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The World’s Most Watched TV Show Will Be Hosted By Artificial Intelligences
The world's first artificial intelligence (AI) TV hosts will preside over this year's China Central Television (CCTV) New Year's Gala – the world's most-watched TV broadcast.
An audience of over one billion people worldwide is expected to tune into the Chinese state broadcaster’s Spring Festival Gala marking the Chinese lunar new year on February 5. The four well-known human hosts – Beining Sa, Xun Zhu, Bo Gao, and Yang Long – will each be joined by an “AI copy” of themselves – in effect, their very own digital twin.
The "personal artificial intelligences," created by ObEN Inc., are being touted as the world's first AI hosts. Rather than simply being computer generated avatars, AI technologies including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and speech synthesis have been used to "rebuild" the virtual copies of the celebrities from the ground up.
Chinese girl idol group SNH48 creates digital clones built by AI
The four-minute music video, co-produced by Tencent-backed artificial intelligence (AI) start-up ObEN, claims to be the world’s first commercially released song co-starring human singers and their AI 3D avatars.
Create your own avatar twin that talks like you
ObEN CEO Nikhil Jain on the technology that helps people create their own personal avatar twin.
The brave new world of digital humans, designed to do our bidding
“What if there was a copy of me that could interact with my kids and talk to them?” Nikhil Jain asked himself this question, after yet another situation where he was torn between working on his business and being with his family. “Whenever I travel, my kids would miss me a lot because they’re so used to having me around,”
ObEN lands $5M from Tencent and others for AI-powered avatars
ObEN, a startup that is building software to create personalized avatars for celebrities, has raised $5 million in a strategic investment that should help it expand its product into China. The round was led by Chinese tech giant Tencent, with participation from Fengshion Capital and Li Ruigang, the chairman of China Media Capital.
ObEN raises $5M from Tencent to create AI celebrities for AR
The worlds of VR and AR may deeply change how we interact with computers but it may also change how we follow celebrities as well.
New Venture Aims to Create AI-Driven Digital “Copies” of Hollywood Stars
ObEN is reaching out to Hollywood talent agencies with an eye toward creating digital "copies" of actors and celebrities for a variety of uses. For instance, Siri’s voice could be replaced by that of a famous actor or actress. Or a digital version of a popular comedian could greet you on your mobile — or appear in some iteration of virtual, augmented or mixed reality.
How to Save Your Digital Soul
With a selfie and some audio, a startup called ObEN says, it can make you an avatar that can say—or sing—anything. For the past three years, Jain has been working on ObEN, the startup he cofounded and leads.
The Vive Is Getting Its Own Social VR Experience Through WeChat Integration
Facebook released Spaces last week — a virtual reality social experience that lets you meet up...
The next generation of VR enhancements coming to HTC Vive
Wireless multiplayer, better social engagement and eye-tracking technology is almost her. The first year of consumer virtual reality has been exciting, to be sure, but ask anybody in the industry, and they'll tell you that it's only the beginning.
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Join The Team
Competitive Salary and Generous Stock Options
We pay top dollar for top talent + frequent bonuses
Lunch, Dinner, Snacks & Bagel Mondays
Never go hungry with company sponsored meals
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Plans
Not feeling well? We got you and your family covered
Open Vacation Policy
No more counting days, take time off when you need to
Submit Papers to Journals
Publish your work and present them at conferences
Weekly Chair Massages and Yoga
Relax those achy muscles and meditate
Flexible Working Hours
We’re an active team with family values
Company Happy Hours, Hikes & Retreats
We love to play together
Stage 1: Phone Interview
Stage 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
Stage 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
Stage 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities
Stage 5: Offer Letter
At ObEN, every team member is also a partner in the company and is responsible for contributing towards the achievement of its Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). If you are not familiar with OKR’s, here’s a good tutorial.
At ObEN we believe that every partner not only works towards the company’s OKR’s but also for their own self. This might include personal priorities such as work/life balance, making more money, filing IP, etc. We take every individual’s preferences into consideration and want to hear about them during the hiring process so the appropriate package is drafted for them.
As part of our extremely refined hiring process, we expect our candidates to submit their OKR’s (candidates will get a sense of it during the initial stages of the hiring process), but also some of their own goals and personal priorities; along with their monetary expectations as well. We believe that having this information prepared will help us create a personalized package for our future partners.
Current Openings
If you are interested in joining the ObEN team send us your resume and/or LinkedIn profile along with a cover letter identifying your five favorite phone apps. careers@oben.me
You can also sign-up to receive ObEN Job Alerts here.
Computer Vision
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the research scientist who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
Responsibilities:
As a member of the computer vision team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Requirements:
- PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- 3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics
- Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts
- High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping
- High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation
- General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision
Pluses:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Deep Learning & NLP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Speech
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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Software Engineering
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for building and extending our APIs (VR/AR/AI) and services for our native iOS/Android applications and mobile/desktop web applications. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for REST-oriented architecture supporting a variety of APIs, web applications, and devices
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, writing APIs, scalability, and maintainability improvements for our innovative platforms
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 3-5+ years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on APIs and web applications
- Production experience working with scalable/distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of Python, Object-Oriented Programming (Java), design patterns, and frameworks
- Experience designing REST APIs and implementing oAuth2 security protocol
- Solid foundation in MySQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Experience with Asynchronous programming
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jira, Jenkins)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and highly scalable multi-tier web applications on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with virtualization technologies like Docker/Vagrant
- Prefer strong experience in UI development with good knowledge of object-oriented Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- Experience with node.js/React/PHP
- Strong experience using Search Engine technologies (Solr/Elasticsearch)
- Experience using Redis
- AWS (EC2, Route53, SNS, SQS)
- CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai)
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the designer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people who understand and respect what you do.
We are looking for a passionate, creative Designer with a strong visual eye and experience designing UI and marketing collateral to shape the brand and design direction for ObEN. You must be a creative, detail-oriented designer with a make-it-happen spirit. Show us your best.
Responsibilities:
- Design experiences that are simple, encouraging, elegant, and intuitive
- Create UI design for all ObEN online and print marketing collateral, including web design, mobile applications and social media email marketing, etc.
- Participate in the design and product life cycle of new UI functionality, enhancements, and branding for ObEN
- Work effectively with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, and Engineers
- Support product team’s visual and branding needs
- Solicit and give open and honest feedback as part of the design process
Requirements:
- BA or BFA in Graphic Design or professional equivalent
- 3-5+ years of experience
- You can conceptualize and offer design solutions while following creative direction
- Mastery of skills with the common tools of the trade (Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, Pen and Paper)
- Good understanding of how to maintain brand consistency with attention to detail, and a solid grasp of the technical requirements for web design
- Must be able to collaborate with and share design concepts to senior management
- A strong design portfolio with a range of UX/UI examples is a must
- Crazy, innovative ideas and having a lot of fun
- Strong knowledge of user-interface, design patterns and best practices for web and mobile apps
- Detail-oriented and highly communicative, with the ability to work independently, think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
- A good sense of humor
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android)
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and implementing infrastructure tools, automating the deployment pipeline, and working with development teams to help build scalable services and software.
ObEN is looking for an experienced, motivated, devops-minded software engineer to join us in maintaining and improving our innovative platform.
Team motto: Standardization, Virtualization, Automation, and Documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Interface with engineering teams to understand code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices for operational tasks
- Be strong in troubleshooting technical issues, communicating and documenting procedures, and recommending architectural changes if necessary
- Provide adequate response to error alerts, ensure proper monitoring implementation and provide solutions to ensure 100% site up time
- Participate in on-call rotation duties for emergency operations
- Be flexible, be team-oriented, have good communications skills, be generally pretty awesome
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- 3-5+ years of experience
- Fluent in a programming language (Python and Java is a plus)
- Must be able to directly communicate with developers on specifications and architecture required to support numerous project/features
- Experience with CDNs (Akamai, Edgecast, Cloudfront, etc)
- Experience with Redis, memcached, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores
- Familiar with SQS, SNS, SES, RabbitMQ
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- MySQL experience is required (Solr or Elasticsearch is a plus)
- Able to discern a network issue vs a system issue
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Proficient with deploying and managing systems utilizing Docker, Jenkins, AWS (Ali Cloud is a plus)
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Knowledgeable with Red Hat package management (rpm and yum, building rpms)
- Able to dissect an existing application stack and convert the configuration of the system and application into an automated process
- Knowledgeable about monitoring tools (New Relic) metrics for performance and building dashboards
- Experience with oAuth2 security protocol, automated security vulnerability and configuration scans
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
Not ready to apply for this job? Sign-up to receive ObEN job alerts.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for building and extending our APIs (VR/AR/AI) and services for our native iOS/Android applications and mobile/desktop web applications. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for REST-oriented architecture supporting a variety of APIs, web applications, and devices
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, writing APIs, scalability, and maintainability improvements for our innovative platforms
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on APIs and web applications
- Production experience working with scalable/distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of Python, Object-Oriented Programming (Java), design patterns, and frameworks
- Experience designing REST APIs and implementing oAuth2 security protocol
- Solid foundation in MySQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Experience with Asynchronous programming
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jira, Jenkins)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and highly scalable multi-tier web applications on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with virtualization technologies like Docker/Vagrant
- Prefer strong experience in UI development with good knowledge of object-oriented Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- Experience with node.js/React/PHP
- Strong experience using Search Engine technologies (Solr/Elasticsearch)
- Experience using Redis
- AWS (EC2, Route53, SNS, SQS)
- CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai)
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. iOS Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and tablets. Your primary focus will be development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and research scientists on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, scalability, and maintainability improvements for the iOS platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5 years of overall software development experience
- 3+ years’ development experience for Apple mobile platforms up to the current iOS 10 SDK
- Strong knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming
- Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
- Proficient with iOS frameworks such as Geofencing, Auto Layout, Core Data, Core Animation and Grand Central Dispatch
- Experience with Objective-C and Swift
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Strong focus on quality and generating results
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
- Experience with developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
- Knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Knowledge of ReactiveCocoa a plus
- Android experience is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
Not ready to apply for this job? Sign-up to receive ObEN job alerts.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by personalizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. QA Engineer is responsible to create and implement quality best practices processes and maintain test automation frameworks, and develop tools to ensure we deliver optimal end user experience for our products. At ObEN, our team always strives to think out side of the box, be innovative and have lots of fun while developing solutions from ground up that contributes directly to the success of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing and implementing build and test infrastructure, creating and enforcing good engineering practices, and evaluating product quality for both internal and external products
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Perform software verification utilizing numerous testing methodologies (regression, stress, etc)
- Create test cases/checklists, requirement traceability and other essential documentation to better facilitate the progression of the project
- Create test automation in conjunction with the engineering team to increase test coverage in a repeatable fashion
- Design test strategies by analyze and dissect complex heavily integrated software systems
- Work closely with product managers and software developers to report defects and verify bug fixes
- Develop sustainable and scalable testing strategies
Requirements:
- 3-5+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- Experience with one of the automated testing suites
- Experience in testing Desktop/Mobile/App both front end and back end
- Knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming knowledge
- Ability to demonstrate coding skills (Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.JS, and LINUX)
- Experience with open source automation tools Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Proven ability to deliver bug free world class systems
- HTML and JavaScript experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented and highly communicative, with the ability to work independently, think critically when solving problems
- Experience with testing both open source and enterprise technologies a plus
- AWS a plus
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
Not ready to apply for this job? Sign-up to receive ObEN job alerts.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. Unity Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of mobile, browser and pc-based applications (VR/AR/AI) and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and research scientists on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, scalability, and maintainability improvements for the Unity platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5 years of overall software development experience
- 3+ years’ development experience for Unity applications
- Strong knowledge of Unity, including experience with scripting, shader, plugins, textures, animation, GUI/Canvas styles, and user session management
- Familiarity with level design and planning
- Experience with 3D is a must
- Strong knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming (C#)
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect applications to back-end services
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Strong focus on quality and generating results
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
- Experience with developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Android/iOS experience is a plus
- Experience with Objective-C/Swift is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN’s proprietary artificial intelligence technology quickly combines a person’s selfie and voice to create a personalized and realistic 3D virtual avatar. Transport your virtual avatar into virtual reality and augmented reality environments and enjoy deeper, social, more memorable experiences. Founded in 2014, ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and is located in Pasadena, California at leading technology incubator Idealab.
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
contact@oben.me
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身临想象之界
创造更深刻、社交更广泛、记忆更持久的人生体验
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百合网联合创始人投身VR创业,融资770万美金的技术秘密是?
2015年12月7日,世纪佳缘与百合网宣告合并,从而一举超越有缘网,成为当时婚恋网站中用户基数最大的玩家。
不过,对于此时的郑毅而言,“百合网联合创始人”的身份似乎已经显得淡薄。他对外公开的标签已经变成了ObEN的联合创始人兼COO。身边的人也从田范江、慕岩等老战友换成了一个来自印度的小伙子Nikhil Jain,甚至办公的地点也从北京的写字楼换成了美国的科技创企孵化器IdeaLab。
看这神奇的三维图像重建技术,通往西部世界的列车可能已经开启了 | CES 2017
“咔擦”,自拍完成。
下一秒,我看见了自己的3D虚拟形象,投射到旁边纸张上,向我眨了眨眼睛。今年CES上,有许多令人惊异的新科技,上文中提到的,就是我尝试的来自ObEN的三维图像重建技术以及AR技术。
虚拟现实科技公司 Oben 获得盾安集团领投 770 万美元 A 轮融资,帮助用户轻松构建虚拟自我
本周四(11 月 3 日),虚拟现实科技公司 Oben 宣布获得了一笔 770 万美元的 A 轮融资,领投方是中国盾安集团旗下投资分部 CrestValue Capital,参投方包括知名风投 Cybernaut Investment 旗下美国投资基金 Cybernaut Westlake Partners 和深圳清华力合创业投资有限公司。
HTC Vive X 创速项目(Vive X VR Accelerator)宣布第一批入选的33所公司名单,同时旗下虚拟现实风险投资联盟(VRVCA)可投资资本规模扩大至120亿美元
四月时我们曾报道,HTC启动了一项新项目,名为Vive X速创,致力于推动虚拟现实技术公司发展。今天,第一批参与该项目的公司名单终于揭晓。
凯撒娱乐集团向公众展示微信智能机器人,它使用的正是ObEN 的拟人化人工智能技术。
今年1月6-9号的年度消费电子产品展会上,凯撒娱乐集团在拉斯维加斯大道中心地段、旗下凝酷酒店(The LINQ Hotel Las Vegas)向公众展示微信机器人”Ben”—一个虚拟的礼宾部接待员。”Ben”使用的正是ObEN专利开发的语音技术。
Join The Team
极具竞争力的薪金水平和诱人的股权员工计划
我们不吝为最优秀的人才开出最高的薪资+经常性的红利
午餐,晚餐,零食&百吉圈(Bagel)周一
公司提供周全的饮食,你永远不会饿肚子
医疗保险,口腔和眼睛保健,401K养老计划
身体不舒服?我们会照顾好你和你的家人
开放式假期制度
不用再数日子,需要的时候就请假吧
向专业期刊提交论文
发表你的科研成果,并在研讨会上展示
每周坐式按摩和瑜伽课
放松酸痛的肌肉,陷入冥想
灵活的工作时间
我们是一支充满活力的队伍,笃信家庭的价值
公司欢乐时光,徒步&短期出游
我们享受一起玩乐的时光
在ObEN, 每一个组员也同时是公司的合伙人,肩负为达成公司“目标和关键成果”(OKRs)做贡献的责任。如果你不熟悉什么是“目标和关键成果”(OKRs),以下是一个不错的简介。
在ObEN,我们认为每一个合伙人不应只为公司的OKRs工作,也应为自己而工作。这表示工作中也要包括个人的意愿,比如,生活工作的平衡,赚更多的钱,申请知识产权等等。我们希望可以在招聘流程中听到每个人对自己发展意向的表述,加以考虑,从而制定出更加合适的待遇提议。
作为我们及其精细的招聘流程中的一部分,我们希望求职者不仅可以提交一份OKRs提议书(面试者会在流程开始时对OKRs是有更多的了解),一份个人目标计划书,连同对薪资待遇的期待值。我们认为这些信息十分重要,可以帮助我们更好的为未来的合作者制定一份个人化的待遇提议。
Current Openings
如果你对加入ObEN 团队感兴趣,请发送你的个人简历和/或你的领英资料,一份求职意向书(请注明你最喜欢的五个手机软件)至 careers@oben.me
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计算机视觉
ObEN is also part of HTC Vive’s Accelerator and developing killer applications for VR: http://goo.gl/8oOZte
Responsibilities:
As a member of the virtual avatar team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Must have:
PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics.
Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts.
High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping.
High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation.
General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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机器学习&神经语言规划(NLP)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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软件工程师
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
You will be responsible for working closely with our design/UI/UX team and developing the iOS app which will manage the natural human interfaces for robotics. Sound interesting enough? Read on!
You must have:
- Deep customer empathy and ability to quickly translate insights, whiteboard sessions, napkin sketches and water cooler talks into mockups, wireframes, and working proof-of-concept code
- Expertise in quickly translating design (Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, PNGs) into working iOS code
- Work with our team of scientists and engineers to ensure compatibility with our human interface technology
- Ability to mock out server side dependencies to move fast. Knowledge of server side development processes, tools, and technology is a huge plus
- Get stuff done really fast and smart
Qualifications:
- Hackathon expert
- 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
- Capable of end-to-end product development: Ideation, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Iteration, Deployment, Approval, Support etc.
- Strong experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD):
- Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Ability to prototype really fast and improvise
- Expert knowledge writing Objective-C, Swift and utilizing iOS Frameworks
- Managing a team of developers
- Managing release schedules of Apps
You must have:
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications
- Developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud tech
- Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications
- Experience with various, modern web frameworks
- Android experience is a plus
- Experience working in the trenches of a start-up is a Plus
- Position based out of Pasadena offices. Local candidates preferred.
Great to have:
- No Ego when your ideas or code is scrapped or rejected
- Ability to change direction rapidly after grasping
- Ability to have team rally behind you
- Work long, hard hours in a smart way
- Enjoys team activities and working in an open culture environment with horizontal organizational structure
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers to lead the build of build consumer applications and prototypes which incorporate key technologies developed in-house.
You will: (Either directly or through leadership of other team members)
- Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
- Implement client-server API’s that allow machine interactions with our systems.
- Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
- Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
- Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
- Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
- Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
- Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
- Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
- Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
- Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
- Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.
You must have:
- Experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PHP/Mysql.
- Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
Great to have:
- Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Platforms such as Matlab - Experience with Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for a user experience designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
You will:
- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a lead experience architect
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned
You must have:
- Tangible user experience design experience for software, Web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps on the fly
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Great to have:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android) a plus
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field
- Portfolio to accompany resume
- Background check and reference checks required upon hire
- Location: Pasadena
- Full-time / Part-time / Internship
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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语音分析师
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Speaker Verification Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speaker recognition and verification technology.
Currently, we are interested in Speaker Recognition Scientists with experience in the task of Speaker Verification.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speaker recognition. Preferably, on topics related to speaker verification.
- Solid experience and/or a publication record in the area of speaker recognition.
- Experience or a publication record in speaker verification is a big plus.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics and speech production acoustics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or Linkedin profile
- Links to prominent scientific/professional contributions
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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管理运营
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader with a strong technical background that can lead our talented group of developers. This role will be responsible for the back-end team and mobile app team. We are looking for someone who is highly technical, a heavy coder and is comfortable reviewing code and having spirited debates with the engineers and software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech. This role will report to the Executive team (CTO, COO and CEO).
You will:
- Manage overall technical architecture of company (US, China and beyond)
- Mentor and lead a team of 5-6 back-end and mobile (iOS/Android) engineers and help hire and onboard new engineers.
- Work with the engineers to design and build features that are easy to maintain and scale.
- Establish and drive the best agile development practices within the team.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Identify the bottlenecks within the development process and optimize the productivity of the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders from the Engineering team, Product and Marketing to identify and build features that impact our end users and drive business feature deliveries and platform enhancements.
You must have:
- Must be very comfortable reviewing code and having technical discussions with the engineers.
- Very clear understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and REST principles.
- Must be very comfortable with agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Must be self-directed and thrive in a fast paced and entrepreneurial culture.
- Chinese speaking/ writing/ reading is a big plus
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience managing teams of 5+ back-end engineers or architects.
- Experience with implementation and delivery of large-scale projects using Java, PHP, Python or other languages
- Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites and apps
- Experience with global architecture espcially in China
- 8+ years of development experience.
- 4+ years of management experience.
