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Staff Engineer, Deep Learning (R5180)

Shield AI · Melbourne

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Job Description:

Join Our Team: Shape the Future of Perception Technology! 🚀 

Are you ready to revolutionize the world of perception capabilities for both autonomous and non-autonomous platforms? 

At the forefront of innovation, we are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, turning cutting-edge insights into real-time, deep-learning-based solutions to solve practical perception challenges on the edge. Your skills will play a key role in driving transformative solutions that redefine the future. 

Be part of a dynamic team where innovation meets impact. Let’s shape the future together! 

What you'll do:

  • Research, design and implement state-of-the-art perception capabilities, taking ideas from conception into world-class field solutions 
  • Work with and deploy our AI stack to edge devices 
  • Work in collaboration with the other deep learning engineers to architect and develop tools help to scale up our deep learning operations 
  • Stay abreast with the literature and actively involve in various R&D project(s) 
  • Required qualifications:

  • Demonstrable experience in delivering deep-learning-based solutions to solve computer vision problems with industry-based experience between 3 – 5 years 
  • Strong understanding of using convolutional neural networks and/or transformers for object classification, recognition or segmentation 
  • Experience working with recent Foundation Models
  • Experience with implementing novel deep learning network architectures using existing frameworks (TensorFlow, Caffe, PyTorch or similar) 
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications (Bachelors/Master/PhD in Computer Science or related fields) 
  • Preferred qualifications:

  • Publication(s) in world-leading Computer Vision/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning conferences/journals (i.e., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, PAMI, JMLR) 
  • C++ and/or Python development experience 
  • In-depth understanding of the latest deep learning network architectures for computer vision and image processing 
  • Experience with any of the following: object detection and target tracking, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), 3D reconstruction, camera calibration, behaviour analysis, foundation models, vision language models, large multi-modal models, automated video surveillance and related fields 
  • Experience deploying deep learning models in an embedded production context, including experience of structured and unstructured pruning, network quantization and performance tuning 
  • Experience in maintaining and/or setting up MLOps systems and services 
  • Experience in mentoring junior engineers/researchers in the related fields 
  • Data & ML pay context

    Based on 1,393 disclosed Data & ML salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $165K/year, with most offers between $127K and $210K (10th–90th percentile: $108K–$250K).

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