What if you could inspire to make everyday life just a little bit better?  

The answer is simple: You can. This is what motivates us at IKEA. We’re constantly searching to find new ways to be better. We use insights from real life at home all over the world, learning about the needs and dreams of people. We use our home furnishing knowledge to help inspire people with ideas and solutions that will help them live the life they want.  

At IKEA Communications, we’re people-centric, have a passion for making great stuff, and we aim to be the best communication partner for the whole of IKEA. We work closely and together with our colleagues across IKEA, creating state-of-the-art communication at the lowest price. Located in Älmhult, Sweden, we’re a melting pot of many different nationalities and cultures. Because in order to make things better for the many, we want to involve people from all parts of the world. Nonetheless, we never forget our Swedish heritage that forms the backbone of who we are today.  

We’re on the lookout for passionate doers, idea makers, creative thinkers - people who want to find answers to everyday problems in people’s lives, for society and the planet. Do you also believe in celebrating the everyday life?  

Do you want to be part of making it happen from idea to paper or pixel? Then keep on reading.  

The Digital Area is set up to connect, enable and support all IKEA Communications Areas with IT systems and tools to create, produce and deliver communication in the smartest, most automated and cost-efficient way possible.    

The Digital Lab is part of the Digital Area and drives the digital development and innovation work in the spatial computing area for all IKEA companies. The Digital Lab is right now looking for a AI/Deep Learning Specialist.  

As a AI/Deep Learning Specialist in the IKEA Digital Lab, you will create, develop and transfer knowledge related to deep learning within the field of spatial computing and visual machine learning. Act as a connection between IKEA needs and possible technical solutions available or being developed on the market in technical research & development environments.  

Essential parts of the assignment will be to:  

• Take part in the creation “proof-of-concept” applications based on deep learning algorithms within the field of spatial computing and visual machine learning; including exploration, optimization and simulation techniques. 
• Develop data structures and annotation models/standards to develop systems and methods for generation of well-defined training data for deep learning and other machine learning techniques. 
• Implement, maintain, and evaluate deep learning and visual machine learning architectures on a variety of platforms including mobile platforms, workstations, and high-performance compute resources.   
• Work with systematic evaluation to improve deep learning and/or general artificial intelligence models/systems as well as the training/testing data used. 
• Act as “subject matter expert” in all questions related to deep learning within the field of spatial computing. 
   

The AI/Deep Learning Specialist we look for is someone that have a passion to learn new things and a have a hands-on attitude. Someone with deep Interest for the future of deep learning/machine learning. Someone who is highly motivated to work in teams and collaborate within new constellations, both internal and external teams. Someone who contribute to an innovative and creative with positive attitude, problem solving and lateral thinking. 

You´ll need: 

• MSc, or equivalent advanced degree/academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Applied Mathematics or other similar field with documented course components in Machine & Deep Learning and computer vision/graphics. 
• Experience of working with computer vision/graphics or other related field with a strong component of visual machine learning or deep learning. 
• Skills with Python, C/C++ or other programming language, as well as with R, MATLAB, or similar scripting language. Find and explore raw data. 
• Experience in build predictive data models, create learning algorithms and train and test data models. 
• Extensive mathematical and analytical skills. 
• Proficiency with statistics and at least one machine learning or statistical modeling software package (R, Matlab, Scikitlearn, etc) 
• Experience working with popular deep learning toolkits e.g. TensorFlow and PyTorch, and experience in other higher level toolkits (MXNet, Caffe etc) 
• Depth and breadth in experience in state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technologies. 
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)  

This is a place where you can focus on doing what you love. There are no dress codes or closed offices. No day is ever the same. All ideas are welcome. Everyone tries to pitch in when needed, and failures are seen as a way of learning. When you enter our building, we want you to feel that you can inspire billions of people all over the world. Are you ready to make the world a little better, together? We want to hear from you!  

This job has been published before and was reopened on the 23rd of December. It will be closed on the 6th of January and. We look forward to receiving your application in English and link to previous work as soon as you have decided that this could be something for you.  

We do not have an application deadline for this position. We take candidates into the recruitment process continuously and close the position down once we have found the right candidate.  

We do not accept applications by e-mail. If you are one of the candidates, we think have the required experience we will contact you by email or phone to plan a telephone interview. In some cases, recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this regard.