Great to have:
- You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
- You’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hats.
- You enjoy a variety of tasks and don’t mind switching between projects throughout the day.
- You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage team workflow.
- You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
- You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Join ObEN as a Technical Program Manager and help build innovative applications and custom solutions. You will play a critical role in planning new systems architecture and technical direction for the company’s technology roadmap. You will be working with senior scientists, developers, business partners, and external vendors to ensure high quality deliverables. You will need to have a “roll up your sleeves” approach and “get down in the trenches” in order to jump in to code frequently. Candidates should have a strong software engineering background with the hunger to manage large-scale mission critical applications and web platforms. Sound judgment, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong technical leadership, managing senior technical team and the driving decisions through consensus and influence change are must.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly technical and experienced software engineers.
- Define delivery milestones based on project requirements
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to achieve planned delivery milestones
- Manage multiple projects in different phases of the SDLC
- Drive the analysis and design of systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
- Work with scientists and vendors on defining the scope, milestone, deliverables, and resources needed for the project.
- Plan Agile Sprints working with business partners
- Perform regular design and code reviews and when needed, participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues.
- Lead technical developers; own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance and completeness.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the development teams.
- Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security.
- Maintain company servers as needed
- Do minor programming tasks as needed
You must have:
- BS/MS degree in computer science/EE or equivalent
- Strong understanding of project management principles and processes.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Extensive experience in enterprise systems and software architecture, design, and development and working knowledge of the full SW development lifecycle.
- Experience in managing highly technical teams and mentoring engineers
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented, SOA design concepts, and programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C , PHP
- Experience in platforms such as Matlab
- Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems including mySQL, etc.
- Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities in cross-functional and matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Great to have:
- PHP/MySql programming
- MATLAB
- Digital Signal Processing
- AWS setup/ maintenance
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Job Description
ObEN is looking for a Technical and Solutions Architect to help build our applications at scale globally. This includes enabling innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps w/ technologies like deep learning and machine learning, building web, VR & mobile scale-out applications and coordinating with our customers globally about deploying our applications.You will need to have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. You will be responsible to build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
- 3+ years software/technology customer facing experience
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or AliCloud
- Working knowledge of Chinese language
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Any use cases which demonstrate your work
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN人工智能科技公司,致力于扩增实景和虚拟现实技术,为大众提供更深刻,社交更广泛,记忆更持久的人生体验。于2014年在加州帕萨迪纳的Idealab创意工作室中成立,也是孵化器HTC VIVE X 创速项目的重要伙伴之一。
加利福尼亚,西联合路130号,帕萨迪纳 91103
contact@oben.me
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Humanizing Your Digital Future
Personalized social avatars for VR, AR & IoT
Create your personalized and realistic 3D virtual avatar with just one selfie and a short voice recording, and transport your virtual avatar into any VR, AR and IoT experience.
Press
ObEN Raises $7.7M for Virtual-Reality Avatars
The company says it uses artificial intelligence to create avatars that look and sound like real people
With two minutes and a selfie, anyone could be singing in Chinese in VR
Sedonah, 5, speaks Chinese fluently but her father doesn't know a lick of it. So when Sedonah saw a video of him singing a Chinese song, she lit up with amazement.
ObEN nabs $7.7M Series A as it looks to build a more human VR avatar
ObEN is a startup launching out of HTC’s new Vive X accelerator that is hoping to craft a more complete digital version of its users so that they can be drawn deeper into VR immersive experiences.
ObEN Closes $7.7 Million Series A Funding
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 3, 2016 – ObEN, Inc. (ObEN), the company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) technology to combine a person's image and voice to create never before possible virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences, today announced the close of its $7.7 million Series A round.
I Don’t Speak Chinese, But My ObEN Digital Doppelganger Does
ObEN wants to transform voice personalization using AI and speech synthesis. I was blown away by my demo.
Oben raises $7.7 million to help you create your virtual self in VR
Oben has raised $7.7 million from Chinese investors so it can put 3D faces in virtual reality.
Pasadena, Calif.-based Oben can take a 2D image and create a 3D virtual head, offering one more way to make virtual reality feel more real and immersive.
Vive X Member ObEN Raises $7.7 Million To Bring Realistic Avatars To VR
HTC announced the first class of 33 companies to join its Vive X accelerator back in July, but has since remained tight-lipped about what those startups have been up to.
HTC’s Vive X VR Accelerator Announces First Class of 33 Companies, VRVCA Expands to $12bn
Back in April we reported that HTC had launched a new virtual reality accelerator named Vive X. Today, the first companies accepted into that program have been revealed.
Caesars Entertainment Showcases WeChat Robot Using ObEN’s Humanized A.I.
Caesars Entertainment introduces “Ben” the WeChat Robot – a virtual concierge – using ObEN’s proprietary speech technology at The LINQ Hotel located at the center of the Las Vegas Strip during the annual Consumer Electronics Show from Jan. 6-9.
For media inquiries, contact press@oben.com
Join The Team
Competitive Salary and Generous Stock Options
We pay top dollar for top talent + frequent bonuses
Lunch, Dinner, Snacks & Bagel Mondays
Never go hungry with company sponsored meals
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Plans
Not feeling well? We got you and your family covered
Open Vacation Policy
No more counting days, take time off when you need to
Submit Papers to Journals
Publish your work and present them at conferences
Weekly Chair Massages and Yoga
Relax those achy muscles and meditate
Flexible Working Hours
We’re an active team with family values
Company Happy Hours, Hikes & Retreats
We love to play together
Stage 1: Phone Interview
Stage 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
Stage 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
Stage 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities
Stage 5: Offer Letter
At ObEN, every team member is also a partner in the company and is responsible for contributing towards the achievement of its Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). If you are not familiar with OKR’s, here’s a good tutorial.
At ObEN we believe that every partner not only works towards the company’s OKR’s but also for their own self. This might include personal priorities such as work/life balance, making more money, filing IP, etc. We take every individual’s preferences into consideration and want to hear about them during the hiring process so the appropriate package is drafted for them.
As part of our extremely refined hiring process, we expect our candidates to submit their OKR’s (candidates will get a sense of it during the initial stages of the hiring process), but also some of their own goals and personal priorities; along with their monetary expectations as well. We believe that having this information prepared will help us create a personalized package for our future partners.
Current Openings
If you are interested in joining the ObEN team send us your resume and/or LinkedIn profile along with a cover letter identifying your five favorite phone apps. careers@oben.me
You can also sign-up to receive ObEN Job Alerts here.
Computer Vision
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the research scientist who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
Responsibilities:
As a member of the computer vision team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Requirements:
- PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- 3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics
- Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts
- High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping
- High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation
- General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision
Pluses:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Deep Learning & NLP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Speech
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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Software Engineering
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for building and extending our APIs (VR/AR/AI) and services for our native iOS/Android applications and mobile/desktop web applications. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for REST-oriented architecture supporting a variety of APIs, web applications, and devices
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, writing APIs, scalability, and maintainability improvements for our innovative platforms
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 3-5+ years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on APIs and web applications
- Production experience working with scalable/distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of Python, Object-Oriented Programming (Java), design patterns, and frameworks
- Experience designing REST APIs and implementing oAuth2 security protocol
- Solid foundation in MySQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Experience with Asynchronous programming
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jira, Jenkins)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and highly scalable multi-tier web applications on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with virtualization technologies like Docker/Vagrant
- Prefer strong experience in UI development with good knowledge of object-oriented Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- Experience with node.js/React/PHP
- Strong experience using Search Engine technologies (Solr/Elasticsearch)
- Experience using Redis
- AWS (EC2, Route53, SNS, SQS)
- CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai)
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the designer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people who understand and respect what you do.
We are looking for a passionate, creative Designer with a strong visual eye and experience designing UI and marketing collateral to shape the brand and design direction for ObEN. You must be a creative, detail-oriented designer with a make-it-happen spirit. Show us your best.
Responsibilities:
- Design experiences that are simple, encouraging, elegant, and intuitive
- Create UI design for all ObEN online and print marketing collateral, including web design, mobile applications and social media email marketing, etc.
- Participate in the design and product life cycle of new UI functionality, enhancements, and branding for ObEN
- Work effectively with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, and Engineers
- Support product team’s visual and branding needs
- Solicit and give open and honest feedback as part of the design process
Requirements:
- BA or BFA in Graphic Design or professional equivalent
- 3-5+ years of experience
- You can conceptualize and offer design solutions while following creative direction
- Mastery of skills with the common tools of the trade (Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, Pen and Paper)
- Good understanding of how to maintain brand consistency with attention to detail, and a solid grasp of the technical requirements for web design
- Must be able to collaborate with and share design concepts to senior management
- A strong design portfolio with a range of UX/UI examples is a must
- Crazy, innovative ideas and having a lot of fun
- Strong knowledge of user-interface, design patterns and best practices for web and mobile apps
- Detail-oriented and highly communicative, with the ability to work independently, think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
- A good sense of humor
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android)
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and implementing infrastructure tools, automating the deployment pipeline, and working with development teams to help build scalable services and software.
ObEN is looking for an experienced, motivated, devops-minded software engineer to join us in maintaining and improving our innovative platform.
