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Principal Researcher in Computer Vision

Technology Innovation Institute Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 27 Jun 2024

Financial

  • Estimate: $150k - $200k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Principal Researcher in Computer Vision at Technology Innovation Institute

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a global independent research and development institute. Today, we are building a community of multi-disciplinary scientists and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

The Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit is the machine learning powerhouse of TII, working in close collaboration with our other research centers to harness the full benefits of AI across our projects – and drive innovation from new computing paradigms, designing, and delivering new AI methodologies, technologies, solutions, and systems that address challenging issues across multiple sectors of the economy – from technology to healthcare, cybersecurity, and government, among others.

We incorporate core elements of intelligence (perception, sensing, planning, and language) in the ideation, design, and prototyping of next-generation systems with human-like intelligence. We build advanced AI computing and scalable AI-based software stacks and hardware systems to deliver significant enhancements in systems infrastructure.

Our AI researchers, scientists, and engineers collaborate to ensure innovative outcomes, from AI theory to AI technologies towards better intelligence.

About the Job

The candidate will focus on managing a team, creating, adapting, and improving algorithms for various use cases in the topic of computer vision, including the vision-language models. The candidate will collaborate with researchers and engineers from our center.

Responsibilities

  • Design new methods or apply existing methods from the literature to solve challenging problems across a range of sensing and perception-based applications in different domains
  • Formulate novel concepts including new research thrusts underpinning product roadmaps
  • Guide prototype development while engaging with end-user communities and industry/academic partners to mature the company’s technology for field deployment
  • Lead division-wide initiatives to regularly assess the state-of-the-art in CV/ML across industry/academia
  • Ensure that the company remains an industry pioneer in CV-based technologies through establishing/maintaining standards of excellence/best practices, driving the development of common components/tools/infrastructure, and identifying strategic opportunities for developing differentiators within the competitive landscape
  • Coach/mentor CV scientists/engineers
  • Present your work to customers, collaborators, and the research community through papers, reports, demonstrations
  • Generate proposals for new projects

Qualifications and Experience

  • A PhD in computer science, mathematics, or related fields
  • 12+ years experience in the field
  • In-depth understanding of CV
  • In-depth understanding of Artificial Intelligence
  • Proficiency with Python
  • Proven experience with at least one of: TensorFlow/Keras/Pytorch
  • Patents/Publications in top-ranking conferences/journals, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NIPS, ICASSP, Interspeech, Pattern Recognition, to cite a few.
  • Experience in machine learning related competitions, such as Kaggle.

If you're excited about working on cutting-edge LLM technologies and want to make a significant impact on the AI field, apply today and help us shape the future of AI!

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About Technology Innovation Institute

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a pioneering global research institute that focuses on applied research and new-age technology. TII is the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) that was established to drive the R&D strategy of Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE.