Principal Researcher – Computer Vision
Job Description
<p>The <strong>Technology Innovation Institute (TII)</strong> is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead. Our rigorous discovery and inquiry-based approach helps to forge new and disruptive breakthroughs in advanced materials, autonomous robotics, cryptography, digital security, directed energy, quantum computing, and secure systems.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>AI and Digital Science Research Centre</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit is the machine learning powerhouse of TII, working in close collaboration with our other research centers to harness the full benefits of AI across our projects – and drive innovation from new computing paradigms, designing and delivering new AI methodologies, technologies, solutions, and systems that address challenging issues across multiple sectors of the economy – from technology to healthcare, cybersecurity, and government, among others.</p><p><br></p><p>We incorporate core elements of intelligence (perception, sensing, planning, and language) in the ideation, design, and prototyping of next-generation systems with human-like intelligence. We build advanced AI computing and scalable AI-based software stacks and hardware systems to deliver significant enhancements in systems infrastructure. Our AI researchers, scientists, and engineers collaborate to ensure innovative outcomes, from AI theory to AI technologies towards better intelligence.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Job description</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Design new methods or apply existing methods from the literature to solve challenging problems across a range of sensing and perception-based applications in different domains</li><li>Formulate novel concepts including new research thrusts underpinning product roadmaps</li><li>Guide prototype development while engaging with end-user communities and industry/academic partners to mature the company’s technology for field deployment</li><li>Lead division-wide initiatives to regularly assess the state-of-the-art in CV/ML across industry/academia</li><li>Ensure that the company remains an industry pioneer in CV-based technologies through establishing/maintaining standards of excellence/best practices, driving the development of common components/tools/infrastructure, and identifying strategic opportunities for developing differentiators within the competitive landscape</li><li>Coach/mentor CV scientists/engineers</li><li>Present your work to customers, collaborators, and the research community through papers, reports, demonstrations</li><li>Generate proposals for new projects</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Skills Required</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>12+ years experience in the field</li><li>In-depth understanding of CV</li><li>In depth understanding of Artificial Intelligence</li><li>Proficiency with Python</li><li>Proven experience with at least one of: TensorFlow/Keras/Pytorch</li><li>Publications in top-ranking conferences/journals, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NIPS, ICASSP, Interspeech, Pattern Recognition, to cite a few</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Qualifications Required</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field</li></ul>
