Senior Researcher

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
• 0+ 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.