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Preferred Networks
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Preferred Networks | AI Research and Engineering positions | Tokyo and San Mateo, California | ONSITE, VISA, https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/
We are a growing startup with about 100 members based in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on applying deep learning to industrial problems such as autonomous driving, robotics, and bio-healthcare. We love open source; we are actively developing the deep learning framework Chainer (https://github.com/chainer/chainer).
We recently announced the launch of one of the largest private GPU clusters in the world with 1,024 NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators, in addition to currently available 500+ GPUs:
https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/news/pr20170920
In August, we received an investment of $95 million from Toyota: http://newsroom.toyota.co.jp/en/detail/18012355/
We are looking for great people that are able to handle challenging tasks in:
- Autonomous driving
- Computer vision
- Robotics
- NLP
- Bioinformatics
- FPGA/ASIC design
- Deep learning
- Reinforcement learning
- etc. (please see our
website for all available roles)
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 have a flat hierarchy, so you can expect your opinion to count. Experience a Silicon Valley-like culture - while living in Japan! We are mainly hiring for our Tokyo office, but some positions are also available at our San Mateo office in California.
More job details and application instructions can be found at https://www.preferred-networks.jp/en/job