Computer Vision Scientist, soona
Generative Ai
$190-220k
Virtual content studio for eCommerce
Job no longer available
Virtual content studio for eCommerce
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$190-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create high-quality photo and video content from anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Effectively communicating and coding in a remote work environment
- Python – the core language of the data organization
- Training machine learning models, specifically leveraging transformers and neural networks (or similar) for computer vision and generative AI applications
- Customizing and deploying diffusion model architectures to meet specific needs
- Leveraging GPUs/CUDA vis-à-vis pytorch (or similar)
- Aws or equivalent cloud environment
- One or more of: image segmentation and foreground/background isolation, object identification and classification, image quality characterization and enhancement, generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models for content generation
- Kubernetes, docker, terraform, flask/fastAPI (preferred)
- Working in a startup environment (preferred)
What the job involves
- Build computer vision models to analyze and optimize our vast library of visual assets
- Adapt generative AI (e.g. diffusion model) architectures to suit specific needs, such as embedding customer products within generated images
- Deploy models on distributed GPU instances to serve up near real-time insights in our production image capture environment
- Create metadata capture apps to build robust training datasets using our visual assets
- Think for themselves and discover new and insightful ways to solve difficult problems
- Deliver quality code in an agile framework that ships to a production environment
- Communicate with data and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders
Our take
Soona is a startup capitalizing on the growth of eCommerce by offering brands cheaper and more accessible solutions for creating visual content. Instead of pricey, on-site product shoots, the company allows brands to design and order shoots online, observe them either virtually or at one of its stores, and receive quick-turnaround, fully edited visual assets at affordable prices.
Soona serves a diverse range of eCommerce stores selling on platforms such as Amazon, Etsy, and Shopify. By operating virtually, it allows its clients to cut costs and conserve time, making high-quality photos and videos more accessible to smaller sellers. The company also offers a range of "pro services" for a one-time fee, such as models, styling, and production.
The company has received good levels of funding towards expanding its model services, which is one of the quickest-growing segments of its business. And included among the roughly 20,000 merchants Soona has served are notable names like Lola Tampons, Birchbox, and Wild Earth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$10.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.9m
Company HQ
Overland, Denver, CO
Leadership
Liz Giorgi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Began their career as a Freelance Journalist and Producer before spending 3 years as a Web Producer at University News Service. They also worked as a Digital Director at Himle Rapp & Company and as a Tech Reporter at Apartment Therapy Media before co-founding Mighteor in 2014 and soona in 2019.
Hayley Anderson
(Co-Founder & CDO)Studied Digital Cinema at DePaul University before joining Weber Shandwick as a Producer and Editor. They were also Director of Creative and Animation at Mighteor before co-founding soona in 2019.
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