Overview

Position Title:  Research Software Engineer

Company: JD.COM

Location: Birmingham, UK

Job Description

JD.com offers endless data-rich application scenarios in a range of areas, including e-commence, supply-chain, logistics, big data, cloud computing, IoT, marketing, and automation, to inspire our research on machine learning and data mining. We have an open publication policy and our researchers have strong publication records in leading journals and at top conferences, such as ICML, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and ICCV.

Responsibilities:

  • Work and collaborate closely with Research Scientists on cutting-edge research projects in machine learning and artificial intelligence including, but not limited to, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, data mining, and automation;
  • Bring new research ideas to life by implementing algorithms, running large-scale experiments, evaluating performances, architecting software libraries and APIs, and building software prototypes;
  • Optimise effectiveness and efficiency of your programs;
  • Report and present software development status and results clearly;
  • Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables;
  • Be able to adapt to changes and manage setbacks.

Requirements:

  • Strong programming skills in Python;
  • Strong knowledge of algorithm analysis and design;
  • Knowledge of probability, statistics, linear algebra, and calculus;
  • Exposure to machine learning or other areas of artificial intelligence;

About JD.COM

With more than 300 million customers, JD.com is expanding quickly in China because consumers increasingly demand the authentic, high-quality products JD is known for. We work closely with both domestic brands and top international brands to bring fresh food, apparel, home appliances, baby products and more to Chinese consumers.