Position Summary

We are seeking experienced Research Engineers to join us on a 6 month contract basis to start as soon as possible.

The purpose of the role is to conduct cutting-edge applied research on foundations and challenges of personalized and efficient AI to develop state-of-the-art solutions for real-world large-scale problems at Samsung Research and Development Institute, UK (SRUK). This is a good opportunity to work on next-generation mobile devices from Samsung. The research output will be disseminated in local and international research communities such as in research seminars, and top-tier conferences and journals.

As a forward-thinking company, we are at the forefront of innovation, and seek an individual with a passion for pushing the boundaries of Personalized AI processing text and images on PC and mobile environment. The prospective engineer will have an opportunity to work in production environments and solve industry-relevant problems.

The ideal candidate will hold a PhD, have publications at top AI conferences and have experience of personalized and efficient AI research involving continual learning, few-shot learning, domain adaptation, etc. in Computer Vision.

Role and Responsibilities

• Cutting-edge research to develop state-of-the-art solutions to existing problems and/or propose novel research challenges considering real-world case studies in personalized AI (continual learning, few-shot learning, domain generalization, etc.).

• Development of high-quality and documented code to support reproducible research in local and international research communities in AI.

• Publication in top-tier conferences and journals, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACL, STOC, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TSP, IEEE TIP, Information Fusion, JAIR, IJRR, IJCV, and JMLR.

• Preparation of high-quality presentations and demos to showcase the developed solutions either on server or on mobile devices.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

• Having obtained a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related discipline. Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages including Python, Java, C and C++.

• At least one first-authored publication in one of the following conferences and journals: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IJCV, and JMLR.

• Experience and demonstrated output on personalized and efficient AI research involving continual learning, few-shot learning, domain adaptation, etc. in Computer Vision.

Additional:

• Experience and demonstrated output on generative AI processing text and images and/or on other AI NLP tasks is highly appreciated.

• Experience in software libraries and toolboxes such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, SciKits, Kaldi, OpenCV and CUDA.

• Relevant work experience as an intern or a researcher in an R&D lab in academy or industry. Ability to design and execute a research agenda.

• Experience with preparation of high-quality demos to showcase the developed solutions either on server or on mobile devices.

We politely request that you only apply if you are available to start the job within a maximum of 2-4 weeks of accepting the role.

Contract Type: 6 Month Contract (Inside IR35)

Location: Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK

Hybrid Policy: 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home weekly

Employee Benefits: Competitive Salary, Annual Performance Bonus up to 21.5%, Pension Scheme with company contribution up to 8.5%, Income Protection, Stocks & Shares ISA, Life Assurance, 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 with length of service). We also have a wide range of Flexible Benefits to choose from with Samsung providing an allowance of £600 per year to spend on them.

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