Senior Software Engineer, Oishii
Computer Vision, Perception & AI
Office located in Jersey City, NJ
Vertical strawberry farm
Job no longer available
Vertical strawberry farm
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Jersey City, NJ
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the agriculture industry, change the produce industry and raise the standard of fresh fruit in America.
Role
Who you are
- You have expertise in AI or ML techniques for 3D perception/localization and you have worked with complex robotic systems that use ROS or other publish/subscribe framework for realtime inference
- You are confident in your ability to work with large codebases without breaking production
- Masters of engineering degree or higher in Computer Science, Aerospace, or a related engineering field
- 5+ years of professional experience in industry or academia with a team of engineers, developing and shipping software, with experience writing code for embedded systems or environments where performance matters (e.g. video game development)
- Expert knowledge of methods for 2D and 3D computer vision, such as data-driven instance segmentation, keypoint detection, 6D pose estimation, anomaly detection, or occupancy mapping as applied towards a robotics manipulation task
- Experience and knowledge of multiple systems, areas and programing including; proficiency programming with Python/C++ in a Linux environment, experience with ROS/ZMQ or other Publish/Subscribe framework
- Familiarity with basic linear algebra concepts, such as deriving and utilizing transformation matrices
- Proven capability to make a system work in production, with minimal downtime. Have you ever had to debug a networking or driver issue? Figure out why your robot crashed after 1 hour? Push a hotfix from a weird location, like a plane? (Yes, that happened!)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, Computer Vision AI on our engineering team, you will be responsible for creating new vision-base perception algorithms for our robots and artificial intelligence pipelines. You will develop and deploy software in a Python/C++/Docker Linux environment
- You will maintain and augment on-robot and cloud codebases for large-scale deployments of robot arms and computer vision pipelines
- As part of deployment testing, you will occasionally integrate, debug, and test your code on a robot in the field
- Research, develop, and incrementally improve various modules including – but not limited to – planning for robotic manipulation, 2D object recognition, and 3D category-level object localization
- Experiment with 3D state-of-the-art methods for 3D key point estimation and safe trajectory planning using RGBD cameras
- Modify and experiment with current state-of-the-art methods for 2D bounding-box/mask estimation using few training samples for category-level objects
- Develop and run code experiments in-the-loop on live systems using a ROS-like Publish/Subscribe framework
- Develop features and modules for our robotics framework + interprocess messaging system
- Troubleshoot, identify, analyze, and resolve operating/hardware/networking system problems on our robotic hardware
- Participate/lead in special projects
Our take
Vertical farming - a method of growing food year round in enclosed environments where every aspect of the climate can be controlled - has been commercially viable in Japan for some time, but has yet to make a significant impact in the US market. Oishii hopes to change this, bringing the Japanese Omakase strawberry to America, grown inside a vertical farm in New Jersey.
Vertical farming is considered to be a major solution to food production in a world affected by climate change, but so far investment has been sluggish, mainly because of the capital costs and poor returns from the kinds of food produced in them (kale and greens are the easiest to scale but don't attract much of a premium). Oishii stands out by targeting the very high end of the market with a fruit that has been impossible to grow in the US. While the cost for this production is high (though dropping as the operation scales), this has not deterred restaurants and organic food shops from ordering as many as Oishii can grow as buzz spreads.
Oishii has recently completed a Series A funding round, which will be used to expand the business into other types of crops and to establish more farms to increase production. Having established its ability to produce and market the most difficult crop in vertical farming, Oishii hopes to completely change the way we grow food.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2024
$16m
SERIES B
Feb 2024
$134m
SERIES B
Total funding: $205.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO / holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
Company HQ
Jersey City, NJ
Leadership
Hiroki Koga
(CEO)Was Marketing Advisor at wetravel.to. Before that was a Senior Consultant (Agriculture) for Deloitte Consulting.
Brandon Somerville
(COO)Co-founded Avocado Oil Cooperative in Uganda. Was COO at Zeemi.tv and before that an officer in the US Marine Corps.
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