Senior Research Engineer - Performance Capture

About the Company

At Colossyan, we are building the future of AI video. Our platform empowers content creators to transform text into training videos, delivering cost/time savings and enhanced results for over 2000 companies including industry leaders such as Paramount, Novartis, and Continental. We're also recognized as a "Leader" on G2.

We take great pride in fostering a culture of growth within our rapidly-growing, international team of over 50. Our organization thrives on a deep-seated passion for technology and its incredible potential, with a strong commitment to the personal and professional development of each team member. Yet, we don't stop at work – we also value the importance of enjoying ourselves! Our company's offsite events are a true highlight (check out the Istanbul reel!), offering a fantastic opportunity to connect and bond with colleagues.

We are actively seeking individuals who possess technological prowess, creativity, and a burning desire to make a meaningful impact. If this resonates with you, we invite you to explore what Colossyan has to offer and consider becoming a part of our team.

Role

We are looking for highly skilled and motivated research engineer to join our R&D team working on introducing state-of-the-art solutions for human tracking and performance capture.

Responsibilities

• Work on the development of state-of-the-art human tracking and performance capturing system.
• Work on capturing high resolution, high fidelity, photo-real digital humans.
• Build and maintain a pipeline for efficient and actual tracking of human face and body.
• Maintaining a production quality code for dense monocular face tracking.
• Support the production and delivery of high quality data-sets.
• Implement fast data processing pipelines for human tracking in multi-view video.
• Work on state-of-the-art solutions for human 3D face reconstruction and animation.
• Develop and maintain production quality code for data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in Computer Vision specifically Motion Tracking.
• Practical Experience and strong knowledge of Geometry tracking (ideally for humans).
• Understanding of 3D Computer Vision, Multi-View Geometry, and Computer Graphics.
• Strong proficiency in Python programming.
• Comfortable with prototyping ideas from research papers, building end-to-end systems from scratch, and writing maintainable code inside large existing codebases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Experience with most modern frameworks for deep learning (PyTorch) as well as for software development (Git, Linux).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Human Head tracking from multi-view or monocular data.
• Experience representing Hair - hair geometry and appearance from multi-view images.
• 3D modelling and real-time rendering in Unity or Blender.
• Experience with C++ / CUDA.

 What do we offer?

An exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of AI video-creation 🎥

A competitive salary 💸

A job with real impact and value 🌟 

An environment that actively supports your growth and development 🌱 

No wasteful meetings, your time is most valued by us ⏱️ 

A significant amount of stock options 📈 

International team offsites ✈️