Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer
Hands for the Virtual World
StretchSense is on a quest to ensure everyone has the opportunity to play, create, socialise, collaborate, work, and connect in virtual worlds. Hands are the key to unlocking this. Our hand-tracking solution uses bespoke sensor technology combined with a machine-learning pipeline that is the best in the market. Our first product is a stretchable motion capture glove that accurately digitises finger movement to animate characters in movies, games, or drive metahumans in virtual worlds.
StretchSense Worldwide
We are a funded company of 60+ employees with a software and commercial team in the UK.
Our HQ is in NZ, where we are proud to design, develop and manufacture our products, whilst we also have a commercial team in the USA.
StretchSense has a growing presence in Edinburgh. We started with one employee in 2021, and aim to have 7 employees by the end of 2022.
We have an office close to Waverley Train Station, and will be looking to maintain a location close to a public transport hub as we grow.
We are looking for a Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer who will be responsible for productionising our machine learning pipeline. This includes work on our data and machine learning pipeline, and is essential for our product and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Write product or system development code.
Maintaining modern architecture and design practices;
Helping define the standards by which others should follow;
Quickly understanding requirements, owning and delivering solutions with autonomy and without any direction
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Building strong relationships and communicating effectively with internal stakeholders;
Required experience
PhD or Masters’s in a related area, e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, XR.
Experience productionising artificial intelligence methods/machine-learning proof of concept
Two years of experience with data structures or algorithms in an academic or industry setting.
Two years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Cuda), data analysis, computer vision and/or deep learning.
Experience developing accessible technologies.
Proven experience in AWS or similar.
Desirable experience
C++, Python
Experience in software testing
CI/CD
Fit
An interest in VFX, gaming, and XR
A passion for technology and applied science across engineering disciplines
Pragmatic problem solver and lateral thinker
Standard Benefits at StretchSense
20 days annual leave + paid Bank Holidays
Employee Referral Bonus
Patent Bounty Scheme
Company meetings booked 0930 – 1430 (*with some timezone restrictions while we build the UK team).
Company-provided Influenza Vaccination (optional)
If you’ve got the right skills for the job we want to hear from you.
StretchSense welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Our hiring process is predominantly via video calls and we encourage you to let us know if there’s any way we can support your application.
StretchSense does not currently hold a Sponsor License in the UK.