Principal Engineer

Job description

Date: Sep 29, 2018

Location: Oldsmar, FL, US

Company: Nielsen

Principal Engineer - 24821

Technology and Engineering - USA Oldsmar, Florida

Job Description

Nielsen’s Digital Engineering group is looking to expand our product capabilities through Computer Vision technologies and is now looking to hire a Principal Computer Vision Scientist in Tampa Bay, FL, Columbia, MD or in a remote working situation. These individuals will be responsible for analyzing, developing, testing, supporting and delivering complex software programming to resolve Computer Vision problems based in Deep Learning technologies. The software must be developed and maintained with high-quality standards and minimal defects.

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Job Responsibilities

Develop complex software tools with minimal technical supervision. This candidate will function as a lead over the team. Perform feasibility studies and analyze big amount of data with a critical point of view. Work on many different software challenges always ensuring combination of simplicity and maintainability within the code. Contribute to architectural designs of large complexity and size, potentially involving several distinct software components. To work as a lead member of a team, encouraging team building, motivation and cultivate effective team relations.

Essential Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

- Experience in Deep Learning - CNNs

- Experience in Machine Learning

- Experience in Computer Vision algorithms implementation

- Languages and technologies: C++ and Python.

- Experience in the use of collaborative developing tools such as: SVN, Jenkins, Redmine, and Visual Studio.

- Good analytical and logical thinking capability

- A good level of interpersonal and communication skills (English level B2 minimum).

- Problem solving capabilities

- Strong ability to analyze and synthesize

- Strong ability to meet deadlines

- Ability to keep a fluid communication written and oral

- Proactive attitude, good presence, resolutive, used to to work in a team and to manage deadlines.

- Intellectual curiosity and persistence to find answers to questions.

- Able to understand scientific papers and develop the idea in executable code

Desired Skills

- Agile methodologies development (SCRUM).

- Masters degree in an above mentioned field

- Advanced knowledge in C# programming

- Some experience in participating in Open Source projects

- Business Intelligence environments experience

- Minimal work experience of 24 months with evidence

- Test driven development experience and unit testing (Mock, nUnit)

- Agile methodologies development (SCRUM).

- Test driven development experience and unit testing (Mock, nUnit)

About Nielsen:

Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio, and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.