AI Engineer *Full remote

[Conditions]

Employment type: Permanent

Trial period: 3 months

Estimated annual income: ¥3.6M - ¥5M

*The above amount includes deemed overtime pay for 25 hours per month.

Work location: Tokyo, Sapporo or fully remote

Working hours: Full flextime system (no core time) *8 hours a day

Holidays: 2 days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), public holidays

Vacation: Summer vacation, year-end and New Year holidays, and other vacations available

Overtime hours: average 15 hours per month

[Company Profile]

This startup company born from a research lab at Hokkaido University with the mission of "practicalizing research to benefit society."

Currently, the company is making the most of their knowledge and experience in AI technology and working with customers in various industries to take on the cutting edge of the times.

[Charm of the company/job]

• Through collaboration with industry, government, and academia, the company is contributing to the promotion of DX in all areas such as manufacturing, agriculture, universities, government, and information and communications.
• They have established an offshore development base in Bangladesh.

[Job description]

You will be responsible for the following tasks in cooperation with project members under the guidance and management of the Tech Lead in an R&D project to solve client needs with image AI technology.

• Research and development of image recognition technology using machine learning as typified by deep learning (mostly implemented in Python + PyTorch)
• Gathering information on the latest technologies using international conferences/arXiv
• Open implementation/Verification of the latest technology using GitHub

[Requirements]

• At least 3 years of research and development experience (including university and graduate school research) in the area of image recognition and machine learning
• Software coding skills (Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, etc.)
• Ability to read and collect information from English papers and articles
• Japanese communication skills (native Japanese speaker or JLPT N3 or above)

[Preferred requirements]

• Experience in submitting and presenting papers at international conferences and in domestic and international journals
• Ph.
• Experience participating in and winning prizes in Kaggle and competitive programming
• English proficiency to conduct business (meetings, presentations, etc.) in English (TOEIC score of 700 or above as a guide)

[About selection]

Documents required for application: Japanese resumes

Interview language: Japanese(/English)

Number of interviews (flow): 2 to 3 times

Applications from overseas residents: Not possible

*Subject to change depending on the candidate's situation