JOB AD:

• AI Researcher
• Salary - Very competitive
• Location - Staines (Hybrid - 3 days onsite) What are we looking for:
• microTECH-Global are looking for a talented AI expert to join the company's team and help develop state of the art technologies. We need enthusiastic engineers with a strong academic and experience in Machine Learning. The candidate will contribute to the development and optimisation of models for embedded devices.

Key Responsibilities:

As an AI Researcher you will:

• Ensure that work packages meet requirements, pass quality standards and are integrated with other parts of the system
• Innovate novel AI technologies to enhance audio quality on embedded devices
• Improve the run time performance of the AI model on device, including optimising model size, latency and quality
• Have technical responsibility for one or more significant sections of the assigned project
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design
• Work to a professional standard, paying due regard to safety, efficiency, cost effectiveness, time scales and the needs of the Company Background & Experiences
• A Master's or higher degree in Electronics, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related discipline. An equivalent period of industrial experience may be substituted
• Proven skills in compiling, deploying, profiling and optimizing latency and quality models on embedded devices (NPU and/or CPU)
• Excellent general AI skills, including improving quality of models using various techniques, including developing new architectures, novel training approaches. Experience with building training pipelines, applying new datasets and achieving timely results
• Specific experience and application of general sound enhancement technologies for voice or other audio components. Including but not limited to AI technologies
• Analysis and design of software modules within an embedded system including creation of demo applications to showcase AI work.
• Excellent general communication skills, including clear and concise written and verbal reporting. Proven experience with project planning
• Working in a small team, the candidate must be a team player and be flexible, and able to exhibit excellent time management
• Prior experience of innovation in AI space, finding new project domains and generating project proposals
• Individuals suitable for the position must be enthusiastic and be prepared to develop their skill set across a diverse software environment Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:
• Publications in top ML conferences (e.g. ICML, ICCV, SysML or similar)
• Contribution to open source ML frameworks such as -TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, etc.
• Experience with knowledge distillation, computer vision algorithms, federated learning
• Knowledge of one or more interpreted languages, such as Python and/or JavaScript
• Experience of real-time and/or embedded software development in C++ (on embedded Linux) including multi-threaded programming (POSIX)
• Linux (or other Unix-like) programming experience, shell scripting
• Version control systems, software build environments
• Source code quality checking and analysis tools