Machine Learning Engineer in City of Westminster

We are looking for an independent, dedicated Machine Learning Engineer/Senior ML Engineer to join the Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to redefining the world of game play and live streaming via advanced R&D. VCG's mission is to design and deploy advanced neural networks and machine learning (ML) for game rendering and streaming systems of SIE that exceed the state-of-the-art in runtime efficiency, visual quality and latency.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve core generative models for graphics and video processing for a variety of applications, such as live video streaming, game rendering, etc.
• Research and prototype new methods for graphics or video enhancement, and data generation pipelines from generative models.
• Collaborate with team members on drafting publications and patent submissions.
• Participate and assist the team in core R&D work with other teams within Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Qualifications:

• PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics or a related field, or equivalent skills evidenced by work experience in the specific domain of the post.
• 3+ years of demonstrable research experience in industry or academia.
• Strong background in TensorFlow or PyTorch; Python and packages/libraries related to computer vision or graphics; evidenced by the development of advanced applications in image/video/graphics processing (minimum 3 years for ML engineer, 5 years for Senior ML engineer).
• Evidence of leading technical developments by at least 1 research publication in a top-tier conference like CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH or similar.
• Solid background in one or more of the following: Neural network architectures, evidenced by knowledge of how to formulate and test advanced loss functions in neural network design.
• Design and test of advanced convolutional, recurrent, transformer-based, diffusion-based or other neural network architectures in a task-specific manner.
• Experience in training, validation and evaluation of deep neural network models on large datasets, evidenced by experience in using Python libraries like HDF5 or similar.
• Publications in top-tier conferences and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, conferences like IEEE CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or similar.
• Some theoretical understanding of the graphics pipeline, including coordinate transformations between frames of reference, PBR materials, rasterization, lighting, and ray tracing.
• Experience in image processing theory and methods, evidenced by the development of practical designs in this area.
• Some experience with 3D engines such as Unreal or Unity; in particular, generation of datasets, extraction of G-buffers, motion vectors, etc.

Equal Opportunity: Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers