Job Description:

Are you passionate about doing research on groundbreaking computer vision and graphics algorithms which impact how Netflix produces its growing catalog of original content? We strive to delight our 200+ million members worldwide with high-quality, diverse, and engaging content, meaningful personalized content recommendations, and an optimized user interface. Developing data-driven tools through algorithmic innovation to help our creators in Netflix Studio produce content effectively and efficiently is an important part of that mission.

Job Responsibilities:

Conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and validating algorithmic solutions for variety of problems in the
VFX and animation space, pushing forward the state of the art in CG and CV as needed
Define metrics and conduct experiments to evaluate the algorithms in the production systems, in collaboration with our partner teams
Provide input to the design of our AI platform
Work cross-functionally with engineers, scientists, artists, and product leaders across teams, to help identify and prioritize opportunities and problem requirements

Job Requirements/Qualifications:

Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or C++
Expertise designing and training novel deep learning (DL) architectures for CV/CG with a broad understanding of DL methods and literature.
MS (PhD preferred) in Computer Science or related field
Deep mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods and optimization
5+ years of research experience with a successful track record of delivering quality results and/or academic publications in top CV, CG, or ML venues
Experience with DL frameworks such as Tensorflow, Keras, or PyTorch
Familiarity with modern computer graphics techniques
Great interpersonal skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical partners
Expertise in machine learning spanning supervised and unsupervised learning methods, and applying ML to real-world problems