Position: AI/ML Engineer
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

SPD-Ukraine is looking for an AI/ML Engineer to join our team.

**Few words about SPD-Ukraine:**
At SPD-Ukraine, great people create great software. Our story started in 2006. Now the team of 500+ cool specialists continues to write our story. Located in Ukraine (Kyiv, Cherkasy), we create products used by people all over the world.

**The project you’ll work on:**
The product is an ambitious startup that allows drone inspectors to easily manage large volumes of inspection data as well as issues and defects found during a facility inspection. But the true highlight of the project is an AI / ML module that is designed to automatically recognize objects and defects for various facility types. This allows to save a ton of time and effort and creates a huge advantage compared to existing solutions on the market. AI models are continuously trained when new data arrives.

Robust UX supports an ability to mark and edit objects and defects for those cases where AI was not able to find them properly. Thermal image recognition and conversion are supported in addition to regular images.

The product is currently focused on supporting two main domains: power lines and solar panels. Industry experts are invited to make sure the product goes in the right direction. Other industries are planned to be supported soon.

**Team:**
PM, BE Dev, FE Dev, 2 AI / ML / Computer Vision Devs (including the current position), Designer, and industry experts from the client-side.

**Duties and Responsibilities:**
- Perform research and development for various AI, ML, Computer Vision solutions that would be necessary for “object” and “defect” detection. Create and fine-tune AI/ML models for various industries and data sets.
- Teamwork. Participation in grooming sessions, planning sessions, and retrospectives. Active communication with business owners and industry consultants.
- Clarify unclear business requirements and split business stories for sub-tasks, provide estimates for Jira tickets.
- Prepare required functionality for release and participate in deploying team-related applications and services to the production environment.

**Required skills:**
- 5+ years in research or software development.
- 2+ years of experience in Computer Vision (classification/object detection/object. tracking/semantic or instance segmentations) and image processing with PyTorch (preferred) or TensorFlow.
- Understanding of deployment and integration processes for Deep Learning models.
- Basic knowledge of Linux and Docker.
- English — intermediate or higher.

**Nice to have:**
- Experience with different object detection architectures.
- Experience with 3D reconstruction and basics of computer graphics (be familiar with the point cloud, meshes, orthophoto).
- Experience with GiS systems and understanding of georeferencing.
- Experience with AWS.

**What we offer for that:**

Teamwork

Regular 5 days work week. Daily stand-up meetings, demo, product sync-up with the client.

Conditions & Space

You’ll have 20 paid holidays. Get sick? Stay home and get better — sick leavers are paid. Flexible working hours. Work remote or at the office (Kyiv, Cherkasy). You’ll be free to adjust your working space — choose a type of chair and model of laptop (depending on the project).

Clients & Projects

You’ll be engaged in the creation of products granted SIIA CODIE and GeekWire awards. Our clients are startups and companies with strong investments and innovative ideas. You’re free to change a project — internal rotation is available.

Learning & development

Online corporate library, soft skills training, internal educational events are available for you. Our Career Advisor helps you with a Personal Development Plan. SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses on conferences, certifications, etc. Plus, free English classes with native speakers.

Sport & Health

You’ll get compensation for sports activities. If you take COVID testing, SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses. Medical insurance is also available. You’ll be able to get online support from psychologists and mentors provided by a third-party service.

Fun & Activities

You’ll enjoy two big company events (SPD Summer Party and SPD Winter Awards). Every month you’ll be able to have team-building activities. Presents are waiting for you for big life events (marriage, childbirth) and nice presents just for fun.

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at? We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you :)