you must share a valid LinkedIn profile URL in the application questions below to be considered. If you do not have a LinkedIn profile, you must provide a credible reason in that field and supply alternative evidence of your professional background to verify your identity.

CSC Generation is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
The CSC Generation family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact hrbenefits@cscshared.com.
 
For Ontario applicants, please note that this posting is for an existing vacancy.
 
CSC Generation will conduct an exhaustive background check including verifying dates of employment directly with your former employer.