Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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Job Summary

We are looking for an independent, dedicated Senior or Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to redefining the world of game play and live streaming via advanced R&D. VCG’s mission is to design and deploy advanced neural networks and machine learning (ML) for game rendering and streaming systems of SIE that exceed the state-of-the-art in runtime efficiency, visual quality and latency.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and improve core generative models for graphics and video processing for a variety of applications, such as live video streaming, game rendering, etc.
• Research and prototyping of new methods for graphics or video enhancement, and data generation pipelines from generative models.
• Collaborate with team members on drafting publications and patent submissions.
• Participate and assist the team in core R&D work with other teams within Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Requirements

• PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics or a related field, or equivalent skills evidenced by work experience in the specific domain of the post.
• Strong background in: TensorFlow or PyTorch; Python and packages/libraries related to computer vision or graphics; evidenced by the development of advanced applications in image/video/graphics processing or computer vision (minimum of 3 years of experience).
• Evidence of leading technical developments by at least 1 research publication in a top-tier conference like CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH or similar.
• Solid background in one or more of the following: (i) neural network architectures, evidenced (for example) by knowledge of how to formulate and test advanced loss functions in neural network design; (ii) design and test of advanced convolutional, recurrent, transformer-based, diffusion-based or other neural network architectures in a task-specific manner; (iii) some experience in training, validation and evaluation of deep neural network models on large datasets, evidenced by experience in using Python libraries like HDF5 or similar.

Desired Qualifications

• Publications, e.g. in top-tier conferences and journals: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.