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Samsung Research America

Head of Visual Solutions Lab

Samsung Research America, Irvine, California, United States, 92620


Lab Summary:

VSL (Visual Solution Lab) plays a pivotal role in developing the next generation of discovery in video algorithms, display picture quality enhancement technologies and solutions for future products that can enrich your life.

You could be just the right applicant for this job Read all associated information and make sure to apply.Our mission is to research and develop new picture quality technologies by collaborating with the best and brightest engineering team and creating a collaborative environment between industry and academia and then finally building of the world-best display products such as DTV, monitor and projector.

VSL is driven to build a culture of innovation that rapidly translates new video processing algorithms and new ideas into the unexpected and to build production-ready solutions.

VSL at Samsung Research America is an advanced core R&D research team for consumer display systems and dedicated to build the market #1 consumer display branding power with sophisticated conventional and AI (artificial intelligence) video algorithms.

Position Summary:

Lead research/development/optimization/Integration for highly advanced video algorithms and solutions which are architected by HQ or internal team.

Position Responsibilities:

Manage developing/researching team for the highly advanced video/computer vision algorithms to enhance Samsung’s core technology

Technical lead of algorithm research & development projects

Quickly prototyping new video algorithm ideas/technologies to create proof of concept and demos (e.g. develop new framework for internal/external demonstrations)

Evaluate and recommend the best SOTA solution designs, architecture, papers and open sources which are used for PoC of papers

Analyze from any available sources to find corner case scenarios, fault reasons or bugs with insight clue and then make enhancements into the code deliverables

Effectively communicate and support other global & international engineering teams including SAMSUNG HQ

Responsible to deliver to SAMSUNG HQ commercial level of algorithms & solution qualities

Evaluate and recommend the best designs and architecture for hardware SoC and responsible to deliver to SAMSUNG HQ a commercial level of algorithm & solution qualities control software design

Technical follow up until end of production launch processing from SAMSUNG HQ

Required Skills:

MS and/or PhD in ECE, CE, EE (Signal Processing) orequivalent combination of education, training, and experience in signal processing, video processing, computer vision and S/W engineering

12+ years of experience in technology fields, leadership, and engineering team management:

With a substantial portion in video algorithm development R&D team leading, technology & project planning from scratch ideas, and productions

5+ years of experience in either system level software development or translate experience to RTL and then fully understanding of C/C++ algorithms as per “top” to own the system integration R&R:

Solid C and C++ abilities (note: strong C/C++ skill is a MUST) familiarity with video post processing & algorithms

5+ years of experience in system architect or SoC architect:

Fully understanding of the workflow for video algorithm development process & deliverables, SoC design & implementation process, marketing & business decision process from the initial requirements after digestion of use-cases

Multiple achievements in the following areas: proven track records of successful efforts in experience (International Journal, Conference Papers or Patents):

Super Resolution, Semantic segmentation, Image Quality Assessment, Feature Extraction, Computer vision/Deep Learning/AI Applications, Quantization in Neural Network or HDR

5+ years of hand-on experience in algorithm research & development and then fully understanding of AI network layers and mechanisms including the training, optimization & runtime deployment infra structures:

Python or Mat lab for conventional & AI algorithms

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent technical leadership & management, communication and organizational skills

Strong problem-solving skills, proactive, and willing to take ownership

Development experiences of video signal processing solutions or tools from bare-metal AI model design, low level boosting algorithms or traditional algorithms from scratch

Well known about codec & network protocol architecture & mechanism

Development experience of using GPU Shader and performance optimization from quality & performance perspective

Quick concept proof with hand-on prototyping as a contributor with small pilot team members

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