Computer Vision Engineer

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Job Description

Who We Are Looking For

• Creative, flexible, and positive attitude
• Independent, can work without much structure, in an environment that is different every day but also a good communicator and good at teamwork
• Enjoys the speed of a startup, creating things from the ground up, building order
• Want to make a difference, learn by doing and do not give up

Attractiveness/Uniqueness

• Work with farmers all across Japan
• Work with a diverse team on a project that incorporates all aspects of robotics including software, hardware and graphic interface

Responsibilities

• Look into recent research in computer vision or image processing that could be applied to our AI robots
• Development and implementation of algorithms above
• Development of novel algorithms
• Everything from concept, architecture search, to gathering data, to labeling, training, and deployment for our AI robots
• Create custom models to fit needs of rover such as computational burden, accuracy, classes for tasks such as identifying obstacles and traversable terrain, mapping
• Classification algorithms for diseases and insects, and time series analysis

Qualifications

• Skillset: Computer vision, deep learning, semantic segmentation, classification tasks
• Graduating/ Graduated Computer science or relevant faculty in BS, MSc or Ph.D. BS or MS with computer vision experience or Ph.D. in Computer Vision related topics
• The ability to develop applications and tools in Python and/or C++
• Technical communication skills in English (reading and writing)
• Familiarity with modern models and data-sets
• Experience programming on GPU (e.g. CUDA)
• Tensorflow or similar, and common neural network architectures such as YOLO git

Plus

• Master’s degree or Ph.D.
• Prior work experience related to computer vision or robotics
• Experience of machine learning model compression
• ROS1/2
• Embedded systems

About the Company

Kisui Tech is a VC backed Tohoku/Chiba University startup creating AI robotic services that empower small-medium-sized family farmers to manage larger farms with fewer people in order to overcome the labor shortage and aging society by providing machines that can do work without needing a human operator.