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£60,000-£65,000

I’ve recently partnered with a growing Biotech business who have been going for 5+ years and looking to add a Computer Vision Engineer to their team in Kidlington!

The company have developed industry leading products across the Biotech space, massively impacting healthcare, advancing medicine and developing research which is used globally by a wide range of diverse clients.

They are naturally looking to grow the team and enhance the skill level across areas like automation, computer vision, image processing. You will work with wider reams to integrate computer vision models into various applications used across the business.

The company are based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire and require office working of 4 days a week.

Technical Requirements:

Come from a Physics or Computer Vision background.
Strong experience across Computer Vision and wider tech – PyTorch, Tensorflow.
Naturally have worked extensively with Python.
Confident collaborating with different teams across the business – R&D, Biology.
Ideally have worked with Robotic programming.
Ideally have worked with other programming languages such as C#/C++ - not essential.
Happy mentoring Junior developers where needed.
Confident managing and working with data to assess performance metrics.
Good communication skills.
Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire, 4 days a week in the office
Benefits: Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, 25 days holiday

If this role sounds of interest, then please apply and I can give you a call.

Tim Stock
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