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Research Engineer II, Computer Vision
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Position Number: 2589273
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Computer and Information Technology

Research Engineer II, Computer Vision

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locationsin Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahantare nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of on-campus and online formatslead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI), on Northeastern University's Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA (ICBM), focuses on research and applications to national security challenges. Our diverse geospatial AI initiatives and prototype development have a current focus on force readiness and force protection to drive geospatial data to decisions and action. We work in cross-functional teams, exploring how geospatial data, data science, AI/deep learning, computer vision, and customer needs can create new products and insights. Diverse problems require a diverse group of minds. We are seeking a talented, motivated Computer Vision Scientist /Engineer to join our growing team and collaborate with other engineers, coops, PhDs, and Professors as well as work independently. As a member of our technical staff, you'll be working in our private cloud and/or Azure to ingest a wide variety of data, run advanced machine learning algorithms, and apply data science principles to understand the digital world by building computer-vision-backed APIs on top of data.

For superior candidates, we may consider options for remote work. Proximity to our satellite campus locations is preferred (Burlington MA, Seattle WA, and Arlington, VA).

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:

Develop, adapt, and extend KRI's CV and ML/AI technology
Develop new CV and ML models for 2- and 3-D satellite, CubeSat, aerial and ground data sources
Optimize neural networks and associated preprocessing code to run efficiently on large amounts of geospatial data
Improve existing CV models for higher precision and recall metrics, with keen interest in statistical behavior of data and algorithms
Comprehend and contribute to all aspects of ML from data ingestion, storage, indexing, transformations, training, inference etc.
Deploy models in our high-performance computing environment through collaboration with extended team.
Iterate algorithms to continuously improve performance under a variety of conditions
Participate in small and tactical development teams using agile development principles, sprint planning, and standups etc.
Participate in customer meetings to present and discuss technical plans and milestones

Qualifications:

MS (or Bsc) degree, or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (physics, mathematics, computer science, operations research, etc.)
1-5 years research experience
Ability to communicate complex data science concepts and results in an understandable manner
Demonstrable examples working with image data and noisy datasets that may have sparsity in some dimension (e.g., spatially, temporally)
Excellent coding skills (especially python with a solid familiarity with NumPy, SciPy, pandas)
Experience with git, GitHub, Docker, and Unix/Linux
Example(s) of designed and trained CV models
Dedication to continuous integration and testing
Experience with LiDAR a plus
Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Preferred Qualifications:

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Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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