Team motto: Standardization, Virtualization, Automation, and Documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Interface with engineering teams to understand code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices for operational tasks
- Be strong in troubleshooting technical issues, communicating and documenting procedures, and recommending architectural changes if necessary
- Provide adequate response to error alerts, ensure proper monitoring implementation and provide solutions to ensure 100% site up time
- Participate in on-call rotation duties for emergency operations
- Be flexible, be team-oriented, have good communications skills, be generally pretty awesome
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- 3-5+ years of experience
- Fluent in a programming language (Python and Java is a plus)
- Must be able to directly communicate with developers on specifications and architecture required to support numerous project/features
- Experience with CDNs (Akamai, Edgecast, Cloudfront, etc)
- Experience with Redis, memcached, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores
- Familiar with SQS, SNS, SES, RabbitMQ
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- MySQL experience is required (Solr or Elasticsearch is a plus)
- Able to discern a network issue vs a system issue
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Proficient with deploying and managing systems utilizing Docker, Jenkins, AWS (Ali Cloud is a plus)
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Knowledgeable with Red Hat package management (rpm and yum, building rpms)
- Able to dissect an existing application stack and convert the configuration of the system and application into an automated process
- Knowledgeable about monitoring tools (New Relic) metrics for performance and building dashboards
- Experience with oAuth2 security protocol, automated security vulnerability and configuration scans
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for building and extending our APIs (VR/AR/AI) and services for our native iOS/Android applications and mobile/desktop web applications. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for REST-oriented architecture supporting a variety of APIs, web applications, and devices
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, writing APIs, scalability, and maintainability improvements for our innovative platforms
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in designing, developing and delivering engaging user experiences on APIs and web applications
- Production experience working with scalable/distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of Python, Object-Oriented Programming (Java), design patterns, and frameworks
- Experience designing REST APIs and implementing oAuth2 security protocol
- Solid foundation in MySQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Experience with Asynchronous programming
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jira, Jenkins)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Ability to develop, maintain and optimize secure and highly scalable multi-tier web applications on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with virtualization technologies like Docker/Vagrant
- Prefer strong experience in UI development with good knowledge of object-oriented Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Pluses:
- Experience with node.js/React/PHP
- Strong experience using Search Engine technologies (Solr/Elasticsearch)
- Experience using Redis
- AWS (EC2, Route53, SNS, SQS)
- CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai)
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. iOS Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and tablets. Your primary focus will be development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and research scientists on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, scalability, and maintainability improvements for the iOS platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5 years of overall software development experience
- 3+ years’ development experience for Apple mobile platforms up to the current iOS 10 SDK
- Strong knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming
- Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
- Proficient with iOS frameworks such as Geofencing, Auto Layout, Core Data, Core Animation and Grand Central Dispatch
- Experience with Objective-C and Swift
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Strong focus on quality and generating results
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
- Experience with developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
- Knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Knowledge of ReactiveCocoa a plus
- Android experience is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by personalizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. QA Engineer is responsible to create and implement quality best practices processes and maintain test automation frameworks, and develop tools to ensure we deliver optimal end user experience for our products. At ObEN, our team always strives to think out side of the box, be innovative and have lots of fun while developing solutions from ground up that contributes directly to the success of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing and implementing build and test infrastructure, creating and enforcing good engineering practices, and evaluating product quality for both internal and external products
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Perform software verification utilizing numerous testing methodologies (regression, stress, etc)
- Create test cases/checklists, requirement traceability and other essential documentation to better facilitate the progression of the project
- Create test automation in conjunction with the engineering team to increase test coverage in a repeatable fashion
- Design test strategies by analyze and dissect complex heavily integrated software systems
- Work closely with product managers and software developers to report defects and verify bug fixes
- Develop sustainable and scalable testing strategies
Requirements:
- 3-5+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- Experience with one of the automated testing suites
- Experience in testing Desktop/Mobile/App both front end and back end
- Knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming knowledge
- Ability to demonstrate coding skills (Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.JS, and LINUX)
- Experience with open source automation tools Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Proven ability to deliver bug free world class systems
- HTML and JavaScript experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented and highly communicative, with the ability to work independently, think critically when solving problems
- Experience with testing both open source and enterprise technologies a plus
- AWS a plus
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you the engineer who wants to be part of disruptive innovation in today’s technology-driven market? Then join our team. ObEN is the leader and truly disrupting Artificial Intelligence by humanizing and transporting your virtual self into any Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environment ($150B industry by 2020). ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and also part of world leading technology incubator Idealab. Come see what it’s like to take on extraordinary transformations every day, in an environment buzzing with smart people (including software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech) who understand and respect what you do.
The Sr. Unity Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of mobile, browser and pc-based applications (VR/AR/AI) and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and research scientists on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. If making a difference in the world while working with fascinating technologies is your kind of fun, then you would love working at ObEN.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build new applications, features, functionality, scalability, and maintainability improvements for the Unity platform
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
- Engage in technical planning, design and code reviews
- Thrive in a supportive, collaborative, yet fast-paced interactive environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 5 years of overall software development experience
- 3+ years’ development experience for Unity applications
- Strong knowledge of Unity, including experience with scripting, shader, plugins, textures, animation, GUI/Canvas styles, and user session management
- Familiarity with level design and planning
- Experience with 3D is a must
- Strong knowledge with Object-Oriented Programming (C#)
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect applications to back-end services
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Strong focus on quality and generating results
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
- Experience with developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
- Proficient with Git (Gitlab/Github)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to think critically when solving problems
- Must be able to gather requirements, design, code and test independently as well as work jointly with the team
- Very comfortable with Agile, Microservices, Test Driven Development and Continuous Delivery methodologies
- Android/iOS experience is a plus
- Experience with Objective-C/Swift is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Introduction to ObEN: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN’s proprietary artificial intelligence technology quickly combines a person’s selfie and voice to create a personalized and realistic 3D virtual avatar. Transport your virtual avatar into virtual reality and augmented reality environments and enjoy deeper, social, more memorable experiences. Founded in 2014, ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and is located in Pasadena, California at leading technology incubator Idealab.
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
contact@oben.me
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我们是一支充满活力的队伍,笃信家庭的价值
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在ObEN, 每一个组员也同时是公司的合伙人,肩负为达成公司“目标和关键成果”(OKRs)做贡献的责任。如果你不熟悉什么是“目标和关键成果”(OKRs),以下是一个不错的简介。
在ObEN,我们认为每一个合伙人不应只为公司的OKRs工作,也应为自己而工作。这表示工作中也要包括个人的意愿,比如,生活工作的平衡,赚更多的钱,申请知识产权等等。我们希望可以在招聘流程中听到每个人对自己发展意向的表述,加以考虑,从而制定出更加合适的待遇提议。
作为我们及其精细的招聘流程中的一部分,我们希望求职者不仅可以提交一份OKRs提议书(面试者会在流程开始时对OKRs是有更多的了解),一份个人目标计划书,连同对薪资待遇的期待值。我们认为这些信息十分重要,可以帮助我们更好的为未来的合作者制定一份个人化的待遇提议。
Current Openings
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计算机视觉
ObEN is also part of HTC Vive’s Accelerator and developing killer applications for VR: http://goo.gl/8oOZte
Responsibilities:
As a member of the virtual avatar team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Must have:
PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics.
Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts.
High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping.
High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation.
General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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机器学习&神经语言规划(NLP)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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软件工程师
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
You will be responsible for working closely with our design/UI/UX team and developing the iOS app which will manage the natural human interfaces for robotics. Sound interesting enough? Read on!
You must have:
- Deep customer empathy and ability to quickly translate insights, whiteboard sessions, napkin sketches and water cooler talks into mockups, wireframes, and working proof-of-concept code
- Expertise in quickly translating design (Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, PNGs) into working iOS code
- Work with our team of scientists and engineers to ensure compatibility with our human interface technology
- Ability to mock out server side dependencies to move fast. Knowledge of server side development processes, tools, and technology is a huge plus
- Get stuff done really fast and smart
Qualifications:
- Hackathon expert
- 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
- Capable of end-to-end product development: Ideation, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Iteration, Deployment, Approval, Support etc.
- Strong experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD):
- Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Ability to prototype really fast and improvise
- Expert knowledge writing Objective-C, Swift and utilizing iOS Frameworks
- Managing a team of developers
- Managing release schedules of Apps
You must have:
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications
- Developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud tech
- Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications
- Experience with various, modern web frameworks
- Android experience is a plus
- Experience working in the trenches of a start-up is a Plus
- Position based out of Pasadena offices. Local candidates preferred.
Great to have:
- No Ego when your ideas or code is scrapped or rejected
- Ability to change direction rapidly after grasping
- Ability to have team rally behind you
- Work long, hard hours in a smart way
- Enjoys team activities and working in an open culture environment with horizontal organizational structure
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers to lead the build of build consumer applications and prototypes which incorporate key technologies developed in-house.
You will: (Either directly or through leadership of other team members)
- Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
- Implement client-server API’s that allow machine interactions with our systems.
- Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
- Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
- Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
- Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
- Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
- Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
- Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
- Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
- Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
- Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.
You must have:
- Experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PHP/Mysql.
- Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
Great to have:
- Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Platforms such as Matlab - Experience with Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for a user experience designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
You will:
- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a lead experience architect
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned
You must have:
- Tangible user experience design experience for software, Web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps on the fly
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Great to have:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android) a plus
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field
- Portfolio to accompany resume
- Background check and reference checks required upon hire
- Location: Pasadena
- Full-time / Part-time / Internship
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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语音分析师
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Speaker Verification Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speaker recognition and verification technology.
Currently, we are interested in Speaker Recognition Scientists with experience in the task of Speaker Verification.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speaker recognition. Preferably, on topics related to speaker verification.
- Solid experience and/or a publication record in the area of speaker recognition.
- Experience or a publication record in speaker verification is a big plus.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics and speech production acoustics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or Linkedin profile
- Links to prominent scientific/professional contributions
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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管理运营
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader with a strong technical background that can lead our talented group of developers. This role will be responsible for the back-end team and mobile app team. We are looking for someone who is highly technical, a heavy coder and is comfortable reviewing code and having spirited debates with the engineers and software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech. This role will report to the Executive team (CTO, COO and CEO).
You will:
- Manage overall technical architecture of company (US, China and beyond)
- Mentor and lead a team of 5-6 back-end and mobile (iOS/Android) engineers and help hire and onboard new engineers.
- Work with the engineers to design and build features that are easy to maintain and scale.
- Establish and drive the best agile development practices within the team.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Identify the bottlenecks within the development process and optimize the productivity of the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders from the Engineering team, Product and Marketing to identify and build features that impact our end users and drive business feature deliveries and platform enhancements.
You must have:
- Must be very comfortable reviewing code and having technical discussions with the engineers.
- Very clear understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and REST principles.
- Must be very comfortable with agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Must be self-directed and thrive in a fast paced and entrepreneurial culture.
- Chinese speaking/ writing/ reading is a big plus
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience managing teams of 5+ back-end engineers or architects.
- Experience with implementation and delivery of large-scale projects using Java, PHP, Python or other languages
- Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites and apps
- Experience with global architecture espcially in China
- 8+ years of development experience.
- 4+ years of management experience.
Great to have:
- You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
- You’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hats.
- You enjoy a variety of tasks and don’t mind switching between projects throughout the day.
- You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage team workflow.
