Axon is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to develop AI solutions that transform enterprise and public safety domains, supporting the company's mission to accelerate justice, protect truth, and save lives through advanced computer vision and machine learning (CVML) technologies.
Requirements
- PhD and 3+ years experience in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence or related technical fields.
- Proven track record of research in machine learning, computer vision or related fields.
- Experience driving the ML development lifecycle and leveraging state-of-the-art research to deliver high quality models at scale.
- Strong computer vision fundamentals such as image processing, feature extractions, object detection, semantic segmentation, video analysis or action recognition.
- Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or Keras.
- Experience in developing computer vision algorithms for resource-constrained edge devices or embedded systems preferred but optional.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other scientists, engineers and product managers to build proof-of-concepts to shape the Axon of tomorrow.
- Lead end-to-end research efforts in advanced computer vision, machine learning and gen-AI techniques for cloud and devices from multimodal data sources, including scene understanding, action recognition and anomaly detection.
- Design and implement responsible, privacy-preserving, efficient and scalable models for inference and analysis of visual data.
- Develop performance and quality metrics for CVML models and systems, and validate their effectiveness in real-world settings.
- Optimize algorithms for performance, memory footprint, and energy efficiency to meet the requirements of resource-constrained devices.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest research and advances in CVML and translate relevant findings into shipping Axon products.
- Contribute to academic publications, technical documentation, and patent disclosures to share insights and findings with the broader community.
Other
- Reports to: Director of AI Research
- Location: This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.
- PhD and 3+ years experience in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence or related technical fields.
- 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.
