FarmGuide - Machine Learning Scientist - IIT/BITS/NIT/IIM

If you are deeply passionate about the start-up ecosystem and agriculture and would like to be part of the story then read on.

About FarmGuide

FarmGuide is India's fastest growing technology startup which is determined to digitize the Agriculture industry. We, at FarmGuide (https://angel.co/farmguide) are working upon building data management services, integrable in the agro supply chain to interconnect FMCGs, warehouses & such stakeholders to the farmers at the bottom.

Position : Machine Learning Scientist

Job Description :

We are looking for ninjas who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out the data science team and looking to hire across levels.

- Solving complex problems in the agri-tech sector, which are long-standing open problems at the national level.

- Applying computer vision techniques to satellite imagery to deduce artefacts of interest.

- Applying various machine learning techniques to digitize existing physical corpus of knowledge in the sector.

Key Responsibilities :

- Research state-of-the-art methods in computer vision to solve problems at scale.

- Implement models and data pipelines to analyse terabytes of data.

- Deploy built models in production environment.

Skills Required :

- Demonstrable interest in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, such as coursework, open-source contribution, etc.

- B.Tech/M.Tech in CS or other related fields such as EE or MCA from IIT/NIT/BITS but not compulsory.

- Open Source experience is a positive.

- Excellent communication skills

- Coding ability in C/C++ or Python.

- Self-directed team player who thrives in a continually changing environment

What is on offer :

- High impact role in a young start up with colleagues from IITs and other Tier 1 colleges

- Chance to work on the cutting edge of ML (yes, we do train Neural Nets on GPUs)

- Lots of freedom in terms of the work you do and how you do it

- Flexible timings

- Best start-up salary in industry with additional tax benefits