Responsibilities

Works within a team to achieve goals and objectives across services, including understanding user requirements, design, and coding.

Brings the State of the Art to Products - collaborates in an interdisciplinary team to bridge the gap between research and development.

Grows expertise in one or more subareas of research.

Develops a deep understanding of tools, technologies and methods that can be utilized to deploy product-grade, robust and efficient code in the cloud.

• Grows our relationships with the research community. May contribute to publications, workshops, or the supervision of interns & Ph D/MS students.

Qualifications

• Ph D in Computer Vision or AI/Machine Learning or Robotics or similar professional experience.
  
Demonstrated coding, debugging, and engineering skills in programming languages such as C++ (esp. C++14 and newer) or Python.

Hands-on experience with deep learning and/or 3D computer vision methods.

Self-motivated team-player, problem solver, and keen to learn.

• Ability to present complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.

Prior research in one or more of the following areas:

3D scene reasoning with open vocabularies, Large Language Models (LLMs).

Object detection and semantic segmentation.

Visual Localization, SLAM, 3D reconstruction.

Neural rendering, gaussian splatting and computer graphics.

Robot-environment / robot-human interaction, particularly through natural language.

Video understanding, action and activity recognition.

Experience with open-source libraries such as COLMAP, Open3D, Theia, Maplab, ROS, Open CV, Unity, etc.

• Publication record at top-tier conferences and journals (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, Neur IPS, ICLR, Co RL).

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