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SEED Stockholm: Machine Learning Research Engineer - Deep Learning

SEED is a R&D organization within Electronic Arts whose purpose is to explore new technologies and the creative opportunities that they enable for our future games. Our research includes, but are not limited to, future graphics, advanced avatares, and testing of games.

We exist at EA to deliver and foster disruptive innovation for our games and our players. We do this through research, prototypes, exploration, and never-ending curiosity. We also exist to educate, share, and be great partners. We collaborate with game teams and industry partners, and also publish and present our research within our industry and to the public. We pursue long term applied research viewed through a 10X lens, yet stay relevant to the present by delivering artifacts along the way to inside technology groups and world class teams all across Electronic Arts such as EA SPORTS, Bioware, DICE, upcoming new games and IPs.

We are looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join an expanding team in Stockholm working on applications of deep learning and related techniques for use in interactive entertainment. Areas we are researching include game AI, human-like behavior, animation, computer vision, physics, body and shape reconstruction, generative models, music / sound generation, and human-computer interaction.

You will work hand-in-hand with other researchers and software engineers. We want passionate, curious, communicative and committed people. We also expect our employees to be involved and self-driven, and in return we provide great autonomy and true influence.

What skills does SEED seek?

  • PhD experience in machine learning, computer science, physics or mathematics
  • Demonstrated knowledge and contributions to machine learning or reinforcement learning, e.g. in the form of research publications, open-source software or workplace experience.
  • Demonstrated interest and knowledge in working with interactive technologies and/or user experience (UX) research
  • Good math skills including, linear algebra, probability theory, and numerical optimization
  • Experience with Numpy, Tensorflow, PyTorch or similar ML toolkits
  • The ability to read, understand, and explain to others, scientific papers on state-of-the-art machine learning and computer science, as well as the ability to prototype, evaluate and improve upon the ideas

We seek an open and curious person who is eager to learn and teach. You get a kick out of taking bleeding-edge ideas, investigating and adapting them to real use cases for gaming. This is a diverse team with big ambitions, and we expect you to work with a wide range of tasks as well as taking initiative.

Good To Have

  • Interest in or knowledge of computer games, computer vision,
  • Knowledge of Python and/or C++/C#
  • Sufficient software engineering skills for prototyping, and testing ideas

You're encouraged to share your work, publish, open source and speak at conferences.

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

At SEED we take care of our staff and have done so during our steady growth over the last decade. In addition to a great compensation package we offer our employees 10 EA games per year, massage every three weeks, a variety of sports activities (yoga and cross fit to name a few) and health care allowance. We have a collective bargain agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer which includes a parental salary benefit program and also provide our employees’ with occupational pension.

At SEED, we value our employees’ personal lives. A good work-life balance is something we practice and maintain even during high-intensity periods.

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As part of the application process we might ask you to take on a practical work test. The position is permanent and applications will be selected continuously. Apply online with a combined CV and Introduction letter in English by the mid August when we start the interview process with shortlisted candidates.

We welcome people from different backgrounds and look forward to receiving your application!

More Information About SEED

Please visit our website and LinkedIn page !