Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity real-time guidance and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission we are developing compact high-performance embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If youre interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale this could be the place for you.

As a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer focused on algorithm optimization you will help to design implement and optimize Machine Learning models to achieve low latency on edge and cloud devices. You will become part of a talented team exploring new concepts through fast iterative prototyping. You will collaborate as an AI optimization expert with our other machine learning engineers platform engineers embedded software engineers and research experts of the team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing benchmarking and optimizing deep learning models for computer vision and video understanding.
• Improving existing model architectures and inference pipelines to reduce latency increase throughput and maintain or improve accuracy across target platforms.
• Developing and productionizing end-to-end video processing pipelines for surgical video analysis in cloud and/or edge environments.
• Working on problems involving temporal reasoning motion understanding and multi-frame video analysis.
• Delivering well-written high-quality and maintainable code.
• Sharing results and technical findings during regular team meetings.
• Staying current with advances in computer vision video learning and model optimization and contributing new ideas

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science Mathematics Computer Vision Machine Learning or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience designing training and evaluating deep learning models for computer vision using PyTorch.
• Experience with video-based machine learning problems such as video classification action recognition tracking temporal modeling or multi-frame reasoning.
• Strong understanding of model optimization techniques such as pruning quantization sparsity knowledge distillation or architecture-level efficiency improvements.
• Strong understanding of AI optimization tools such as TensorRT.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with relevant numerical and machine learning libraries such as NumPy scikit-learn and OpenCV.
• Ability to analyze performance bottlenecks and optimize systems across model software and hardware layers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud services and containerized deployment workflows including Docker EKS and ECS.
• Experience with data visualization for model evaluation performance analysis and communication of results.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers clinicians business stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
• Experience working on video processing or other performance-sensitive real-time or high-performance applications.
• Experience in medical imaging surgical video or other safety- or quality-critical AI applications.
• Track record of scientific publications patents or conference contributions in computer vision machine learning video understanding or related fields.
  

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