Research Engineer

The Research & Innovation (R&I) team at Inter Digital includes more than 250 researchers and engineers with world‑class expertise in AI, wireless communications, and visual technologies. Our culture values technology expertise and an entrepreneurial mindset. Within R&I, the London Video Team is leading efforts in machine learning and deep learning to build the next generation of AI‑driven video compression models. We are seeking a research engineer who will work to research, design, implement and optimize these models.

• Bachelor or Master (PhD a plus) in Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning or Computer Science
• Some mixture of background in Mathematics or Physics with Machine Learning or Computer Science
• Experience researching, developing and training deep learning models, either in PyTorch or JAX
• Nice to have Publications, patents, or significant open‑source contributions in relevant areas are a plus
• 2+ years of relevant research experience in machine learning or computer vision a plus

• Research, prototype and evaluate novel neural architectures for AI‑based video compression and next generation video coding models
• Produce high quality research outputs and patentable innovations in AI‑based video compression and video coding, working closely with internal IP teams to capture and protect novel ideas
• Design, implement and maintain training, evaluation and benchmarking pipelines for video compression models, including metrics and datasets
• Collaborate and communicate research ideas within your team and more widely across teams to non‑technical colleagues
• Work on proof‑of‑concept projects with various teams and incorporate successful approaches into larger platforms and demonstrators
• Stay current with advances in machine learning, deep learning and video coding research and help bring relevant ideas into Inter Digital projects
• Represent the company, promote and defend proposals from the company, through standard contributions, top academic conferences and scientific journals

Location:

London, UK

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