Senior Research Scientist, Computer Vision/Remote Sensing

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Description For Senior Research Scientist, Computer Vision/Remote Sensing

Google is seeking a Senior Research Scientist specializing in Computer Vision and Remote Sensing to join their team. This role focuses on developing foundation models for remote sensing imagery, including satellite and aerial data. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science or a related field, with extensive experience in computer vision research and leadership.

Key responsibilities include exploring research directions in areas such as pre-training recipes, multi-modality, and temporal sequences, as well as contributing to the team's roadmap with a focus on innovation and usability. The role involves collaborating with researchers across Google to connect various geospatial efforts and helping teams optimize the use of foundation models for their specific tasks.

The position requires expertise in building computer vision models using machine learning techniques, experience with Remote Sensing data, and strong software engineering skills in Python or C++. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing findings.

Google Research aims to make discoveries that impact everyone, and the team's work has the potential to influence technology used by billions of people daily. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in computer vision and remote sensing, with applications in areas such as land use/land cover segmentation, object detection, and change detection.

Join Google's research team to push the boundaries of computer vision and remote sensing technology, while working in a collaborative environment that values innovation, mentorship, and impactful research.

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Responsibilities For Senior Research Scientist, Computer Vision/Remote Sensing

  • Explore research directions, generate hypotheses and perform rigorous experimentation in several sub-domains (e.g., pre-training recipes, multi-modality, temporal sequences)
  • Contribute to shaping the team's roadmap, help prioritize research directions, with focus on innovation and usability
  • Work with other researchers across Google to connect multiple geospatial efforts
  • Help teams use foundation models and optimize its use on their tasks
  • Advise and mentor team members

Requirements For Senior Research Scientist, Computer Vision/Remote Sensing

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  • PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 2 years of experience leading a research agenda
  • Experience in building computer vision models using machine learning techniques
  • One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories
  • 10 years of experience in computer vision research, with 3 years in research leadership roles
  • Experience building, tuning, evaluating, and using foundation models
  • Experience with Remote Sensing data (e.g., multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, SAR) and Google Earth Engine
  • Excellent software engineering skills using Python or C++

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