Research Engineer in Multi-Modal Conversation

We are looking for a Research Engineer to join our team and help us develop and further enhance multi-modal (with an emphasis on Computer Vision) features to our conversational AI platform.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Extending Alana’s capabilities primarily using Computer Vision by processing images and video
• Enhancing the existing user experience via Visual Conversation and Visual Question Answering 
• Writing effective, scalable, and well documented code
• Training and testing machine learning solutions
• Error analysis of models
  

We are ideally looking for a candidate with the following qualifications and experience:

• Experience in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
• Experience with Deep Learning methods in NLP and Language and Vision (e.g., BERT-based Language and Vision models)
• Experienced in at least one of these frameworks: PyTorch, Tensorflow, AllenNLP, Keras
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• MSc or PhD in AI, Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
  

Although not required, candidates with any of the following knowledge/skills will be highly considered:

• Industry experience as a Python Developer
• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure

Like many businesses, our team is currently working remotely – decisions won’t be made based on location.