Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer for Ciklum

Ciklum Digital is looking for a Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer to join the Kyiv team on a full-time basis.

The project is devoted to enhancement of the food production industry with AI. The aim is to create a computer vision system which will control the robotic system used in the meat factory. The project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon-2020 program. Ciklum is one among 10 partners (companies and research institutions) from Ukraine, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, and Spain.

The project includes significant developments in artificial intelligence, cognitive mechatronics, and cooperative human-robot interaction. The responsibility of Ciklum is to create AI tools which will control gripping of the object and adaptive cutting trajectory planning based on deep learning.

Responsibilities:

• Implement the state-of-the-art algorithms for video processing based using the deep learning/computer vision frameworks
• Participation in the research of the potential solution
• Experiment design
• Data collection
• Data usage framework development
• Model training, testing, and optimization

Required qualifications and Skills:

• Strong understanding of image processing, video processing, and computer vision algorithms and architectures
• Experience in implementations of state of the art CV/DL approaches from scratch
• Extensive experience with Python
• Proficient in a Linux environment
• Experience with neural network frameworks such as:
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Experience with computer vision/image processing libraries such as:
• OpenCV
• Pillow
• NumPy
• SciPy

Would be a plus:

• Experience in working with RGBD images/video, point clouds, pose estimation, and keypoint regression
• BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science/computer vision/machine learning/engineering, or a related field
• Experience in building end-to-end real-time CV systems based on Deep Learning
• Experience in working with surface perception algorithms
• Experience in building reinforcement learning systems

What's in it for you:

• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities
• Business trips to Europe
• Competitive salary
• Career and professional growth
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits
• Working in a comfortably located office with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions

About Ciklum:

Established in 2002, Ciklum is a leading Danish supplier of technical personnel and teams, software development and agile business consulting to high growth companies globally. Ciklum currently employs more than 2500 specialists in our offices and technical development centers in Ukraine and Belarus.

Ciklum is recognized as CeBIT 2010 Top 20 innovative company delivering services/products for small and medium sized companies, and named the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Top 100 Global Services provider. Most recently Gartner Inc. named Ciklum as a "Cool Vendor" in its "Cool Vendors in Application Services, 2013" report.

Unlike the traditional project outsourcing model, we help over 200 of our clients establish their own development centers in one of our nearshore development locations where they outsource, completely or partially, their software development. This is the equivalent of having your in-house IT specialists, but for a significantly lower cost and with less administrative nuisances.

Ciklum clients can gain control over their IT processes and systems and get more value from the resources they already have. We surround each client team with knowledge sharing activities to foster a profitable and productive work environment during their entire outsourcing experience, including social events, strong infrastructure, financial and administrative support, QA and Agile, Business and DevOps consulting services.