Deep Learning Scientist

Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is the pioneer in Emotion AI, the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Affectiva’s mission is to bring emotional intelligence to the digital world with our emotion recognition technology that senses and analyzes facial expressions and emotion.

• Run a multitude of deep learning experiments
  • Prototype new ideas
  • Explore a variety of approaches
  • Refine promising ideas into product ready models
• Explore new methods to leverage Affectiva’s large dataset of spontaneous real-world audio-visual data
• Patent and publish findings in computer vision and affective computing conferences

• At least 2 years of experience using deep learning techniques (CNN, RNN, LSTM) on computer vision tasks (object detection, classification, action recognition)
• PhD in the field of computer vision, or equivalent job related experience
• Experience working with deep learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe) including implementing custom layers
• Passionate about innovation and pushing state of the art research
• Demonstrated experience (publications, projects) solving machine learning problem
• Experience working on the face is not required but is highly desirable (face detection, face recognition, expression recognition, face landmark tracking)
• Good presentation and communication skills