- You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
- You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Join ObEN as a Technical Program Manager and help build innovative applications and custom solutions. You will play a critical role in planning new systems architecture and technical direction for the company’s technology roadmap. You will be working with senior scientists, developers, business partners, and external vendors to ensure high quality deliverables. You will need to have a “roll up your sleeves” approach and “get down in the trenches” in order to jump in to code frequently. Candidates should have a strong software engineering background with the hunger to manage large-scale mission critical applications and web platforms. Sound judgment, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong technical leadership, managing senior technical team and the driving decisions through consensus and influence change are must.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly technical and experienced software engineers.
- Define delivery milestones based on project requirements
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to achieve planned delivery milestones
- Manage multiple projects in different phases of the SDLC
- Drive the analysis and design of systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
- Work with scientists and vendors on defining the scope, milestone, deliverables, and resources needed for the project.
- Plan Agile Sprints working with business partners
- Perform regular design and code reviews and when needed, participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues.
- Lead technical developers; own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance and completeness.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the development teams.
- Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security.
- Maintain company servers as needed
- Do minor programming tasks as needed
You must have:
- BS/MS degree in computer science/EE or equivalent
- Strong understanding of project management principles and processes.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Extensive experience in enterprise systems and software architecture, design, and development and working knowledge of the full SW development lifecycle.
- Experience in managing highly technical teams and mentoring engineers
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented, SOA design concepts, and programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C , PHP
- Experience in platforms such as Matlab
- Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems including mySQL, etc.
- Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities in cross-functional and matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Great to have:
- PHP/MySql programming
- MATLAB
- Digital Signal Processing
- AWS setup/ maintenance
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Job Description
ObEN is looking for a Technical and Solutions Architect to help build our applications at scale globally. This includes enabling innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps w/ technologies like deep learning and machine learning, building web, VR & mobile scale-out applications and coordinating with our customers globally about deploying our applications.You will need to have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. You will be responsible to build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
- 3+ years software/technology customer facing experience
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or AliCloud
- Working knowledge of Chinese language
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Any use cases which demonstrate your work
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN人工智能科技公司,致力于扩增实景和虚拟现实技术,为大众提供更深刻,社交更广泛,记忆更持久的人生体验。于2014年在加州帕萨迪纳的Idealab创意工作室中成立,也是孵化器HTC VIVE X 创速项目的重要伙伴之一。
加利福尼亚,西联合路130号,帕萨迪纳 91103
contact@oben.me
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ObEN’s artificial intelligence technology builds your personalized and realistic virtual identity creating deeper, social, more memorable experiences in augmented reality and virtual reality. Founded in 2014, we are an Idealab portfolio company located in Pasadena, CA and part of HTC’s Vive X Accelerator.
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Live the Imaginable
Creating deeper, social, more memorable experiences
Create your personalized and realistic 3D virtual avatar with just one selfie and a short voice recording, and transport your virtual avatar into any VR, AR and IoT experience.
Press
The World’s Most Watched TV Show Will Be Hosted By Artificial Intelligences
The world's first artificial intelligence (AI) TV hosts will preside over this year's China Central Television (CCTV) New Year's Gala – the world's most-watched TV broadcast.
An audience of over one billion people worldwide is expected to tune into the Chinese state broadcaster’s Spring Festival Gala marking the Chinese lunar new year on February 5. The four well-known human hosts – Beining Sa, Xun Zhu, Bo Gao, and Yang Long – will each be joined by an “AI copy” of themselves – in effect, their very own digital twin.
The "personal artificial intelligences," created by ObEN Inc., are being touted as the world's first AI hosts. Rather than simply being computer generated avatars, AI technologies including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and speech synthesis have been used to "rebuild" the virtual copies of the celebrities from the ground up.
Chinese girl idol group SNH48 creates digital clones built by AI
The four-minute music video, co-produced by Tencent-backed artificial intelligence (AI) start-up ObEN, claims to be the world’s first commercially released song co-starring human singers and their AI 3D avatars.
Create your own avatar twin that talks like you
ObEN CEO Nikhil Jain on the technology that helps people create their own personal avatar twin.
The brave new world of digital humans, designed to do our bidding
“What if there was a copy of me that could interact with my kids and talk to them?” Nikhil Jain asked himself this question, after yet another situation where he was torn between working on his business and being with his family. “Whenever I travel, my kids would miss me a lot because they’re so used to having me around,”
ObEN lands $5M from Tencent and others for AI-powered avatars
ObEN, a startup that is building software to create personalized avatars for celebrities, has raised $5 million in a strategic investment that should help it expand its product into China. The round was led by Chinese tech giant Tencent, with participation from Fengshion Capital and Li Ruigang, the chairman of China Media Capital.
ObEN raises $5M from Tencent to create AI celebrities for AR
The worlds of VR and AR may deeply change how we interact with computers but it may also change how we follow celebrities as well.
New Venture Aims to Create AI-Driven Digital “Copies” of Hollywood Stars
ObEN is reaching out to Hollywood talent agencies with an eye toward creating digital "copies" of actors and celebrities for a variety of uses. For instance, Siri’s voice could be replaced by that of a famous actor or actress. Or a digital version of a popular comedian could greet you on your mobile — or appear in some iteration of virtual, augmented or mixed reality.
How to Save Your Digital Soul
With a selfie and some audio, a startup called ObEN says, it can make you an avatar that can say—or sing—anything. For the past three years, Jain has been working on ObEN, the startup he cofounded and leads.
The Vive Is Getting Its Own Social VR Experience Through WeChat Integration
Facebook released Spaces last week — a virtual reality social experience that lets you meet up...
The next generation of VR enhancements coming to HTC Vive
Wireless multiplayer, better social engagement and eye-tracking technology is almost her. The first year of consumer virtual reality has been exciting, to be sure, but ask anybody in the industry, and they'll tell you that it's only the beginning.
For media inquiries, contact press@oben.com
Join The Team
Competitive Salary and Generous Stock Options
We pay top dollar for top talent + frequent bonuses
Lunch, Dinner, Snacks & Bagel Mondays
Never go hungry with company sponsored meals
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Plans
Not feeling well? We got you and your family covered
Open Vacation Policy
No more counting days, take time off when you need to
Submit Papers to Journals
Publish your work and present them at conferences
Weekly Chair Massages and Yoga
Relax those achy muscles and meditate
Flexible Working Hours
We’re an active team with family values
Company Happy Hours, Hikes & Retreats
We love to play together
Stage 1: Phone Interview
Stage 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
Stage 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
Stage 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities
Stage 5: Offer Letter
At ObEN, every team member is also a partner in the company and is responsible for contributing towards the achievement of its Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). If you are not familiar with OKR’s, here’s a good tutorial.
At ObEN we believe that every partner not only works towards the company’s OKR’s but also for their own self. This might include personal priorities such as work/life balance, making more money, filing IP, etc. We take every individual’s preferences into consideration and want to hear about them during the hiring process so the appropriate package is drafted for them.
As part of our extremely refined hiring process, we expect our candidates to submit their OKR’s (candidates will get a sense of it during the initial stages of the hiring process), but also some of their own goals and personal priorities; along with their monetary expectations as well. We believe that having this information prepared will help us create a personalized package for our future partners.
Current Openings
If you are interested in joining the ObEN team send us your resume and/or LinkedIn profile along with a cover letter identifying your five favorite phone apps. careers@oben.me
You can also sign-up to receive ObEN Job Alerts here.
Computer Vision
ObEN is also part of HTC Vive’s Accelerator and developing killer applications for VR: http://goo.gl/8oOZte
Responsibilities:
As a member of the virtual avatar team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Must have:
PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics.
Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts.
High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping.
High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation.
General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Machine Learning & NLP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Software Engineering
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
You will be responsible for working closely with our design/UI/UX team and developing the iOS app which will manage the natural human interfaces for robotics. Sound interesting enough? Read on!
You must have:
- Deep customer empathy and ability to quickly translate insights, whiteboard sessions, napkin sketches and water cooler talks into mockups, wireframes, and working proof-of-concept code
- Expertise in quickly translating design (Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, PNGs) into working iOS code
- Work with our team of scientists and engineers to ensure compatibility with our human interface technology
- Ability to mock out server side dependencies to move fast. Knowledge of server side development processes, tools, and technology is a huge plus
- Get stuff done really fast and smart
Qualifications:
- Hackathon expert
- 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
- Capable of end-to-end product development: Ideation, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Iteration, Deployment, Approval, Support etc.
- Strong experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD):
- Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Ability to prototype really fast and improvise
- Expert knowledge writing Objective-C, Swift and utilizing iOS Frameworks
- Managing a team of developers
- Managing release schedules of Apps
You must have:
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications
- Developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud tech
- Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications
- Experience with various, modern web frameworks
- Android experience is a plus
- Experience working in the trenches of a start-up is a Plus
- Position based out of Pasadena offices. Local candidates preferred.
Great to have:
- No Ego when your ideas or code is scrapped or rejected
- Ability to change direction rapidly after grasping
- Ability to have team rally behind you
- Work long, hard hours in a smart way
- Enjoys team activities and working in an open culture environment with horizontal organizational structure
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers to lead the build of build consumer applications and prototypes which incorporate key technologies developed in-house.
You will: (Either directly or through leadership of other team members)
- Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
- Implement client-server API’s that allow machine interactions with our systems.
- Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
- Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
- Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
- Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
- Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
- Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
- Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
- Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
- Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
- Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.
You must have:
- Experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PHP/Mysql.
- Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
Great to have:
- Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Platforms such as Matlab - Experience with Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for a user experience designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
You will:
- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a lead experience architect
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned
You must have:
- Tangible user experience design experience for software, Web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps on the fly
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Great to have:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android) a plus
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field
- Portfolio to accompany resume
- Background check and reference checks required upon hire
- Location: Pasadena
- Full-time / Part-time / Internship
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Speech
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Speaker Verification Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speaker recognition and verification technology.
Currently, we are interested in Speaker Recognition Scientists with experience in the task of Speaker Verification.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speaker recognition. Preferably, on topics related to speaker verification.
- Solid experience and/or a publication record in the area of speaker recognition.
- Experience or a publication record in speaker verification is a big plus.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics and speech production acoustics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or Linkedin profile
- Links to prominent scientific/professional contributions
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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General
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader with a strong technical background that can lead our talented group of developers. This role will be responsible for the back-end team and mobile app team. We are looking for someone who is highly technical, a heavy coder and is comfortable reviewing code and having spirited debates with the engineers and software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech. This role will report to the Executive team (CTO, COO and CEO).
You will:
- Manage overall technical architecture of company (US, China and beyond)
- Mentor and lead a team of 5-6 back-end and mobile (iOS/Android) engineers and help hire and onboard new engineers.
