Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer
Nervana · Palo Alto, CA or San Diego, CA ·
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- Data science
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Location: Palo Alto,CA or San Diego,CA
About Nervana
Nervana provides "AI on demand". Businesses use our Nervana Cloud platform to create and deploy solutions that include natural language processing, image recognition, computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence. We specialize in "deep learning", which is the technology that powers Apple's Siri, Facebook face recognition, and Google's self-driving cars and AlphaGo. The space is white hot right now! A bit more about Nervana:
- Closed a $20M+ Series A round last year from DFJ, Allen & Company, and others.
- Offices in both San Diego and in the ultra-cool Playground space in Palo Alto.
- Current customers in industries such as agribusiness, financial services, health services, automotive, and the intelligence community.
Find out more about Nervana at .
What you will be working on
- Cutting edge problems in applied AI and ML in one or more of the following areas: computer vision, object detection and localization, speech recognition, natural language processing, recommendation systems, forecasting, and multimodal learning
- Developing our Deep Learning framework
- Inventing new models that combine unsupervised and supervised learning
- Developing new deep learning algorithms to exploit novel distributed processor architectures
Who we are looking for
- Master’s (or PhD, preferred) in computer science, electrical engineering or related fields (statistics, applied math, computational neuroscience)
- Background in deep learning, machine learning & big data
- Experience designing professional software using Python, C++
- Drive to solve customers’ problems using technical creativity and hard work
- Experience with participating and winning Kaggle competitions
- Familiarity with details of implementing algorithms on multi-core CPUs, clusters (MPI), GPUs, heterogenous clusters, distributed frameworks (eg. GraphLab, Spark, Hadoop)
Nervana benefits
- Medical plans: Health, vision, dental
- Life insurance and 401k plans
- Flexible work schedule
- Great stock options
- Each engineer gets a top of the line Macbook Pro and access to the fastest GPU clusters
- Annual company retreat
- Small teams
- Fun office spaces with many toys!
- Our Palo Alto office is a part of Playground Global & our San Diego office is 10 minutes from beautiful beaches
- Free healthy snacks and beverages
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