Description
Research Software Development Engineer (Machine Learning)
My client, a global Powerhouse within the technology industry, is looking for a Research Software Development Engineer with a focus on Machine Learning to join their team in Cambridge on a contract until the end of June 2018 initially - The contract is paid as a pro-rata'd salary.
The successful candidate will closely collaborate with a research team focused on supervised and reinforcement learning, especially using deep learning techniques. The successful candidate will implement, assess, and innovate models on complex new tasks and will contribute novel insights and AI applications.
Role Skill Set
- Educated to Masters (required) or PhD (desired) level in Machine Learning, Computer Science or a related area, or proven comparable experience in applied Machine Learning.
- 5+ years experience in software development, with a proven track record of building and shipping high-quality software.
- Strong proven experience in implementing and evaluating deep learning models.
- 3+ years experience with a modern deep learning framework - a proven track record of substantial code contributions to such a framework is a strong plus.
- Ability to read and discuss scientific papers published at major Machine Learning conferences, and to implement and validate published models and training approaches.
- Experience with scalable data processing and/or container-based (eg Docker, Kubernetes) infrastructure a plus.
- Ability to effectively work and collaborate with a diverse team, eg, with backgrounds in research and applications, and diverse skill sets.
- Enthusiasm for working on state-of-the-art Machine Learning applications that push the boundary of what is currently possible.
Key Results
In close collaboration with product and research teams, implement and validate state-of-the-art supervised machine learning and reinforcement learning approaches in a novel application.
Key Success Criteria and Business Impact
The successful candidate succeeds in translating novel insights into validated state-of-the-art model and training pipelines and can effectively assess and communicate their performance in comparison to previous approaches. These form the basis of novel applications that qualitatively and noticeably improve over currently possible end-user experiences.
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PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.