- Work with the engineers to design and build features that are easy to maintain and scale.
- Establish and drive the best agile development practices within the team.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Identify the bottlenecks within the development process and optimize the productivity of the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders from the Engineering team, Product and Marketing to identify and build features that impact our end users and drive business feature deliveries and platform enhancements.
You must have:
- Must be very comfortable reviewing code and having technical discussions with the engineers.
- Very clear understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and REST principles.
- Must be very comfortable with agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Must be self-directed and thrive in a fast paced and entrepreneurial culture.
- Chinese speaking/ writing/ reading is a big plus
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience managing teams of 5+ back-end engineers or architects.
- Experience with implementation and delivery of large-scale projects using Java, PHP, Python or other languages
- Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites and apps
- Experience with global architecture espcially in China
- 8+ years of development experience.
- 4+ years of management experience.
Great to have:
- You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
- You’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hats.
- You enjoy a variety of tasks and don’t mind switching between projects throughout the day.
- You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage team workflow.
- You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
- You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Join ObEN as a Technical Program Manager and help build innovative applications and custom solutions. You will play a critical role in planning new systems architecture and technical direction for the company’s technology roadmap. You will be working with senior scientists, developers, business partners, and external vendors to ensure high quality deliverables. You will need to have a “roll up your sleeves” approach and “get down in the trenches” in order to jump in to code frequently. Candidates should have a strong software engineering background with the hunger to manage large-scale mission critical applications and web platforms. Sound judgment, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong technical leadership, managing senior technical team and the driving decisions through consensus and influence change are must.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly technical and experienced software engineers.
- Define delivery milestones based on project requirements
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to achieve planned delivery milestones
- Manage multiple projects in different phases of the SDLC
- Drive the analysis and design of systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
- Work with scientists and vendors on defining the scope, milestone, deliverables, and resources needed for the project.
- Plan Agile Sprints working with business partners
- Perform regular design and code reviews and when needed, participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues.
- Lead technical developers; own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance and completeness.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the development teams.
- Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security.
- Maintain company servers as needed
- Do minor programming tasks as needed
You must have:
- BS/MS degree in computer science/EE or equivalent
- Strong understanding of project management principles and processes.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Extensive experience in enterprise systems and software architecture, design, and development and working knowledge of the full SW development lifecycle.
- Experience in managing highly technical teams and mentoring engineers
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented, SOA design concepts, and programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C , PHP
- Experience in platforms such as Matlab
- Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems including mySQL, etc.
- Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities in cross-functional and matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Great to have:
- PHP/MySql programming
- MATLAB
- Digital Signal Processing
- AWS setup/ maintenance
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Job Description
ObEN is looking for a Technical and Solutions Architect to help build our applications at scale globally. This includes enabling innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps w/ technologies like deep learning and machine learning, building web, VR & mobile scale-out applications and coordinating with our customers globally about deploying our applications.You will need to have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. You will be responsible to build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
- 3+ years software/technology customer facing experience
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or AliCloud
- Working knowledge of Chinese language
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Any use cases which demonstrate your work
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN’s proprietary artificial intelligence technology quickly combines a person’s selfie and voice to create a personalized and realistic 3D virtual avatar. Transport your virtual avatar into virtual reality and augmented reality environments and enjoy deeper, social, more memorable experiences. Founded in 2014, ObEN is an HTC VIVE X portfolio company and is located in Pasadena, California at leading technology incubator Idealab.
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
contact@oben.me
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HTC Vive X 创速项目(Vive X VR Accelerator)宣布第一批入选的33所公司名单,同时旗下虚拟现实风险投资联盟(VRVCA)可投资资本规模扩大至120亿美元
四月时我们曾报道,HTC启动了一项新项目,名为Vive X速创,致力于推动虚拟现实技术公司发展。今天,第一批参与该项目的公司名单终于揭晓。

凯撒娱乐集团向公众展示微信智能机器人,它使用的正是ObEN 的拟人化人工智能技术。
今年1月6-9号的年度消费电子产品展会上,凯撒娱乐集团在拉斯维加斯大道中心地段、旗下凝酷酒店(The LINQ Hotel Las Vegas)向公众展示微信机器人”Ben”—一个虚拟的礼宾部接待员。”Ben”使用的正是ObEN专利开发的语音技术。
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Join The Team
极具竞争力的薪金水平和诱人的股权员工计划
我们不吝为最优秀的人才开出最高的薪资+经常性的红利
午餐,晚餐,零食&百吉圈(Bagel)周一
公司提供周全的饮食,你永远不会饿肚子
医疗保险,口腔和眼睛保健,401K养老计划
身体不舒服?我们会照顾好你和你的家人
开放式假期制度
不用再数日子,需要的时候就请假吧
向专业期刊提交论文
发表你的科研成果,并在研讨会上展示
每周坐式按摩和瑜伽课
放松酸痛的肌肉,陷入冥想
灵活的工作时间
我们是一支充满活力的队伍,笃信家庭的价值
公司欢乐时光,徒步&短期出游
我们享受一起玩乐的时光
在ObEN, 每一个组员也同时是公司的合伙人,肩负为达成公司“目标和关键成果”(OKRs)做贡献的责任。如果你不熟悉什么是“目标和关键成果”(OKRs),以下是一个不错的简介。
在ObEN,我们认为每一个合伙人不应只为公司的OKRs工作,也应为自己而工作。这表示工作中也要包括个人的意愿,比如,生活工作的平衡,赚更多的钱,申请知识产权等等。我们希望可以在招聘流程中听到每个人对自己发展意向的表述,加以考虑,从而制定出更加合适的待遇提议。
作为我们及其精细的招聘流程中的一部分,我们希望求职者不仅可以提交一份OKRs提议书(面试者会在流程开始时对OKRs是有更多的了解),一份个人目标计划书,连同对薪资待遇的期待值。我们认为这些信息十分重要,可以帮助我们更好的为未来的合作者制定一份个人化的待遇提议。
Current Openings
如果你对加入ObEN 团队感兴趣,请发送你的个人简历和/或你的领英资料,一份求职意向书(请注明你最喜欢的五个手机软件)至 careers@oben.me
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计算机视觉
ObEN is also part of HTC Vive’s Accelerator and developing killer applications for VR: http://goo.gl/8oOZte
Responsibilities:
As a member of the virtual avatar team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Must have:
PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics.
Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts.
High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping.
High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation.
General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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机器学习&神经语言规划(NLP)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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软件工程师
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
You will be responsible for working closely with our design/UI/UX team and developing the iOS app which will manage the natural human interfaces for robotics. Sound interesting enough? Read on!
You must have:
- Deep customer empathy and ability to quickly translate insights, whiteboard sessions, napkin sketches and water cooler talks into mockups, wireframes, and working proof-of-concept code
- Expertise in quickly translating design (Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, PNGs) into working iOS code
- Work with our team of scientists and engineers to ensure compatibility with our human interface technology
- Ability to mock out server side dependencies to move fast. Knowledge of server side development processes, tools, and technology is a huge plus
- Get stuff done really fast and smart
Qualifications:
- Hackathon expert
- 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
- Capable of end-to-end product development: Ideation, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Iteration, Deployment, Approval, Support etc.
- Strong experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD):
- Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Ability to prototype really fast and improvise
- Expert knowledge writing Objective-C, Swift and utilizing iOS Frameworks
- Managing a team of developers
- Managing release schedules of Apps
You must have:
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications
- Developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud tech
- Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications
- Experience with various, modern web frameworks
- Android experience is a plus
- Experience working in the trenches of a start-up is a Plus
- Position based out of Pasadena offices. Local candidates preferred.
Great to have:
- No Ego when your ideas or code is scrapped or rejected
- Ability to change direction rapidly after grasping
- Ability to have team rally behind you
- Work long, hard hours in a smart way
- Enjoys team activities and working in an open culture environment with horizontal organizational structure
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers to lead the build of build consumer applications and prototypes which incorporate key technologies developed in-house.
You will: (Either directly or through leadership of other team members)
- Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
- Implement client-server API’s that allow machine interactions with our systems.
- Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
- Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
- Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
- Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
- Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
- Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
- Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
- Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
- Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
- Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.
You must have:
- Experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PHP/Mysql.
- Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
Great to have:
- Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Platforms such as Matlab - Experience with Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for a user experience designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
You will:
- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a lead experience architect
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned
You must have:
- Tangible user experience design experience for software, Web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps on the fly
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Great to have:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android) a plus
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field
- Portfolio to accompany resume
- Background check and reference checks required upon hire
- Location: Pasadena
- Full-time / Part-time / Internship
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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语音分析师
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Speaker Verification Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speaker recognition and verification technology.
Currently, we are interested in Speaker Recognition Scientists with experience in the task of Speaker Verification.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speaker recognition. Preferably, on topics related to speaker verification.
- Solid experience and/or a publication record in the area of speaker recognition.
- Experience or a publication record in speaker verification is a big plus.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics and speech production acoustics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or Linkedin profile
- Links to prominent scientific/professional contributions
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader with a strong technical background that can lead our talented group of developers. This role will be responsible for the back-end team and mobile app team. We are looking for someone who is highly technical, a heavy coder and is comfortable reviewing code and having spirited debates with the engineers and software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech. This role will report to the Executive team (CTO, COO and CEO).
You will:
- Manage overall technical architecture of company (US, China and beyond)
- Mentor and lead a team of 5-6 back-end and mobile (iOS/Android) engineers and help hire and onboard new engineers.
- Work with the engineers to design and build features that are easy to maintain and scale.
- Establish and drive the best agile development practices within the team.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Identify the bottlenecks within the development process and optimize the productivity of the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders from the Engineering team, Product and Marketing to identify and build features that impact our end users and drive business feature deliveries and platform enhancements.
You must have:
- Must be very comfortable reviewing code and having technical discussions with the engineers.
- Very clear understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and REST principles.
- Must be very comfortable with agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Must be self-directed and thrive in a fast paced and entrepreneurial culture.
- Chinese speaking/ writing/ reading is a big plus
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience managing teams of 5+ back-end engineers or architects.
- Experience with implementation and delivery of large-scale projects using Java, PHP, Python or other languages
- Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites and apps
- Experience with global architecture espcially in China
- 8+ years of development experience.
- 4+ years of management experience.
Great to have:
- You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
- You’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hats.
