Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Biometrics & Face Recognition)

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Zürich, CHE
Hybrid
Senior level
Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Mobile • Productivity • Software
Scandit is the leader in smart data capture giving superpowers to workers, customers and businesses.
The Role
Lead end-to-end development of face detection, recognition, matching, liveness, and presentation attack detection models for identity verification. Define benchmarks and quality metrics, manage data and labeling, optimize models for on-device inference, and integrate them with C++ SDKs across mobile platforms. Collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams, track biometrics research, support product direction, and mentor other ML engineers.
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Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows. It provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us as we continue to expand, grow, innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

Banks, fintechs and regulated businesses need more than document scanning. They need to know the person holding the ID is real and is its rightful owner. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in our ID Capture team, you will build the machine learning behind that, centred on face recognition and face matching. You will also support our liveness and presentation attack detection work.

You will have real ownership of the architecture, data and benchmarks, and your models will run fully on device, on the phones our users already have, with no cloud round-trip.

If these challenges sound interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you!

About the role

You will drive our face-matching work for high-assurance identity verification. You will own models end to end and work closely with our C++ engineers to ship them on device, at scale, on millions of phones and scanners. 

What you will do

  • Design, train and evaluate models for face detection, face recognition and 1:1 face matching against ID document portraits
  • Support the team's work on liveness and presentation attack detection (PAD) against spoofs, replays and deepfakes
  • Define quality metrics, benchmarks and test sets that meet high-assurance and regulatory expectations
  • Own the full loop: data collection and labelling strategy, prototyping, training, evaluation, debugging and model integration
  • Optimise models for on-device inference with our C++ engineers (quantisation, pruning, mobile runtimes)
  • Track research in biometrics and face anti-spoofing, and turn it into product direction
  • Mentor engineers on ML practice

Our tech stack

  • Python, PyTorch
  • ONNX
  • C++ on-device SDK
  • iOS / Android

Who you are

We are looking for an experienced ML engineer who has shipped production models to real users and has worked hands-on with biometrics. You are comfortable owning ambiguous problems, moving fast and then iterating. You also work well with product, C++ and QA engineers.

  • 5+ years as an ML engineer, with production models shipped to real users
  • Hands-on experience with biometrics: face recognition, face verification, liveness or PAD
  • Fluent in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred)
  • Strong grasp of evaluation for security-sensitive systems: FAR/FRR, bias and fairness across demographics, adversarial robustness
  • Clear communicator who works well across disciplines
  • Eligible to work in the hiring location

Nice to have:

  • Knowledge of standards such as ISO/IEC 30107 (PAD), NIST FRTE/FATE or iBeta testing
  • Experience deploying models on mobile or edge (TFLite, ONNX Runtime, Core ML)
  • Working knowledge of C++

What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their careers at Scandit:

  • A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
  • Hackathons
  • Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
  • People-first culture
  • Global team outings, Micro Adventures
  • Festive/end of year all company celebrations
  • Your birthday off
  • An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
  • We are certified as a "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries!
  • Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
  • Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
  • Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

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Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience as a machine learning engineer
  • Production machine learning models shipped to real users
  • Hands-on experience with biometrics, including face recognition, face verification, liveness, or presentation attack detection
  • Fluency in Python and at least one deep learning framework, preferably PyTorch
  • Strong understanding of evaluation for security-sensitive systems, including FAR/FRR, demographic bias and fairness, and adversarial robustness
  • Clear communication and ability to collaborate across product, C++, and QA disciplines
  • Eligibility to work in the hiring location
  • Knowledge of ISO/IEC 30107, NIST FRTE/FATE, or iBeta testing
  • Experience deploying models on mobile or edge platforms using TFLite, ONNX Runtime, or Core ML
  • Working knowledge of C++
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The Company
HQ: Zürich
400 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Scandit supports its customers by providing actionable insights and automating end-to-end processes. Our Smart Data Capture platform enables smart devices, such as smartphones, drones, digital eyewear and robots to interact with physical items by capturing data from barcodes, text, IDs and objects with unmatched speed, accuracy and intelligence. Scandit accurately scans up to 3x faster than dedicated scanners in challenging light or at angles, on damaged labels, across multiple codes, on any smart device. We enable innovation that delivers significant cost savings, increases employee retention and customer loyalty. Scandit partners with customers at every step with trials, solution design, integration and customer success support included. Specialties: Image Recognition, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Computer Vision, Transportation and Logistics, Healthcare, Barcode Scanning Software, Augmented Reality, Retail Software, Enterprise Software, Last Mile Solutions, BYOD Solutions, Digital Transformation and Machine Learning. Visit scandit.com to learn why market leaders across retail, transport and logistics, healthcare and manufacturing like Instacart, Levi’s Strauss, Sephora, NHS and FedEx trust us. We are hiring, take a look at our career opportunities - https://www.scandit.com/careers/

Why Work With Us

At Scandit, we pride ourselves on building amazing products that revolutionize our customers’ business processes. We are a highly collaborative company with talented, driven, and passionate people all across the globe. We strive to foster a sense of individuality, innovation and fun, and view that as the core of our dynamic culture.

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