VP of Research and Development

Key Skills

Bash scripting, Jupyter Notebook, Machine learning techniques, MxNet, Python Programming, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow

Job Description

Lead the company’s research and development activities, including managing teams of engineers and researchers working on different aspects of the company’s software technology and products. Will have oversight of the company’s technical roadmap and will be responsible for delivering software solutions that utilize the company’s proprietary neuroscience-inspired machine learning technologies.

Specific duties include:

• Developing algorithms, software architectures, and code that implement a novel
• machine learning framework developed by the company.
• Contributing to the mathematical modeling of these algorithms and to the Python
• and PyTorch implementations of the code.
• Supporting the design of evaluation environments used to determine the
• performance of the systems developed.
• Contributing to the successful deployment of the company’s solutions by

supporting customers with technical documentation and questions.

REQ: PhD or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computational/Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering + 3 years of postgraduate software engineering experience, particularly with products involving machine learning technologies, including TTS and ASR systems and language identification; large language models and ontological development; and DRL/theory of deep learning. Required experience must include advanced linear algebra, optimization/approximation theory, and statistics; software system architecture (design principles, code & code quality principles, software deployment, and continuous integration); Advanced Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and Bash; and deep learning frameworks (SKLearn, MxNet, TensorFlow and PyTorch). Must also have 2 years of experience as an Engineering Manager or similar, overseeing R&D activities and leading software development teams of at least 20 PhD-level applied researchers in the AI space, and including experience with program management, delivering end-to-end, multi-month/year, cross-functional deep technical programs. Experience can be concurrent. Send cover letter w/resume to: I. Arel at Tenyx, 455B Portage Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94036 or via email: jobs@tenyx.com. No calls.