Director of Computer Vision & AI Ops
DO YOU PASS THE PRE-SCREEN QUESTIONS?
Does working on disruptive, innovative solutions get you excited to come into work in the mornings?
Does building solutions that impact a bigger global cause make you care about your role?
Does working on a high-powered multi-disciplinary team get your creative juices going?
Do you prefer working in a non-hierarchical flat environment?
Do you prefer working in an environment where you do huddles as opposed to getting “meeting’ed to death”?
Do you prefer an environment where your thoughts are valued based on ingenuity and not seniority?
If you’ve ‘ed said yes to ALL of the above, read further!
WHO ARE WE?
Savormetrics is an award-winning industry leader in rapid testing technology and Artificial Intelligence. Our sensing devices are used to detect quality characteristics for food and ag products. Our software applications make our devices smarter and easier to use while providing intelligence to address customers’ specific needs. At Savormetrics, we are disrupting the way food companies make critical business decisions by providing novel, predictive metrics. Our technology helps reduce food waste which provides an economic, social and environmental benefit to businesses and society. Our applications are being used by leading multinational food companies.
WHAT DOES THIS JOB ENTAIL?
The Director, Computer Vision & AI Ops, reporting directly to the VP, AI, will contribute directly to a multi-discipline AI and software team with opportunities to grow your career and expand your computer vision expertise and capabilities. This individual will collaborate effectively with Savormetrics’ hardware, software and business teams to develop the next generation of industrial solutions for food and agriculture sector using computer vision techniques. This individual will contribute to deploying innovative, commercially viable solutions for world renowned customers as well as shepherding future products into production.
WHAT EXACTLY WOULD YOU BE DOING?
• Develop and deploy computer vision models on mobile, static edge devices and AWS after optimization to meet customer requirements and maintain them to later improve to address additional customer requirements in future
• Maintain and further develop Savormetrics’ automated commercial AI framework.
• Contribute to and oversee the design and implementation of data collection, data quality and interpretation software solutions for select sensors and sensing prodcuts.
• Implement and manage efficient DevOps (AI and Software).
• Design and implement data quality frameworks.
• Design and implement data pipelining systems.
• Explore and analyze unstructured data like images and video through image processing.
• Design, develop, test and deploy advanced transfer and inference engine techniques and algorithms to enable quick deployment of AI models.
• Build reinforcement learning models for continuous learning in production environments.
• Use innovative ways to solve problems post inference of the neural network
• Design and implement object fusion, sensor fusion algorithms using AI methods. Integrate and perform perception tests.
• R & D: Explore newer and better neural networks like the VID network and implement them in production.
• Collaborate with a team of cross-disciplinary software and hardware engineers while you integrate your algorithms into a resource-constrained computational systems.
• Test and debug your code and features so that you are proud of what will be tested by the QA team and confident that it will pass.
• Help field technical questions from our customer support team as they help our users have the best experience possible.
• You will impact Savormetrics’ important product development goals.
• Work with business team to help define user requirement details by providing input on feasibility and difficulty estimation.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU:
• High functioning MASc or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline required
• At minimum 15 years of hands-on industry related experience with: Commercially deployed AI systems including computer vision
• Demonstrated leadership and mentorship skills
• Experience with software / hardware (sensor) interfacing
• Expereince in optics / scientific instrumentation space is beneficial
• A rare combination of sophistication and scrappiness that underpins your ability to thrive in the face-paced environment of a maturing company
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to dive right in “roll up your sleeves” as well as provide management and strategic direction at all layers of the organization
• Appreciation for documentation.
SAVORMETRICS CORE VALUES YOU MUST BELIEVE IN TO BE PART OF OUR TEAM!
• We Make Results Not Excuses!
• Just Get it Done!
• You miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t Take!
• Savormetrics is a Family. We Care for Each Other!
• We All Lead!
• Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
• Nothing is Impossible!
• Aim High, Deliver Higher!
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
• Casual dress
• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• Vision care
Schedule:
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person