Lab Summary:  Samsung AI Research Center (SAIC) located in Mountain View, California, is currently recruiting outstanding scientists for the Vision Intelligence lab. Our goal is to perform long-term research with potential for direct impact on future Samsung products reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We are focused on pushing the state-of-the-art in multimodal understanding, generation, editing, long-term planning and tool use.

Position Summary: SAIC-Mountain View is looking for strong candidates with expertise in computer vision and multimodal ML.

Position Responsibilities:  We are looking for candidates with a variety of backgrounds, including but not limited to:

• Multi-modal tasks, such as visual question answering and visual dialog, visual captioning, vision-and-language representation learning, and dialogue-driven image/video search, editing, and/or summarization.
• Multi-modal planning and tool use.
• High-level computer vision, such as object detection and segmentation, video summarization, activity recognition and representation learning.

Required Skills:

• PhD in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 3+ years’ industry experience in Artificial Intelligence projects
• Track record of publishing scientific papers in top conferences and journals
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), motivation for international collaboration
• Ability to mentor interns and other scientists in the lab
• Experience with ML optimization including distributed training, low-rank adaptation
• Solid technical and programming skills (Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow)

Special Attributes:

The candidate will have the opportunity to work with other top researchers and engineers, and to publish at top-tier conferences and journals. We also propose new features and work with product teams developing applications for Samsung devices. This position is a great fit for researchers who want to be at the cutting edge of research, and at the same time have direct real-world impact.

Additional Information

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Samsung Research America is committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws related to the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the recruiter or email sratalent@samsung.com.

Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity

Samsung Research America is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

For more information regarding protection from discrimination under Federal law for applicants and employees, please refer to the links below.

Know Your Rights  |  Pay Transparency