Head of Computer Vision, FLOX
£90-120k
+ Share options
2 days a week in office
Solutions for animal farming
Open for applications
Solutions for animal farming
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£90-120k
+ Share options
2 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To transform the poultry industry by improving the lives of the 1.8 trillion chickens reared over the next few decades.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of commercial Computer Vision experience
- 3+ years of commercial Data Science experience
- A strong understanding with MLOps and ideally having led MLOps engineers
- Experience with our tech stack: Python (NumPy, Scipy, Pandas, etc.), OpenCV, PyTorch
- MSc or PhD in a related subject matter
- Strong leadership experience i.e. a team of 3+ people
- Experience working and managing teams in an Agile environment
- Experience working with remote teams
- Can commute to our East London HQ approximately twice per week
- Start-up / scaleup experience a bonus (we are working towards our Series A)
- Ability to empathise with and mentor the team, and lead with kindness
- Strong experience in taking research ideas into production at scale
- A natural enthusiasm for keeping up to date with new technologies and methodologies
What the job involves
- We are currently seeking a Head of Computer Vision to spearhead our analytics product’s scaling strategy and creatively lead the development of our AI-based features. This role reports to the CTO
- We’re a growing start-up with plenty of room for progression and making the role your own
- Guide us in scaling and extending our AI-based product features
- Manage the expansion of our MLOps infrastructure, with a focus on continuous learning
- Advocate for Data and ML as part of the Leadership Team strategic efforts
- Work closely with our Operations team to execute our data scaling strategy
- Design, implement and manage ML algorithms
- Lead development of hard Computer Vision features like visual weighing or health assessment for chickens
- Lead and mentor the the Computer Vision team, with the option of line managing it
Salary benchmarks
Our take
About 60 billion chickens are reared for meat annually, but even under the best farming conditions their welfare is not good. The most dedicated farms might have walkthroughs to check on the flock once or twice a day, and in that time chickens can become ill or injured.
FLOX aims to improve the welfare of chickens with an AI platform that uses to computer vision, automated alerts and analytics to watch the flock at all times, alerting farmers as soon as an incident occurs allowing an immediate response. The platform also yields a huge amount of data for farmers who can use the insights gained for accurate planning and decision making.
Since its founding in 2018, FLOX has gone operational in 10 commercial sheds, including those run by the UK's largest poultry producer. It has also raised a significant amount of funding including from DEFRA's Farming Innovation Programme, which is being used to build a scalable industrial demonstrator system and to further develop the platform.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2024
$3.1m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $3.6m
Company benefits
- Free lunches and snacks at the office
- Share Options
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Hybrid work (2-3 days in our Hackney offices depending on operational needs)
- Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like
Company values
- Ownership: we love to take things on and have a support network when needed
- Collaboration: we tackle problems together to move the needle as a team
- Authenticity: we are all silly in our own way and we are comfortable taking that part of ourselves to work
Company HQ
Hackney, London, UK
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Leadership
Imtiaz Shams
(CEO)Is also Director at Post Urban Ventures. Previously was Director of Business Development for Sunfish Energy and Technology Manager at Givergy.
Nils Hügelmann
(CTO)Was Lead Robotics Engineer at Moley Robotics and General Manager & Lead Developer with anonymoX.
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