Research Software Engineer

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Job Description

The AI team at Samsung Research UK is looking for exceptional research software engineers to join the growing team in Staines-upon-Thames. The team undertakes projects involving the application of cutting-edge research into proof-of-concept and commercial products for Samsung devices and services. The prospective candidate will have the opportunity to be part of building next generation mobile devices from Samsung. The candidate will contribute to software development and research of on-device AI tools and methods for their deployment on Samsung’s flagship mobile devices. We encourage enthusiastic researchers and engineers with a strong academic background and expertise in development of AI frameworks and tools. You will be poised to grow and expand your programming skills and expertise into a dynamic new set of research problems. This position will require you to work closely with researchers and engineers to enable and accelerate new research efforts for on-device AI.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Research Software Engineer, you will:

• Perform software engineering and development activities including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance for research in on-device AI.
• Understand and address software engineering questions that arise in research planning.
• Maintain knowledge of current and future software development tools and techniques for machine learning and AI research.
• Develop novel methods to improve on-device system performance, model size and accuracy.
• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art solutions for real-world large-scale AI problems with commercialisation goals on Samsung devices.
• Have technical responsibility for one or more significant sections of the assigned research project.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design.

Skills and Qualifications

Required Skills

• MSc/PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics, or related disciplines (an equivalent period of industrial experience may be substituted).
• Demonstrated success:
• Professional software development experience with C, C++ and Python is required.
• Consistently using conventional and readable coding style.
• Performing test-driven development.
• Creating comprehensive and well-written documentation.
• Participating in regular code reviews as both a reviewer and reviewee.
• Developing and maintaining reproducible build systems.
• Familiarity with software engineering practices and tools such as Git, CI, Agile, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of machine learning and deep-learning concepts such as online learning and deep neural networks is required.
• Research and development expertise of speech processing, and language modelling (e.g. speech recognition, NLP/NLU etc.)
• A proven track record in AI model development and deployment (on embedded devices is a plus).
• Experience with programming using machine learning frameworks (strong experience in Tensorflow is a plus).
• Good familiarity with relevant python libraries (such as NumPy) and tools (such as TensorBoard).
• Excellent communication, team work and a results-oriented attitude.
• Proficiency in problem solving and debugging.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Android programming.
• Experience with speech recognition algorithms.
• Expertise in privacy-preserving and on-device AI applications.
• Publications in top ML/AI conferences (e.g. ICML, NeurIPS, Interspeech, SysML or similar).
• Contribution to open source ML frameworks such as –TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, etc.
• Experience with heterogeneous programming (NEON/SIMD, OpenCL/CUDA, compute shaders).
• Familiarity with CPU and GPU hardware architectures.