Who is Wyze?

Wyze is a high growth, Series B, consumer technology company. Our vision is to make great technology accessible to everyone through our smart home platform. Our aim is to serve everyday people, like me, you, and our friends and families, with too good to be true products and services. We want employees who will be inspired by this and welcome all who will help us build the next amazing chapter at Wyze.

Wyze is home to some of the most innovative products and services in the market. Time Magazine selected us for their 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022, Fast Company named us as one of the Most Innovative Companies in 2021 and PCMag gave our Cam v3 an Editor’s Choice Award. We disrupted the market with our Wyze Cam v1 and then quickly took over as a market leader in the space. We recently disrupted it again with our revolutionary Cam Plus Pro service. GeekWire calls us a start-up to watch and one of the Pacific Northwest’s next unicorns… and we are just getting started.

Our people centric innovative vision is not only present in our products and services, but it is also embedded in the fabric of our company. We were just listed in the Top 100 Best Places to Work by Built in Seattle, listed as one of their Best Midsize Companies to Work For and awarded as one of their Companies with the Best Benefits. Seattle Business Magazine certified us as a Best Places to Work too!

We value the unique life experiences every employee brings to work every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment whereby our employees are encouraged to be their authentic whole selves and are rewarded for their impact across the company. Everyone is welcome and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

Our stance on workplace flexibility:

For most roles, we support a 100% remote work environment for applicants who reside in the following states: California, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

Come join us and make the impossible, possible! 

What is this opportunity?

You are passionate about AI + IoT and our products and mission, and are passionate in applying your skills to solve customer problems in a fast-growing startup, then this is the right opportunity for you.

IoT is a perfect area for landing AI technologies, and Wyze provides the unique opportunity for landing AI technologies into products used by millions of users which is still growing at a fast pace. 

A look inside the role:

If you are a strong applied scientist with a background in computer vision, and is passionate in applying your skills to solve customer problems in a fast-growing startup, then this is the right opportunity for you. 

IoT is a perfect area for landing AI technologies, and Wyze provides the unique opportunity for landing AI technologies into products with millions of users which is still growing at a fast pace. As an Applied Scientist, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges. Since this is an early-stage effort in a startup environment, you will play an active role of translating business requirements into elegant and beautiful solutions and build quick prototypes or proof-of-concepts in partnership with other passionate people in the team. When you join the team, we guarantee that you will learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of users.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and motivated scientists and engineers, with the mission to build smart living for everyone, using machine learning and deep learning and solving problems in computer vision, sound detection, and speech recognition. As part of your job, you will collect the requirements, define the problems, define the algorithms, conduct proof-of-concepts with stringent performance requirements (e.g., accuracy, speed, model size), perform offline and online testing, and push models to production. 

Responsibilities

• Help invent, build and monitor the performance of state-of-the-art computer vision models for a variety of different tasks such as object detection, face recognition, pose estimation, event recognition, object tracking.
• Collaborate with data engineers and software developers on building data pipelines to ingest, process and analyze data that are important to computer vision models.
• Collaborate with software developers on how to productionize the models.
• Be proactive in understanding and questioning the quality of the provided data. Provide ways to monitor the quality of the data that is needed for building computer vision models and mitigate noisy when necessary.
• Be proactive in diving deep on the strengths and weaknesses of the models, continuously evaluating them and suggesting ways to quantify the patterns of errors that the models make.
• Patent and publish findings in leading computer vision and machine learning conferences and journals.

Basic Requirements

• PhD in CS or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience working on using deep learning and machine learning to solve production problems.
• Deep understanding of Computer Vision algorithms (Object Detection, Face Detection/Recognition) and ability to implement them in product-quality code using both existing toolkits and self-developed code.
• Proficiency with at least one of the popular deep learning toolkits (PyTorch, TensorFlow, MXNet, DarkNet, Caffe, etc.)
• Proficiency with Python or C/C++ and at writing production-read codes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong publication record in top CV/ML conferences or journals, such as CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, ECCV, NeurIPS.
• Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
• Ability to prioritize and strategize in a variety of project areas and deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Solid experience in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Our Benefits

Wyze has a full benefits package through Premera, employee premiums will be paid 100%, Wyze covers, on average, 68.7% of the premium for spouse, child(ren), and family.

12 Holidays - 8 set holidays and 4 Floating Holidays for you to use however you choose

24 days of PTO every year

Additional Wyze anniversary vacation days

Principal 401k Plan - there is no company match at this time

Wyze employee product perks: When Wyze employees join, you will have the opportunity to select up to three products to try (pending availability based on inventory).

Employees will also have the opportunity to sign up for Wyze software services once they are launched.

We also have a generous employee discount on Wyze products.

Rosetta Stone reimbursement if you'd like to learn Mandarin

$50 a month reimbursed as a technology stipend - taxes apply

Come Join Us!

If this sounds too good to be true and you are ready to be part of #teamwyze, then we want to hear from you! Please send us a cover letter that showcases some of the outstanding things you can do and how you feel they could apply to our vision and projects here at Wyze!

We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at [email protected].

Lastly, and exceptionally important to us: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as well as inclusion here at Wyze. We are fully committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. That’s how we do things!