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The Opportunity

Halifax, NS
Can work Remote
Science and Research
Experienced
Full-time

We're looking for a talented and motivated Computer Scientist across all levels of experience who can thrive in an independent and high pressure environment. As a Research Scientist, you will work within our Research and Development department, building innovative products using the cutting edge technologies and providing custom made AI solutions to interesting data research and data mining problems.

A little bit more about our team and products:

  • We're a diverse and growing team from around the world.
  • We build best-in-class, beautiful, functional products that our customers love.
  • Our platform competes with the biggest companies in the marketing software industry
  • We have a big vision for the future of visual intelligence. We want you to be part of it.
  • Our current stack includes: Vue.js, Python, Flask, Celery, Docker, MySQL, Redis, AWS (Aurora, ELB, ECS and lots more).

A few interesting details about our tech:

  • Over 30 million unique monthly visitors for tools we support.
  • Our tools are used on many very popular websites.
  • Hundreds of TBs of media processed.
  • Over 1 million images / videos added every month.
  • 99.999% uptime.
  • Many Machine Learning models deployed, including ones related to the prediction of the audience engagement with media, visual object detection, visual search, and others.

What you'll do

Responsibilities

As a Research Scientist, you will influence the initial specs for new products and features. You will build and develop our back-end tools and libraries supplying custom AI solutions, developing real world, large scale applications, and be responsible for ongoing improvements once deployed. You will deal mainly with tasks and projects related to custom Machine Learning problems; these tasks involve designing, evaluating, selecting and deploying Machine Learning models, usually (though not exclusively) based on Deep Learning and utilizing tensorflow and keras frameworks. Many of these problems concern the analysis of images and videos.

What you'll need

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

  • PhD or MSc in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • You don't need to know everything. But you need to have the desire and confidence to figure it out.

About You

  • Ability to learn and adapt
  • Problem-solving mentality
  • Product-first approach to building software
  • Programming experience in Python
  • Programming experience with the following libraries and toolkits: numpy, scikit, tensorflow, and other machine learning and neural network toolkits
  • Experience in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Data Mining or Machine Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
  • Contribution to research communities and/or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as NIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, etc. will give you huge +
  • Hackathons or opensource projects will give you a second huge +

A little bit about us

Dash Hudson

The only tool you need to outsmart social 📈
Dash Hudson is a social media management platform that equips brands with intelligence and speed to stay ahead of the curve. Through its sophisticated cross-channel insights and workflow tools, Dash Hudson enables brands to create content that entertains, engages and drives consistent business results. To discover how Dash Hudson is empowering brands to outsmart social, visit dashhudson.com.

At Dash Hudson, you will be given the opportunity to take risks, learn, and grow your career. You'll be joining a talented, hardworking team with leading policies and practices recognized as a top employer in Canada.

Are you interested?

Work With Us

At Dash Hudson, we strive to build great solutions that solve real problems for marketers, and are unabashed about our unique ability to be the best at what we do. To achieve our goals as a company and provide a service to our customers that is unmatched, we believe that collaboration and support among the team is what propels us forward.

Dash Hudson would not exist without the dedicated employees who contribute their unique skills, voices, and ideas to the long-term success of the company. Building a diverse and talented team is an integral part of creating an innovative and well-rounded product, and work environment.

Dash Hudson's hiring practices and company culture does not condone discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Employee Benefits

At Dash Hudson our team is our competitive advantage. We are committed to supporting one another and we work hard to make sure everyone has the support they need. In addition to health and dental benefits for you and your family, you can also expect:

  • Vacation, personal days and sick time
  • RRSP matching
  • Mental health benefit
  • Wellness benefit
  • Donation matching program
  • Parental leave top up plan
  • Work from home benefit
  • Flexible working hours and location
  • Departmental and team-wide bonding activities