Preferred Networks | Deep Learning Researchers &amp; Engineers | Tokyo | ONSITE, VISA, <a href="
We are a startup with ~200 members based in Tokyo, focusing on developing technology for Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and Bio-Healthcare. We love open source and are actively developing CuPy and the deep learning framework Chainer: <a href="
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Recently, we unveiled a personal robot system at CEATEC Japan 2018, exhibiting fully-autonomous tidying-up robots. <a href="
We have one of the world’s largest private GPU clusters, with 1024 NVIDIA Tesla P100 and 512 V100 32Gb GPUs, and we are expanding it further with 1,024 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in July (<a href="), and using our own custom DL chip MN-Core in 2020: <a href=". Using our cluster we achieved the world record at that time of training on ImageNet in 15 minutes: <a href=" 
Recently, we got the 2nd prize out of 454 teams in the Google AI Open Images - Object Detection Track challenge on Kaggle: <a href="
We have a strong emphasis on research, and our technical advisors are Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), Takeo Igarashi (the University of Tokyo) and Kenji Fukumizu (the Institute of Statistical Mathematics). We continuously publish at top conferences like ICRA, ICCV, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NIPS, NAACL, CHI, UIST, etc. Learn more about our research activities here: <a href="
So far we have raised over $100 million from Toyota, FANUC, Hakuhodo DYHD, Hitachi, Mizuho Bank, Mitsui &amp; Co, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Tokyo Electron.
We have a western-style working environment with attractive salaries and benefits in the heart of Tokyo. Ability to communicate in either English or Japanese is OK.
We are looking for talented individuals with skills in various areas related to cutting-edge deep learning applications in many industries. Find out more, and apply for all positions here: <a href="