Research Scientist Explainable AI
At Sony Electronics, we're looking for risk-takers who are collaborative, inspired and inspiring. We want people brave enough to work on the cutting edge and create solutions that enrich and improve the lives of people around the world. Join an environment and culture that fosters diversity, equity and inclusion. This position is looking for talent that want to relocate to Europe.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Carry out research developing novel, practically relevant approaches to explaining internal reasoning mechanisms and complex outputs of AI systems to end users.
- Investigate and implement (up to proof-of-concept stage) new algorithms and approaches to solving AI problems.
- Represent your area of expertise and corresponding work package(s) within a bigger project and coordinate with other stakeholders (researchers and engineers) towards the overall project success.
- Write code to support research, usually in Python.
- Write reports and give presentations for internal audiences.
- Write papers for and give presentations at academic conferences.
- Closely collaborate with colleagues in Spain, US, Japan and Switzerland.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- PhD in computer science (or equivalent in education and experience) with focus on AI/ML and significant engagement with questions of explainability, interpretability, or related.
- Experience with NLP.
- Plus: Experience with Natural Language Generation.
- Strong Plus: Experience with Graph Neural Networks.
- Plus: Experience with Ontologies or structured knowledge bases.
- Strong plus: Experience with user testing/evaluations.
- Experience programming in Python.
- Plus: Experience as a software engineer (or equivalent).
- Passion for making AI work in realistic domains.
- Plus:
Experience with the supervision of interns and/or mentoring of junior team members.
Other Required Knowledge
- The ability and the willingness to work with research scientists and engineers in an ambitious research project with several unknowns, developing mutual understanding and a joint culture.
- The ability to deliver on tight deadlines and adapt to evolving or changing requirements.
- The ability and the willingness to work as a member of a distributed team spanning several time zones and bringing together people from diverse cultural and personal backgrounds.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, as well as interpersonal skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences
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