- You enjoy a variety of tasks and don’t mind switching between projects throughout the day.
- You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage team workflow.
- You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
- You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Your responsibilities:
Join ObEN as a Technical Program Manager and help build innovative applications and custom solutions. You will play a critical role in planning new systems architecture and technical direction for the company’s technology roadmap. You will be working with senior scientists, developers, business partners, and external vendors to ensure high quality deliverables. You will need to have a “roll up your sleeves” approach and “get down in the trenches” in order to jump in to code frequently. Candidates should have a strong software engineering background with the hunger to manage large-scale mission critical applications and web platforms. Sound judgment, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong technical leadership, managing senior technical team and the driving decisions through consensus and influence change are must.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly technical and experienced software engineers.
- Define delivery milestones based on project requirements
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to achieve planned delivery milestones
- Manage multiple projects in different phases of the SDLC
- Drive the analysis and design of systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
- Work with scientists and vendors on defining the scope, milestone, deliverables, and resources needed for the project.
- Plan Agile Sprints working with business partners
- Perform regular design and code reviews and when needed, participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues.
- Lead technical developers; own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance and completeness.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the development teams.
- Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security.
- Maintain company servers as needed
- Do minor programming tasks as needed
You must have:
- BS/MS degree in computer science/EE or equivalent
- Strong understanding of project management principles and processes.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Extensive experience in enterprise systems and software architecture, design, and development and working knowledge of the full SW development lifecycle.
- Experience in managing highly technical teams and mentoring engineers
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented, SOA design concepts, and programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C , PHP
- Experience in platforms such as Matlab
- Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems including mySQL, etc.
- Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities in cross-functional and matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Great to have:
- PHP/MySql programming
- MATLAB
- Digital Signal Processing
- AWS setup/ maintenance
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Job Description
ObEN is looking for a Technical and Solutions Architect to help build our applications at scale globally. This includes enabling innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps w/ technologies like deep learning and machine learning, building web, VR & mobile scale-out applications and coordinating with our customers globally about deploying our applications.You will need to have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. You will be responsible to build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
- 3+ years software/technology customer facing experience
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or AliCloud
- Working knowledge of Chinese language
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Any use cases which demonstrate your work
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN人工智能科技公司,致力于扩增实景和虚拟现实技术,为大众提供更深刻,社交更广泛,记忆更持久的人生体验。于2014年在加州帕萨迪纳的Idealab创意工作室中成立,也是孵化器HTC VIVE X 创速项目的重要伙伴之一。
加利福尼亚,西联合路130号,帕萨迪纳 91103
contact@oben.me
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HTC’s Vive X VR Accelerator Announces First Class of 33 Companies, VRVCA Expands to $12bn
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Caesars Entertainment Showcases WeChat Robot Using ObEN’s Humanized A.I.
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Competitive Salary and Generous Stock Options
We pay top dollar for top talent + frequent bonuses
Lunch, Dinner, Snacks & Bagel Mondays
Never go hungry with company sponsored meals
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K Plans
Not feeling well? We got you and your family covered
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We’re an active team with family values
Company Happy Hours, Hikes & Retreats
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Stage 1: Phone Interview
Stage 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
Stage 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
Stage 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities
Stage 5: Offer Letter
At ObEN, every team member is also a partner in the company and is responsible for contributing towards the achievement of its Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). If you are not familiar with OKR’s, here’s a good tutorial.
At ObEN we believe that every partner not only works towards the company’s OKR’s but also for their own self. This might include personal priorities such as work/life balance, making more money, filing IP, etc. We take every individual’s preferences into consideration and want to hear about them during the hiring process so the appropriate package is drafted for them.
As part of our extremely refined hiring process, we expect our candidates to submit their OKR’s (candidates will get a sense of it during the initial stages of the hiring process), but also some of their own goals and personal priorities; along with their monetary expectations as well. We believe that having this information prepared will help us create a personalized package for our future partners.
Current Openings
If you are interested in joining the ObEN team send us your resume and/or LinkedIn profile along with a cover letter identifying your five favorite phone apps. careers@oben.me
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Computer Vision
ObEN is also part of HTC Vive’s Accelerator and developing killer applications for VR: http://goo.gl/8oOZte
Responsibilities:
As a member of the virtual avatar team, you will design, implement and test a complete pipeline to reconstruct and animate virtual avatars of people using commodity RGB cameras.
Ability and passion to work with teams in a fast-paced, open-table culture start-up company is important.
Must have:
PhD/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years of experience in computer vision and computer graphics.
Strong understanding of basic computer vision and computer graphics concepts.
High proficiency in scripting languages, e.g., MATLAB, Python, for fast prototyping.
High proficiency in C/C++ for fast implementation.
General software development skills, including version control, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
Experience in 3D modeling, especially full human body, face and hand modeling.
Experience in object segmentation and human pose estimation from images.
Experience in OpenGL or WebGL.
Experience in speech animation.
Experience in using 3D graphics/animation softwares, e.g., Maya, Blender, Unity, etc.
Experience in development on VR platforms, e.g., HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, etc.
Publication record in top computer vision/graphics conferences, e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, etc.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
Any code you are proud of and is public
Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Machine Learning & NLP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the deep learning team, you will design, develop, configure and optimize deep neural networks for various tasks such as detection and classification.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Econometrics
- High proficiency in C++, Python and/or Java
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
Great to have:
- Proficiency in Torch, Theano, Caffe
- Top-tier publications (NIPS, PAMI, CVPR etc.) or proven successful industry experience
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a member of the machine language translation team, you utilize your superior technical aptitude and deep understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to create the best Machine Translation solutions for our algorithms. You should be comfortable to also work with a wide array of teams in areas of wellness, healthcare, marketing, business development, psychology, design, user experience and product development.
Ability to work fast with teams in an open-table company culture is important.
You must have:
- PhD, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
- High proficiency in C++.
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
Great to have:
- Experience with automatic speech recognition and/or natural language processing systems.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers. Provide technical expertise to address supervised and unsupervised learning problems in an applied research and development environment. Develop & deploys modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.) for finding patterns/models from audio signals. Familiarity with large data sets, cloud based development and deployment, open source practices and frameworks and experience in putting an application into production is desirable.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise and execution know-how to the design of machine learning algorithms/solutions to solve ultra-challenging problems
- Determine methodologies needed; apply such methodologies (e.g. neural nets, CART, Bayesian methods, etc.) on speech processing and related research domains.
- Define data needs, evaluate data quality, perform and critique appropriate statistical analyses using software such as R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore, determine & develop technical approaches to be used and apply them on major challenges
- Interface closely with Oben Business counterparts to understand/define requirements, domain knowledge/models, and data needs.
- Effectively communicate technical analyses and results.
- Work with offshore and in-house technical and business teams
You must have:
- Doctorate (Preferred) or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Applied Statistics or in Engineering.
- Foundation in theories underlying machine learning techniques
- Advanced knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing
- Ability to apply theoretical or experiential knowledge on machine learning to solve problems
- Experience in developing machine learning packages with programming languages such as Java, Python, C++
- Experience with PhP/MySql
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Great to have:
- Experience with designing and prototyping algorithms on different kinds of data.
- Experience in applying machine learning to different kinds of problems
- Knowledgeable with relational databases & SQL concepts and Compute platforms like Matlab.
- Interest/Experience in large data sets, cloud based architectures and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms. Open source efforts in machine learning.
- Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated reputation including publications / development / deployment experience.
- Excellent teamwork and customer focus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results under deadline.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Flexibility of working across all functions/levels as part of a team.
- Interest in working for a young company
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Your responsibilities:
- Build, Improve and extend NLP capabilities.
- Research and evaluate new/different approaches to NLP problems.
- Produce deliverable results and take them from development to production in collaboration with our engineers.
You must have:
- Strong Machine Learning background and familiarity with R, WEKA, RapidMiner, etc.
- Expertise in at least 3 of the following: Sentiment Analysis, Entity Extraction, Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization,
POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level. - Strong knowledge of Java or Python, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Expertise in producing, processing, evaluating and utilizing training data.
- Ability to collaborate with bigger teams and excellent communication skills
- MSc./PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields from top tier university
Great to have:
- Good understanding of linguistics and language as a phenomenon.
- Strong interest in, and knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its subfields.
- Experience with non-English NLP.
- Experience with Deep Learning and Word Embeddings.
- Experience with open-source NLP toolkits such as CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, gensim, LingPipe, Mallet, etc.
- Experience with open-source ML/math toolkits such as scikit-learn, MLlib, Theano, NumPy, etc.
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data (e.g. tweets)
- Published work in academic conferences/journals or industry circles.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Software Engineering
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
You will be responsible for working closely with our design/UI/UX team and developing the iOS app which will manage the natural human interfaces for robotics. Sound interesting enough? Read on!
You must have:
- Deep customer empathy and ability to quickly translate insights, whiteboard sessions, napkin sketches and water cooler talks into mockups, wireframes, and working proof-of-concept code
- Expertise in quickly translating design (Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, PNGs) into working iOS code
- Work with our team of scientists and engineers to ensure compatibility with our human interface technology
- Ability to mock out server side dependencies to move fast. Knowledge of server side development processes, tools, and technology is a huge plus
- Get stuff done really fast and smart
Qualifications:
- Hackathon expert
- 6+ years experience developing web, software, or mobile applications
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent
- Capable of end-to-end product development: Ideation, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Iteration, Deployment, Approval, Support etc.
- Strong experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages (OOD):
- Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- 2+ years experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST or SOAP
- Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Ability to prototype really fast and improvise
- Expert knowledge writing Objective-C, Swift and utilizing iOS Frameworks
- Managing a team of developers
- Managing release schedules of Apps
You must have:
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications
- Developing, deploying and maintaining large scale consumer apps on AWS or other cloud tech
- Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications
- Experience with various, modern web frameworks
- Android experience is a plus
- Experience working in the trenches of a start-up is a Plus
- Position based out of Pasadena offices. Local candidates preferred.
Great to have:
- No Ego when your ideas or code is scrapped or rejected
- Ability to change direction rapidly after grasping
- Ability to have team rally behind you
- Work long, hard hours in a smart way
- Enjoys team activities and working in an open culture environment with horizontal organizational structure
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior machine learning researchers, engineers and speech processing researchers to lead the build of build consumer applications and prototypes which incorporate key technologies developed in-house.
