Job Description

Company Description

Mavrx uses aerial imaging to bring the benefits of big data to the $1 Trillion agriculture industry. With our easy-to-use web and mobile interfaces, growers get real-time information on their entire farm without having to physically walk the fields. Using frequent imagery (from drones, planes, & satellites), and proprietary crop-specific analytics, we measure plant health and identify issues before they are visible to the naked eye.

Job Description

We are looking for a self directed, critically minded engineer/scientist/statistician to develop and maintain test suites for a line of machine vision and biometrics estimation algorithms.

Responsibilities include 

• Develop automated system to run continuous regression tests against ground truth annotated images.
• Work with algorithm developers to design tests that qualify algorithms to perform in a robust and well characterized manner on real world noisy images.
• Generate statistical reports highlighting failure modes, frequencies, error distributions, etc.
• Gather, curate and annotate large development and test data sets.
• Work with domain experts to understand proper annotations and target values.
• Develop annotation tools. Annotate some data and manage contract annotators.
• Exploit opportunities for automation using simulators, approval of algorithm generated annotations, etc.
• Write simulations; de novo and various simulated distortions and corruptions of real data.
• Instrument algorithm code, white box testing. Aid in the design of metrics that indicate algorithm failure.

Qualifications

Education:

• BS or greater in math, engineering, physics, statistics, etc. 

Required Experience:

• Proficient in at least one programming language, ideally a statistical analysis language like Matlab, R, etc.

Desired Experience:

• Statistically analyzing large data sets, ideally in a QC setting. Skilled with JMP, Statistica, SAS, or similar.
• Image processing, Machine vision, machine learning. Estimation theory.
• Familiarity with various standard image and data formats, databases. SQL, XML, JSON, HTML, etc.
• GIS, remote sensing. 

Additional Information

Position Details

This is a full-time salaried position with stock options and benefits.

How to Apply

Please send the following to jobs AT mavrx.co

• Tell us why you’re interested in Mavrx.

• Your CV/resume

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