Who is Wyze?

Come and be a part of what GeekWire calls a top 100 “most popular and trending” Pacific Northwest tech company at one of Built-in-Seattle’s “100 Best Places to work in Seattle 2021”

Wyze’s mission is to make great technology accessible to everyone because we believe that when great technology is accessible, curiosity thrives! Founded just over three years ago, Wyze started out as a smart camera company and has since branched out into the entire smart home ecosystem.

Our offices are based in Kirkland, WA, an outstanding city 10.3 miles east of downtown Seattle and nestled around beautiful Lake Washington! We also have offices in Beijing and Shenzhen, China!

At the announcement of the pandemic reaching US borders, Wyze employees quickly adapted to WFH setups and we, as well as any new hires, will continue to thrive from the safety of our homes until we can make a safe return to work in our new, COVID-conscious office space.

This role is based full-time in Kirkland, Washington and we are happy to help new folks relocate to this wonderful, tech-savvy city!

This role is based full-time in Kirkland, Washington and we are happy to help new folks relocate to this wonderful, tech-savvy city!

A look inside the role:

IoT is a perfect area for landing AI technologies, and Wyze provides the unique opportunity for landing AI technologies into a wide range of products used by millions of users which is still growing at a fast pace. 

If you are a strong applied scientist with a background in sound & audio detection and speech processing/recognition, and are passionate in applying your skills to solve customer problems in a fast-growing startup, then this is the right opportunity for you. 

As an Applied Scientist (Acoustics/Speech AI), you will work with the the team building models and algorithms to understand natural/artificial sounds and human voices with contexts from multiple devices and sensors, inferring on environmental situations or converting into control commands for home automation, where the commands range from simple ones such as turn on/off lights/cameras, adjust temperature, to more complicated smart rules consist of a set of compound commands. Since this is an early-stage effort in a startup environment, you will play an active role of translating business requirements into elegant and beautiful solutions and build quick prototypes or proof-of-concepts in partnership with other passionate people in the team. When you join the team, we guarantee that you will learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of users.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and motivated scientists and engineers with diversified backgrounds, all aim at the mission to build smart living for everyone, using machine learning and deep learning and solving problems in computer vision, sound detection, speech recognition, natural language understanding. As part of your job, you will collect the requirements, define the problems, define the algorithms, conduct proof-of-concepts with stringent performance requirements (e.g., accuracy, speed, model size), perform offline and online testing, and push models to production. 

Responsibilities

• Invent, build and monitor the performance of state-of-the-art models for a variety of different tasks such as audio classification, sound event detection, spot word detection, speech recognition, natural language understanding.
• Collaborate with data engineers and software developers on building data pipelines to ingest, process and analyze the data that are important to building machine learning models.
• Collaborate with software developers on how productionize the machine learning models.
• Be proactive in understanding and questioning the quality of the provided data. Provide ways to monitor the quality of the data that is needed for building machine learning models and mitigate noise when necessary.
• Be proactive in diving deep on the strengths and weaknesses of the models, continuously evaluating them and suggesting ways to quantify the patterns of errors that the models make.
• Patent and publish findings in leading computer vision and machine learning conferences and journals.

Basic Requirements

• PhD or equivalent Master’s Degree plus 4+ years of experience in CS or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience working on using deep learning and machine learning to solve business applications.
• Deep understanding of audio & sound signal understanding, speech recognition and/or natural language understanding, with ability to implement them in product-quality code using both existing toolkits and self-developed code.
• Proficiency with at least one of the popular deep learning toolkits (PyTorch, TensorFlow, MXNet, DarkNet, Caffe, etc.)
• Proficiency with Python or C/C++ and at writing production-read codes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong publication record in top conferences or journals, such as ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP.
• Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art audio classification, speech processing/recognition, NLP and machine learning algorithms.
• Ability to prioritize and strategize in a variety of project areas and deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Solid experience in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud is a plus.

Our Benefits

Wyze has a full benefits package through Premera Blue Cross. This includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, EAP, Short-term disability, Long-term disability, FSA, and Daycare FSA. Employee premiums will be paid 100%, and 80% paid premium for dependents.

10 Holidays - 6 set holidays and 4 Floating Holidays for you to use however you choose

15 days of PTO every year

Additional Wyze anniversary vacation days

9 sick days/mental health days per calendar year

Principal 401k Plan - there is no company match at this time

Rosetta Stone reimbursement if you'd like to learn Mandarin

$50 a month reimbursed as a technology stipend - taxes apply

Wyze employee product perks: Wyze employees receive an array of our most loved products and services, as well as Wyze software services once they are launched. Employees also get a chance to participate in our beta program for unreleased products to help make Wyze better for all!

Come Join Us!

If this sounds too good to be true and you are ready to be part of #teamwyze, then we want to hear from you! Please send us a cover letter that showcases some of the outstanding things you can do and how you feel they could apply to our vision and projects here at Wyze!

We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at [email protected].

Lastly, and exceptionally important to us: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as well as inclusion here at Wyze. We are fully committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. That’s how we do things!