Job Description
Axon is seeking an AI Scientist I to join their AI team in Seattle, Washington. This role focuses on AI applications in Cloud, Devices, and Robotics. The AI Scientist will play a crucial role in advancing the state-of-the-art in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Computer Vision technologies. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and solutions that enable intelligent perception and understanding of visual data.
What this role involves:
- Research and develop advanced MLLMs, GenAI, and Computer Vision techniques for cloud, devices and sensors from multimodal data sources.
- Design and implement efficient and scalable MLLM models for inference and analysis of visual data.
- Explore novel approaches to address challenges in object detection, recognition, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding.
- Optimize algorithms for performance, memory footprint, and energy efficiency to meet the requirements of resource-constrained devices.
- Join force with MLEs or firmware or hardware engineers to leverage hardware accelerators and optimize algorithms for specific hardware architectures.
- Evaluate the performance of MLLM models using real-world datasets and design experiments to validate their effectiveness.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest research trends and advancements in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, MLLMs, GenAI and integrate relevant findings into our projects.
- Contribute to patent disclosures, academic publications, and technical documentation to share insights and findings with the broader community.
- Experience coach and mentor junior scientists.
Requirements:
- Master degrees with experience in Computer Science and Robotics or a related field with a focus on robotics perception, MLLMs, computer vision, machine learning, or artificial intelligence.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C/C++, experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras and experience with ROS or robotic operational system.
- Drive one or more phases of the ML development lifecycle: shape datasets, investigate modeling approaches and architectures, train/evaluate/tune models and implement the end-to-end training pipeline.
- Leverage state-of-the-art research to deliver high quality models enabling multiple AI projects at scale.
- Contribute back to the research community via academic publications, tech blogs, open-source code and contributing to internal/external AI challenges
- Experience in developing computer vision algorithms for resource-constrained devices such as mobile phones, IoT devices, or embedded systems is highly desirable.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.