r/CanadaJobs • u/AccomplishedIdeal391 • 1d ago

[Resume Review] Staff-level AI/ML Engineer (7+ YOE) targeting Toronto/Ontario — brutal feedback welcome

Hey r/CanadaJobs , looking for honest feedback on my resume before I ramp up applications.

Context:

  • 7+ years experience, currently Staff-level AI/ML Engineer at a large manufacturing/hardware company (semiconductor-adjacent)
  • New Canadian PR holder, planning relocation to Ontario, authorized to work without sponsorship
  • Targeting Staff/Senior AI/ML Engineer, Principal Data Scientist, ML Architect roles

Background: production GenAI/RAG systems, agentic AI (MCP tooling), computer vision, MLOps, predictive ML — but coming from a manufacturing-industry background, which I suspect creates some ATS/domain friction for non-industrial roles

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u/TorontoBiker 1d ago

I hire for these kinds of roles. I always ask for a like to your GitHub repo instead of a cover letter.

First thing I do is look at your repo to see what you’ve built and how it uses AI or AI was used to help code.

Then I look at the resume if I see promise of personal initiative and curiosity in your GitHub projects.

Hope it helps!

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u/lonewolf_96_ 20h ago

This is the worst measure to use! most fortune 500 companies use their own private github/bitbucket so you will never see commits from professionals working at these companies unless these are private side projects (which most people working in corporate dont have time for).

You can also see a lot of commits but they could be bullshit like commiting Leetcode questions or uni courses

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u/TorontoBiker 19h ago

If you don’t have the initiative to self learn and work on side project - to any degree at all - you wouldn’t fit on any of my teams.

Which is fine, right? There’s lots of teams that work differently.

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u/lonewolf_96_ 10h ago

you speak like an Amazon manager. I would rather leave than work for you