Senior Deep Learning Engineer

Who we are

Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail AI solutions. We are headquartered in San Francisco, California with operations in Canada and the UK, and a tech-hub in Poland. We are a Deep Learning first company. Our mission is to automate and optimize brick and mortar retail using deep learning computer vision. Focal Systems has been deployed at scale with some of the top retailers in the world.

We seek smart, creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company and deploy Deep Learning to the world!

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a versatile engineer who has demonstrated capabilities to develop, benchmark and validate a wide variety of deep neural network architectures to extract knowledge and information from images in real-time. We are looking for smart, creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company and deploy Deep Learning to the world!

What You Will Do

• Develop state-of-the-art and novel deep neural network architectures
• Develop training & testing pipelines to assess the performance of architectures on relevant image processing tasks
• Keep up with deep learning literature and research publications in order to implement the latest techniques into our networks and pipelines
• Develop machine-learning algorithms on a breadth of software frameworks (Keras, TensorFlow, Torch) and deploy on a diversity of hardware platforms
  
  

What You Need To Be Successful

• Masters or PhD in CS / EE or equivalent with stellar academic performance
• 6+ years of Machine Learning/Deep Learning experience in a corporate environment (post academia)
• Significant experience training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
• Experience with Keras (Tensorflow) / Pytorch
• Training Deep Learning Computer Vision (DL CV) applications in a corporate environment
• Startup mentality, team player and strong work ethic to completing assigned tasks and projects within established deadline
  
  

Published research in peer-reviewed journal is a huge plus!

Why Focal Systems

Strong Values and Mission - We are a tightly-knit team with an ambitious mission and a strong set of core values, which define our approach to business and have successfully guided us since inception.

Exceptional Team - We are a team of hard-working, fun-loving professionals from some of the most eminent universities, research labs, and tech companies of our time. We pride ourselves on recruiting exceptional individuals to help us redefine the state-of-the-art.

Outstanding Partners - We work with 10+ of the largest retailers in the world and have a world-class roster of investors, advisors and partners to support & advise us in our endeavors.

What We Offer

We care deeply about the health, happiness, and wellbeing of all of our employees. We offer:

• Competitive salary
• Attractive stock options
• Quarterly team retreats
• Education grants
  
  

The Pay Range For This Role Is

45,000 - 55,000 PLN per month(Remote - Poland)