Senior Data Scientist - Deep Learning & Computer Vision

  • Location

    Edinburgh

  • Sector:

    Information Technology

  • Salary:

    £65000 - £75000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Geoff King

  • Contact email:

    geoff.king@volt.eu.com

  • Job ref:

    BBBH2083_1636468681

  • Published:

    over 2 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-12-13

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

I am currently partnering with a Technology client who have a very exciting opportunity for someone to join them to head up a new software engineering team in Edinburgh. This role will report directly to the Senior Manager of Software Development.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Design and develop custom scalable decision support systems and manage existing code for internal and external clients.
Explore and develop solutions for sustainable large-scale and distributed data processing and integration pipelines.
Evaluate products, including open-source tools, and possibly incorporate them into projects.
Work closely with multi-national teams to understand requirements, business models, and infrastructures, in order to incorporate them into projects.
Keen to learn new software technology and features and integrate them into projects.
Develop new ideas and apply AI/ML to specific product challenges
Study and innovate in artificial intelligence/machine learning and its application in diverse domains.
Design competitive AI/ML services and user experience for next-generation devices and create prototypes for demonstration
Collect, synthesise, and propose requirements and create effective product/feature roadmaps
Work with the rest of the team to integrate these algorithms into larger solutions. 
Perform other duties as required.

Skills/Experience:
Strong programming and algorithmic thinking skills, including efficient recursive algorithms, algorithm efficiency analysis, concurrent programming, and object-oriented paradigm.
Experience with common image processing and computer vision software libraries, including OpenCV, FFmpeg, TensorFlow, Keras, Tesseract.
Hands-on Knowledge of Mask R-CNN and other regional network algorithms for object detection and recognition.
Extensive Knowledge of Python, Knowledge of Tesseract OCR.
Hands-on knowledge of NN modelling in visual compute projects for image and video.
Knowledge of Linux environment, commands, configurations. 

If this sounds like you, please apply now for more information