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. 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, 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 (e.g., machine learning, computer vision) 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:

As a Research Scientist intern, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges by creating innovative algorithms. Since we are 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-concept 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 motivated and skilled scientists and engineers, with the mission to build smart living for everyone, using machine learning and deep learning. As part of your job, you will deal with larger amounts of data, define the model, prototype new models with stringent performance requirements (e.g., accuracy, speed, model size, memory footprint), 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 and machine learning models for a variety of different tasks such as object detection, face recognition, pose estimation, event recognition, object tracking, sound detection/recognition.
• 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.

Requirements

• In pursuit of PhD in CS or related fields.
• Strong publication record in top CV/ML conferences or journals.
• Experience working with large datasets and deep learning algorithms.
• Knowledge of Deep Learning and Computer Vision algorithms (Object Detection, Face Detection/Recognition), as well as traditional Machine Learning algorithms in general, and ability to implement them in product-quality code using both existing toolkits and self-developed codes.
• Experience with one or more of the deep learning toolkits, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, MXNet, Darknet, Caffe, etc.
• Proficiency with C/C++ or Python.

Bonus Points

• ​Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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.
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Our Benefits

Wyze has a full benefits package through Premera Blue Cross. This includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, EAP, Short-term disability, Long-term disability, FSA, and Daycare FSA. Employee premiums will be paid 100%, and 80% paid premium for dependents.

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: Wyze employees receive Wyze products as the products are released (new employees will have access to Wyze products)

Employees will also receive Wyze software services once they are launched

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!