Tinder brings people together. With tens of millions of users and a presence in every country on earth, our reach is expansive—and rapidly growing. Your work here can change the world. We have a small, dedicated Engineering team with one of the highest ratios of users to engineers in the industry, making every member of the team critical to our success. We are looking for a Computer Vision Scientist to implement computer vision and image recognition technologies to provide new, exciting features to our customers. If you are a relentless problem-solver—if you can transform large amounts of data into sound recommendations to improve the user experience—we want to hear from you.

In this Computer Vision Engineer role you will: 

• Use the latest advances in neural networks and computer vision to bring new experiences for our customers
• Develop and deploy cloud software frameworks for computer vision processing
• Integrate computer vision processing with other services on Tinder

We're looking for:

• PhD (in computer vision (CV), machine learning, or related technical fields)
• Experience working on applied CV projects. Examples include (but are not limited to) optical character recognition (OCR), object detection and recognition, image classification, and visual question answering (VQA) etc.
• Understanding of state-of-the-art deep learning techniques
• Solid understanding of CNN, RNN, supervised and unsupervised learning, optimization techniques
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Scala, and/or R/Matlab
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

Bonus points if you have:

• Expertise in deep neural network and its applications to real world problems
• Experience with one or more deep learning frameworks such as Caffe, Theano, Torch, TensorFlow, DL4J
• Experience using GPU programming such as CUDA or OpenCL is a plus
• Experience in designing and building highly scalable distributed CV models
• Hands-on experience in big data framework such as Spark and Hadoop
• Proficiency in one or more: C++, Java, Scala
• A strong record of publications in top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, PAMI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• The hustle of a startup with the impact of a global business

• Tremendous opportunity to solve some of the industry’s most exciting problems

• Working with an extraordinary team of smart, creative, fun and highly motivated people

• Comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, 401(k) match and meaningful equity

• Unlimited vacation and flexible working hours

• Daily catered lunches, endless supply of refreshments, basketball court, fitness classes and social events

• Modern, uplifting work environment in an ideal location