Vision & Graphics Engineering Manager

Company: TripleLift
Location: Utica
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

About TripleLift

TripleLift, one of the fastest-growing ad tech companies in the world, is a technology company rooted at the intersection of creative and media. Its mission is to make advertising better for everyone- content owners, advertisers and consumers-by reinventing ad placement one medium at a time. With direct inventory sources, diverse product lines, and creative designed for scale using our Computer Vision technology, TripleLift is driving the next generation of programmatic advertising from desktop to television.

As of January 2020, TripleLift has recorded four years of consecutive growth of greater than 70 percent, and in 2019 added more than 150 jobs across its locations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. TripleLift is a Business Insider Hottest AdTech Company, Inc. Magazine 5000, Crain's New York Fast 50, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Find more information about how TripleLift is shaping the future of advertising at triplelift.com.

The Role

TripleLift is looking for an engineering manager of our Vision & Graphics team, which is responsible for building out custom software, tools and a VFX pipeline for our creative team to use when developing dynamic product placement, where a product featured in a TV scene is targeted to the individual viewer (e.g. one viewer sees a Coke bottle in the scene; another viewer sees a Sprite bottle). The Vision & Graphics team has two general areas of responsibility: content analysis (computer vision) and brand & product compositing (computer graphics).

As the manager of the Vision & Graphics team, you'll lead a team of computer vision engineers, computer graphics engineers and full stack engineers. You'll work closely with the creative team to understand their creative requirements as it pertains to both content analysis and brand compositing. You'll also work closely with the product and business teams to understand the business economics and subsequently play an integral role in determining the most valuable areas of product development.

The ideal candidate has a large amount of experience in computer graphics and software development, as well as experience leading technology teams. The ideal candidate is self-driven, intellectually curious, unafraid of new challenges, and eager to push the boundary of new computer graphics technology in a way that is more applied than it is research-driven. The ideal candidate is a player-coach, who, in addition to managing a team, will themselves be writing and shipping production code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Vision & Graphics team in creating tools, software and pipeline around computer vision and computer graphics
  • Build and maintain production-ready CV code that analyzes thousands of hours of video content to identify and label dynamic content opportunities
  • Identifying opportunities in our VFX workflows that are most ripe for innovation with engineering
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with technical artists, supervisors, engineers, and other technical directors to break down issues into external requests and design challenges
  • Setting up and automating VFX pipelines for our artists and freelancers; engineer robust and thoughtful software solutions that follow studio policies and standards
  • Integrating the VFX pipeline with our engineering team so that we can set up automated deployment of uploading VFX media as ML training data
  • Build validation tests to ensure software quality
  • Ship reliable, scalable, efficient, and elegant code
    
    Minimum Qualifications
    
    • 7+ years of experience with computer graphics
    • Deep understanding of computer vision, image processing, computational photography, 3D geometry, visual effects and compositing
    • 5+ years of experience with OpenCV or other computer vision processing tools
    • 5+ years of experience with FFMPEG or other video processing tools
    • Experience shipping production code
    • Strong communication skills, particularly in conveying technical concepts in a manner that is easy for clients and non-technical partners to understand
    • Ability to work under intense pressure and multitask in a fast-paced start-up environment
    • Desire to share experience with others
    • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D in Computer Science or equivalent experience
      
      Awards
      
      TripleLift has been honored with many prestigious awards. We received recognition as a Best in the Business by Inc which is for companies that have a positive impact beyond their strong financial results. We were named a Business Insider Hottest AdTech Company in 2020 and 2019. In 2019 we were ranked on the Inc. Magazine 5000, Crain's New York Fast 50, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for 4 years in a row. To check out more of our awards please visit
      
      Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility at TripleLift
      
      At TripleLift, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. Our culture enables individuals to share their uniqueness and contribute as part of a team. With our DEIA initiatives, TripleLift is a place that works for you, and where you can feel a sense of belonging. At TripleLift, we will consider and champion all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition, veteran, marital, or any other status protected by law. TripleLift is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
      
      TripleLift does not accept unsolicited resumes from any type of recruitment search firm. Any resume submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of TripleLift and no fee shall be due.

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