Full Time

Senior ML Scientist
PAIR Group
Yerevan, Armenia

Office of Picsart LondonJob Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and dynamic tech company. Picsart is the world's #1 creative platform and social editing app with a huge 150+ million monthly active users and an install base of more than 1 billion.

Join us at Picsart AI Research and be part of an environment that fosters innovation, creativity, and a pioneering spirit. As a Senior Machine Learning Scientist, you will contribute to developing cutting-edge technologies for real-world computer vision problems. Your expertise in machine learning will play a key role in shaping the future of AI-generated digital creativity for millions of users worldwide. Our ideal candidate will possess a harmonious blend of proficiency in theoretical thinking, coding, academic writing, and a passion for advancing the frontiers of computer vision and AI.

You will work closely on the frontier of AI by using recent computer vision technologies like diffusion models, image transformers, etc., all while having the opportunity to contribute to research publications and publish at top-tier venues.

By joining us, you will benefit from

  • An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development.
  • A hybrid work model — our team is distributed worldwide, from Armenia to the US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Romania.
  • Wellbeing benefits (including a monthly wellbeing fund).
  • Growing opportunities — based on your preference you can grow in the company as a people manager or as an individual contributor.
  • An environment that fosters innovation and creativity, a culture with the ability to pilot new trends.

You will

  • Research and develop novel state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. Topics include, but are not limited to, generative AI with diffusion and autoregressive models, video generation/editing, inpainting, and super-resolution.
  • Create and implement non-standard, fresh, and creative scientific ideas to improve or speed up existing technologies.
  • Push ideas to improve the quality of designed models specified by the product requirements.
  • Support and justify new ideas with a theoretical and intuitive basis.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders while being highly involved in the usage of the research in the product.
  • Follow up and support the development of models in an end-to-end manner: from design to production.
  • Analyze, interpret, and explain outcomes of non-trivial experiments.
  • Analyze the data used in experiments, understand the subtleties of it, and modify it appropriately if necessary.
  • Communicate with data and product teams, and write clear and understandable research requirement documents.
  • Collaborate with other scientists, exchange novel and interesting ideas, and reflect these ideas in the research process.

About you

  • 3+ years of industry working experience in machine learning, deep learning (especially on computer vision tasks).
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. A Ph.D. degree in these disciplines is highly desirable.
  • Experience in continuous development of ML/DL models and supporting them in production.
  • Experience in deep theoretical understanding, communicating complex research ideas clearly and concisely in both written and verbal formats.
  • Experience in ML/DL frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Experience in scientific/academic research demonstrated by grants, patents, and/or first-authored publications at high-ranked conferences (such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, etc.) and/or journals (such as TPAMI, TIP, IJCV, etc.) is a big plus.
  • Experience in generative modeling and a deep understanding of the theory behind is a big plus.
  • Experience in leading teams or mentoring is a plus.
  • Experience in classic computer vision approaches is a plus.
  • Excellent self-organization, time management, planning, and analytical skills.
  • Advanced written and verbal English communication skills.

 

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What we seek and value most in our candidates

  • If you like to create things with a user mindset, take ownership and have a natural bias for impact while having fun, you’re our person!
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About us

Picsart is the world's largest digital creation platform. Every month, the Picsart community creates, remixes, and shares billions of visual stories using the company's powerful photo and video editing and generative AI tools. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates, and more. Used by consumers, marketers, content creators and businesses, the app is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android, Windows devices and on the Web. Headquartered in Miami, with offices around the world, Picsart is backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. Download the app or visit picsart.com for more information.

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In addition to a generous PTO policy, Picsart also provides time off for maternity, paternity, sick leave, and mental health days.

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