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Preferred Networks

Deep Learning Researchers

CompanyPreferred Networks
Websitepreferred-networks.jp
Roles
  • Deep Learning Researchers
  • Engineers
Role taxonomySoftware Engineering
SpecialtiesSoftware Engineering
LocationTokyo / https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttps://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/jobs
Hiring notesSponsors visas.
TechML/AI
Parsed locationsTokyo, https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en
Posted bycaseus515
PostedFeb 2, 2019
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Preferred Networks | Deep Learning Researchers & Engineers | Tokyo | ONSITE, VISA, https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/ We are a startup with ~200 members based in Tokyo, focusing on developing technology for Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and Bio-Healthcare. We love open source and are actively developing CuPy and the deep learning framework Chainer: https://github.com/cupy/cupy https://github.com/chainer/chainer Recently, we unveiled a personal robot system at CEATEC Japan 2018, exhibiting fully-autonomous tidying-up robots. https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/news/pr20181015 We have one of the world’s largest private GPU clusters, with 1024 NVIDIA Tesla P100 and 512 V100 32Gb GPUs, and we are expanding it further using our own custom DL chip MN-Core in 2020: https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/news/pr20181212. Using our cluster we achieved the world record at that time of training on ImageNet in 15 minutes: https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/news/pr20171110 Recently, we got the 2nd prize out of 454 teams in the Google AI Open Images - Object Detection Track challenge on Kaggle: https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/news/pr20180907 We have a strong emphasis on research, and our technical advisors are Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), Takeo Igarashi (the University of Tokyo) and Kenji Fukumizu (Institute of Statistical Mathematics). We continuously publish at top conferences like ICRA, ICCV, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NIPS, NAACL, CHI, UIST, etc. Learn more about our research activities here: https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/activities So far we have raised over $100 million from Toyota, FANUC, Hakuhodo DYHD, Hitachi, Mizuho Bank, Mitsui & Co, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Tokyo Electron. We have a western-style working environment with attractive salaries and benefits in the heart of Tokyo. Ability to communicate in either English or Japanese is OK. We are looking for talented individuals with skills in various areas related to cutting-edge deep learning applications in many industries. Find out more, and apply for all positions here: https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/jobs