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Role Title: Lead Software Engineer, full-time

Location: NXTGEN Industries, Lidcombe NSW 2141

Salary: Competitive

Who is NXTGEN Industries?

We are a leading robotics, automation and vision company based in Western Sydney. We combine engineering consulting and design services as well as artificial intelligence, IoT and Cloud, and rapid prototyping. We work across a broad range of industries including construction, mining, agriculture, marine and more. Our clients value our expertise and advanced solutions capabilities.

About the role:

An exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team of Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronic and Software Engineers. You will lead our team of Software Engineers, and will be responsible for:

• Driving and leading back-end technical works and contribute to front-end design;
• Delivering well designed technical solutions of our various business priorities,that are highly tailored to our client’s functional needs, and provide continuous improvement of our technical platforms;
• Working on custom designed robotic solutions combining vision, AI and Lidar;
• Leading planning and delivery of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Video Analytics solutions;
• Assisting the team in designing scalable, cost-effective video analysis solutions that leverage cloud services;
• Identifying product limitations and system constraints to create non-functional requirements from the technical perspective;
• Performing analysis as required to troubleshoot issues and assist in their resolution;
• Ensuring technical solutions are “fit for purpose”, meet specified requirements and are strategically aligned;
• Participating in peer reviews, ensure the quality of code produced, promote coding standards, test coverage, and design; and
• Influencing the technical direction of our business, building, maintaining and improving our platforms.

Essential skills, experience and qualifications:

• 4-5 years of industry experience in AI, machine learning and computer vision
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant field
• Experience designing, training, tuning and deploying deep neural networks
• Experience with ML libraries/tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Keras, scikit-learn, pandas
• Experience with OpenCV and/or equivalent machine vision frameworks for building classifiers by hand
• Experience with state-of-the-art object detectors (such as YoloV3, YoloV4, RCNN, SSD, or similar)
• Experience in LiDAR applications, 3D computer vision algorithms and video analytics algorithms, such as image segmentation, 3D reconstruction, object and motion detection, tracking and classification
• Strong Python and C/C++ programming skills
• Familiarity with development in a Linux environment
• Knowledge of full application development lifecycle
• Well-developed conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to implement resulting solutions in a concise and logical manner

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience with ROS
• Experience working on perception and AI components for robotics systems
• Experience using cloud-based AI/ML APIs and deploying cloud-based solutions (e.g. AWS SageMaker, Azure ML or similar)
• Experience with Continuous Integration workflows and TDD
• Exposure to Dockerised environments
• Good awareness of DevOps
• Experience in agile software development practices
• Full-stack development experience, preferably within a senior/lead capacity in a digital team
• Experience in Web Development

Benefits:

• Exciting projects in a diverse range of industries
• Close to public transport
• Parking available onsite
• Flexible working environment
• Social and collaborative team
• Continual training and development opportunities
• Permanent full-time opportunity

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

If you are interested in joining our team to drive our exciting projects, please forward a cover letter addressing the skills, experience and qualifications, and resume to

admin@nxtgenindustries.com

Applications close COB Friday 12th March