SR. ML RESEARCH SCIENTIST - Vancouver ***Completed***

Our client is a well-funded entrepreneurial company with seasoned leadership. Their solutions combine machine learning, hardware design, and software development tools, and now need someone to help design, build, test, package, explain, or sell machine learning solutions for edge devices. They are building breakthrough ML hardware-software platforms that can enable amazing experiences at the edge; and it takes a team of brilliant, creative engineers to disrupt the status quo.

 Role Description:

We are looking for a Senior ML Research Scientist to join their Machine Learning team. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of advanced research in areas such as Deep Learning, Large-Scale Numerical Optimization, Pattern/Image Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Audio/Imaging signal processing. Strong ability to use mathematics to formulate a rigorous problem statement and to find a robust and efficient method of solution. In addition, a strong understanding of how research is turned into successful products is also required for this position. The position will also require excellent written and spoken communication skills, and a strong drive to solve problems in creative ways to disrupt the status quo in ML through principled innovation.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

·         Develop state of the art algorithms and methods that can solve real-world, large-scale AI/ML problems and contribute to the IP portfolio of the company

·         Examine and evolve existing ML algorithms/theories/methods

·         Collaborate with other teams of the organization to ensure successful commercialization, deployment, and maintenance of developed algorithms and tools

·         Stay up to date with the latest relevant research and trends and conduct critical analysis of the competitive landscape

·         Maintain detailed records of work and produce technical reports and presentations for other groups of the organization

·         Generate technical documentation and test procedures in support of produced research

 Minimum Qualifications

•         Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field with at least 8 years of experience for Master’s holders or at least 5 years of experience for PhD holders

•         Proven record of having developed state of the art algorithms, theory, and or methods in one of the areas of interest listed in the job description

•         Experience with at least one Machine Learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow

•         Strong coding skills in Python and C/C++

•         Linux and experience with CUDA are a plus

•         Good understanding of fixed-point coding and/or algorithm hardware implementation limitations

 Desired Qualifications

·         Familiarity with at least one version control system, preferably Git

·         A record of patents and/or publications

·         Demonstrated interest and passion for ML to advance computer vision, audio, NLP, IoT.

·         Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work with little supervision

·         Project management skills

·         Agile/Kanban development expertise

·         Familiarity with Atlassian Data Center applications

This is a company that offers work-life balance, a healthy culture, and competitive compensation – while developing technology that will have broad impact on the devices of the future.

 Contact: Amanda Du Toit amanda@corporate.bc.ca