You will: (Either directly or through leadership of other team members)
- Develop highly secure service oriented architecture (SOA) to properly manage and deliver our content leveraging open source stacks.
- Implement client-server API’s that allow machine interactions with our systems.
- Work with third-party partners to achieve smooth interoperability with our system.
- Participate in a highly visible software development and quality assurance process.
- Work with the IT department to manage deployments and upgrades.
- Work with the Design team to implement user interface requirements and to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
- Work with team and managers to help define software release products and development cycles.
- Deliver clear documentation of requirements and system software, development tools, and other support systems and infrastructure. Will also create clear documented test results, and participate in software readiness reviews.
- Experienced with agile development methodologies like Scrum.
- Commitment to software development practices like design patterns, defensive programming, and unit testing.
- Desire to design and implement solutions with significant data dependencies with NoSQL platforms in addition to traditional relational database platforms when appropriate.
- Knowledge of map-reduce, preferably using the Hadoop platform.
- Understanding of asynchronous event driven architectures.
- Ability to collaboratively architect high-availability and high-scalability systems.
You must have:
- Experience with relevant tools and platforms, such as Java, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, HTML5, PHP/Mysql.
- Technical expertise in web systems architecture, design, maintenance, administration and development on the Linux platform.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
Great to have:
- Knowledgeable about information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Platforms such as Matlab - Experience with Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning
- Experience in coding for Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Pasadena, CA.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for a user experience designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user interfaces and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
You will:
- Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Collaborating on user experience planning with a lead experience architect
- Researching interaction design trends
- Researching technology trends
- Performing other duties as assigned
You must have:
- Tangible user experience design experience for software, Web applications which leverage emergent technologies, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique
- Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail
- Ability to create wireframes as well as visual design comps on the fly
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools
- Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Great to have:
- 3D modeling, VR/AR development, After Effects, rendering and animation
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Rails, JavaScript/JQuery, ObjectiveC (iOS), C++ (Android) a plus
- Motion graphics design and production
- Video and sound editing
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field
- Portfolio to accompany resume
- Background check and reference checks required upon hire
- Location: Pasadena
- Full-time / Part-time / Internship
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Speech
Overall responsibility
We are seeking to add a linguist specialist to our development team, who will be responsible for developing and maintaining the text analysis components in multiple languages. You will develop grammars and lexica for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.
Key areas of responsibility
– Developing, testing, releasing, and maintaining new language-specific
components needed to analyze texts (including definite clause grammars,
lexica, finite state transducers)
– Version control of text analysis components
– Testing and integrating new development tools
– Documentation and reporting of the progress
– Build-up of language knowledge
Term of employment
Full-time
Qualifications
– Higher education degree in linguistics and 1+ years of experience with
programming, or alternatively a degree in computer science or electrical
engineering and 3+ years experience in linguistics
– Strong interest in text normalization, morpho-syntactic analysis, phonetics,
and building of working systems based on a solid theoretical principles
– Confident use of programming in Python, or scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk or Perl
– Native speaker, or professional knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and English.
– Highly motivated to learn additional languages.
– Excellent communication skills
– Experience in speech synthesis technology is a plus
– Expertise in additional languages (Japanese, Korean, Spanish) is a plus
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
As a Speech Recognition Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speech recognition engine.
Currently, we are mainly interested in candidates with experience in ASR for Chinese language. Experience in English and/or Spanish is a big plus.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing or machine learning.
- Solid experience building ASR systems (Chinese) and/or a publication record in the area.
- Solid experience with Kaldi.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Speaker Verification Research Scientist at ObEN, you’ll be working on several proprietary and stealthy projects in the audio space. Your work will encompass the whole scope of application development, including speech research, voice interface design, application prototyping, and development of our proprietary speaker recognition and verification technology.
Currently, we are interested in Speaker Recognition Scientists with experience in the task of Speaker Verification.
You must have:
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Mathematics with specialization in speaker recognition. Preferably, on topics related to speaker verification.
- Solid experience and/or a publication record in the area of speaker recognition.
- Experience or a publication record in speaker verification is a big plus.
- Strong machine learning background and familiar with standard statistical modeling techniques applied to speech.
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics and speech production acoustics.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment.
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or Linkedin profile
- Links to prominent scientific/professional contributions
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
This position is concerned with research and development in advanced speech synthesis. The work will have a particular focus on the development of structured acoustic models which take account of factors such as accent and speaking style, and on the development of machine learning techniques for vocoding. You will have a PhD in speech processing, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. You will have the necessary programming ability to conduct research in this area, a background in statistical modelling using Hidden Markov Models, DNN, RNN, speech signal processing, and research experience in speech synthesis.
A background in one or more of the following areas is also desirable: statistical parametric text-to-speech synthesis using HMMs and HSMMs; glottal source modelling; speech signal modelling; speaker adaptation using the MLLR or MAP family of techniques; familiarity with software tools including DNN, Deep Learning, RNN, HTK, HTS, Festival; and familiarity with modern machine learning.
You will:
- Develop and extend speech synthesis technologies in Oben’s proprietary speech synthesis system, in view of the realisation of prosody and voice quality modifications;
- Develop and apply algorithms to annotate prosody and voice quality in expressive speech synthesis corpora
- Carry out a listener evaluation study of expressive synthetic speech.
You must have:
- PhD (Prefered), M.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- High proficiency in C++, Python, Java, Matlab
- Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods.
- Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with minimal supervision.
- Experience with speech synthesis
Great to have:
- Familiarity with linguistic phonetics.
- Knowledge of basic digital signal processing techniques for audio.
- Experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, and source control.
- Proficiency in Java/Android, Objective C/iOS, javascript, C#/Unity3D.
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process:
STAGE 1: Phone Interview
STAGE 2: In-person Interview at Idealab (we cover travel expenses for the day)
STAGE 3: We require a sample project submission and a candidate proposal submission
(To know more about what an ObEN candidate proposal is, click here)
STAGE 4: Spend a day at our office and participate in all team activities.
STAGE 5: Offer Letter
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General
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader with a strong technical background that can lead our talented group of developers. This role will be responsible for the back-end team and mobile app team. We are looking for someone who is highly technical, a heavy coder and is comfortable reviewing code and having spirited debates with the engineers and software architects as well as with our team of world class scientists in areas of NLP, deep learning and speech. This role will report to the Executive team (CTO, COO and CEO).
You will:
- Manage overall technical architecture of company (US, China and beyond)
- Mentor and lead a team of 5-6 back-end and mobile (iOS/Android) engineers and help hire and onboard new engineers.
- Work with the engineers to design and build features that are easy to maintain and scale.
- Establish and drive the best agile development practices within the team.
- Ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Identify the bottlenecks within the development process and optimize the productivity of the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders from the Engineering team, Product and Marketing to identify and build features that impact our end users and drive business feature deliveries and platform enhancements.
You must have:
- Must be very comfortable reviewing code and having technical discussions with the engineers.
- Very clear understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and REST principles.
- Must be very comfortable with agile and Test Driven Development methodologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, event-driven architectures and NoSQL stores.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Must be self-directed and thrive in a fast paced and entrepreneurial culture.
- Chinese speaking/ writing/ reading is a big plus
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience managing teams of 5+ back-end engineers or architects.
- Experience with implementation and delivery of large-scale projects using Java, PHP, Python or other languages
- Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites and apps
- Experience with global architecture espcially in China
- 8+ years of development experience.
- 4+ years of management experience.
Great to have:
- You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
- You’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hats.
- You enjoy a variety of tasks and don’t mind switching between projects throughout the day.
- You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage team workflow.
- You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
- You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Your responsibilities:
Join ObEN as a Technical Program Manager and help build innovative applications and custom solutions. You will play a critical role in planning new systems architecture and technical direction for the company’s technology roadmap. You will be working with senior scientists, developers, business partners, and external vendors to ensure high quality deliverables. You will need to have a “roll up your sleeves” approach and “get down in the trenches” in order to jump in to code frequently. Candidates should have a strong software engineering background with the hunger to manage large-scale mission critical applications and web platforms. Sound judgment, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong technical leadership, managing senior technical team and the driving decisions through consensus and influence change are must.
You will:
- Manage a team of highly technical and experienced software engineers.
- Define delivery milestones based on project requirements
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to achieve planned delivery milestones
- Manage multiple projects in different phases of the SDLC
- Drive the analysis and design of systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
- Work with scientists and vendors on defining the scope, milestone, deliverables, and resources needed for the project.
- Plan Agile Sprints working with business partners
- Perform regular design and code reviews and when needed, participate in debugging and coding to resolve issues.
- Lead technical developers; own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance and completeness.
- Keep up to date with latest technologies and tools and evangelize their value within the development teams.
- Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security.
- Maintain company servers as needed
- Do minor programming tasks as needed
You must have:
- BS/MS degree in computer science/EE or equivalent
- Strong understanding of project management principles and processes.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Extensive experience in enterprise systems and software architecture, design, and development and working knowledge of the full SW development lifecycle.
- Experience in managing highly technical teams and mentoring engineers
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented, SOA design concepts, and programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C , PHP
- Experience in platforms such as Matlab
- Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems including mySQL, etc.
- Well versed with the use of XML, JSON and REST services.
- Ability to multi-task and manage tasks with varying priorities in cross-functional and matrix organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Great to have:
- PHP/MySql programming
- MATLAB
- Digital Signal Processing
- AWS setup/ maintenance
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Links to any research / papers you have been an instrumental part of and are proud of
- Name of instructor / adviser, if any along with link to their profile
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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Job Description
ObEN is looking for a Technical and Solutions Architect to help build our applications at scale globally. This includes enabling innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps w/ technologies like deep learning and machine learning, building web, VR & mobile scale-out applications and coordinating with our customers globally about deploying our applications.You will need to have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. You will be responsible to build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
- 3+ years software/technology customer facing experience
- Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or AliCloud
- Working knowledge of Chinese language
Term of employment
Full-time
Application Requirements
Please send the following to careers@oben.me
- Detailed resume and/or LinkedIn profile
- Any code you are proud of and is public
- Any use cases which demonstrate your work
- Cover Letter identifying your five favorite apps on your phone
Interview process: https://goo.gl/gxpxwT
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ObEN’s artificial intelligence technology builds your personalized and realistic virtual identity creating deeper, social, more memorable experiences in augmented reality and virtual reality. Founded in 2014, we are an Idealab portfolio company located in Pasadena, CA and part of HTC’s Vive X Accelerator.
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
contact@oben.me
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