Research Software Engineer – Jd Sportsjobs Birmingham

Overview

Position Title:  Research Software Engineer

Company: JD.COM

Location: Birmingham, UK

Job Description

JD.com offers endless data-rich application scenarios in a range of areas, including e-commence, supply-chain, logistics, big data, cloud computing, IoT, marketing, and automation, to inspire our research on machine learning and data mining. We have an open publication policy and our researchers have strong publication records in leading journals and at top conferences, such as ICML, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and ICCV.

Responsibilities:

• Work and collaborate closely with Research Scientists on cutting-edge research projects in machine learning and artificial intelligence including, but not limited to, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, data mining, and automation;
• Bring new research ideas to life by implementing algorithms, running large-scale experiments, evaluating performances, architecting software libraries and APIs, and building software prototypes;
• Optimise effectiveness and efficiency of your programs;
• Report and present software development status and results clearly;
• Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables;
• Be able to adapt to changes and manage setbacks.

Requirements:

• Strong programming skills in Python;
• Strong knowledge of algorithm analysis and design;
• Knowledge of probability, statistics, linear algebra, and calculus;
• Exposure to machine learning or other areas of artificial intelligence;
• Being open-minded, versatile, and passionate about addressing new challenges;
• Experience with agile software development methodologies.