What you will be doing
1. Provide technical leadership for a team of highly capable applied AI scientists, fostering a culture of creativity, technical depth and excellence.
2. Initiate, plan and drive projects that will bring the next generation of digital onboarding products to the real world that can withstand the most aggressive and determined fraud attacks.
3. Design and build high performance end to end systems spanning all parts of the identity verification application from data acquisition, data processing, and post processing.
4. Mentor and work with junior scientists to research and deliver innovative technologies that utilize every bit of signal in the data.
5. Participate in hands-on machine learning research and deliver the results of the research in the form of new products.
6. Communicate technical vision and roadmap at multiple levels within the organisation and externally.
7. Publish research results in national and international conferences and scientific journals. Represent Onfido at national and international scientific conferences.
8. Contribute to filing patents.
Essential Skills
9. Strong experience in machine learning and computer vision, including industry experience deploying ML models to production.
10. Track record of successfully delivering high performance ML-driven products.
11. Worked with customers to impactfully solve their problems.
12. Deep understanding of machine learning theory.
13. Strong coding skills in Python and hands on experience using at least one of the deep learning frameworks Tensorflow or PyTorch.
Desirable Skills
14. Technical experience in uncertainty modelling, explainable machine learning techniques, out-of-distribution detection, life-long learning, and related fields.
15. Technical experience with signal processing and image processing techniques.
16. Working knowledge of cloud computing (preferably AWS) and tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Git, etc..
About your values and behaviours:To be a great fit at Onfido, we look for individuals who share our values. We have over 35 nationalities in our growing team, making this an exciting and culturally enriching place to work. Check out the team and !#LI-SK1 #LI-Remote Where you will be: At Onfido, we have a distributed workforce. This role will be based as advertised on the job description. We have a hybrid model, and you can choose to work fully remote, or come to our offices! We let all of our employees choose what’s best for them. Onfido Culture: Onfidoers share a set of and want to hear from you if you believe in: > Succeeding together; you work collaboratively and put the team first > Taking pride; you care about quality, producing great work and customer / user outcomes > Creating customer buzz; you demonstrate a strong user / customer focus > Learning things & sharing them; you have a natural curiosity and default to sharing knowledge with others > Finding a better way; you’re adept at finding solutions, experimentation and innovating to make things better Benefits: We're committed to making Onfido a fantastic place to work, so we go to great lengths to give you what you need to succeed. You’ll receive: > 25 days annual leave plus a day off for your Birthday. > Two paid volunteering days per year.* > Bupa Private Medical and Dental Insurance* > Life Assurance (3x Annual Base Salary)* > Pension with The People’s Pension (employer contribution 4% of base salary)* > Generous paid parental leave > Free mental health coaching provided online > Life enrichment allowance of up to £80 per month to use for services including gym, yoga, fitness classes, massages, childcare, and therapy > Dedicated learning opportunities including using tools like Learnerbly with availability to use for learning resources such as books, coaches, conferences, courses, podcasts, and more > Our open and transparent culture is reflected in our “Better Together” motto and we bring this to life by meeting once a week for our global weekly roundup (OnThursday); holding quarterly team socials, and other company-wide social events > Expense up to £300 (or local equivalent) to purchase workstation setup equipment > The opportunity to become a member of Onfido’s resource groups in order to learn different skills in our belonging groups*after passing probation Check out Life at Onfido via our ! Onfido is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We're always on the lookout for talented, passionate people and encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or religion. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.