AI Researcher in Egham

JOB AD:

• We are looking for a talented Artificial Intelligence expert to join our team and help develop state of the art technologies for TVs.
• We need enthusiastic engineers with a strong academic background and practical experience in Machine Learning. The candidate will contribute to the development and optimisation of models for embedded devices.

Role and Responsibilities

• Innovate novel AI technologies to enhance audio quality on embedded devices
• Improve the run time performance of the AI model on device, including optimising model size, latency and quality
• Have technical responsibility for one or more significant sections of the assigned project
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design
• Ensure that work packages meet requirements, pass quality standards and are integrated with other parts of the system
• Work to a professional standard, paying due regard to safety, efficiency, cost effectiveness, time scales and the needs of the Company

Skills and Qualifications Essential Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:

• A Master\’s or higher degree in Electronics, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related discipline.
• An equivalent period of industrial experience may be substitutedProven skills in compiling, deploying, profiling and optimizing latency and quality models on embedded devices (NPU and/or CPU)Excellent general AI skills, including improving quality of models using various techniques, including developing new architectures, novel training approaches.

• Experience with building training pipelines, applying new datasets and achieving timely results
• Specific experience and application of general sound enhancement technologies for voice or other audio components.
• Including but not limited to AI technologies
• Analysis and design of software modules within an embedded system including creation of demo applications to showcase AI work.
• Excellent general communication skills, including clear and concise written and verbal reporting. Proven experience with project planning
• Working in a small team, the candidate must be a team player and be flexible, and able to exhibit excellent time management
• Prior experience of innovation in AI space, finding new project domains and generating project proposals
• Individuals suitable for the position must be enthusiastic and be prepared to develop their skill set across a diverse software environment

Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:

• Publications in top ML conferences (e.g. ICML, ICCV, SysML or similar)Contribution to open source ML frameworks such as -TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, etc.Experience with knowledge distillation, computer vision algorithms, federated learning
• Knowledge of one or more interpreted languages, such as Python and/or JavaScript
• Experience of real-time and/or embedded software development in C++ (on embedded Linux) including multi-threaded programming (POSIX)Linux (or other Unix-like) programming experience, shell scriptingVersion control systems, software build environments
• Source code quality checking and analysis tools