Computer Vision Software Engineer Intern

OwnLocal is a fun-loving and hardworking Austin-area startup with a crazy plan to help local media companies survive by providing digital services to their small business advertisers. We're a leader in digital advertising solutions for local media companies globally—we partner with more than 2,600 media companies and operate in North America, Europe, and Australia.

You value learning and growing as an engineer, researcher, and as a contributor to a tight-knit company. You enjoy working with people who always push themselves to do better and you know in your heart that life isn’t always work (but sometimes it is). You want to take an active role in deciding how to build computer vision products and can create processes and methodologies behind them. You’re based in Austin (or want to move here), you’re a good natured person (with a sense of humor) and people just like to be around you. Writing algorithm code is in your DNA and you get excited solving problems and improving upon existing technologies using computer vision and machine learning. You are not afraid to dive in to learn new technologies to support your ideas and help test those ideas using a real and large dataset.

* Design and develop production quality automation software with the help of computer vision and machine learning techniques * Collaborate as a team to prioritize and complete all points in a given sprint * Work with our sales, customer support, operations and finance teams to problem-solve and create long-term solutions to company challenges of automation * Fix process fails as a team without assigning individual blame * Aspire to get a perfect score on the Joel test

**You should probably apply if you:** * Have an academic/industrial background in computer vision and/or machine learning * Care about the research methodology in developing a prototype - validation and testing of algorithms is important to you. * Have a solid knowledge of software engineering, programming and computer science * Can pick up and move to different technologies in order to attack the problem at hand * Are not afraid to speak up and challenge existing ideas and processes * Have a humility about your work and develop software with the end product rather than ego in mind * Take a personal responsibility for your work and hold a high standard of quality to everything you touch **You should really seriously apply if you are also good at any of the following:** * Computer vision exposure - computer vision and image processing algorithm development for large data sets (bonus points for semantic segmentation, image content retrieval and feature learning techniques) * Development experience; C/C++/OpenCV, any of the deep learning frameworks * Pragmatism; we don’t always have the resources to do everything and have to be conscious of engineering tradeoffs between ideas and timelines * Research mentality; you are willing to dive into the unknown and find new paradigms in resolving complex problems at large scale