Senior Software Developer (ML/Computer Vision)

Job title: Senior Software Developer (ML/Computer Vision)

Department: IT

Location: Homebased, U.K.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer (ML/Computer Vision) to be part of our success story.

About the role

The Senior Software Developer (ML/Computer Vision) will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining applications using C# .NET and Blazor frameworks, with a special focus on implementing and integrating machine learning models, particularly in computer vision. This role combines traditional software development with ML expertise, working on object detection and classification using YOLO models. The developer will collaborate closely with product managers and the development team to build scalable, AI-enhanced applications.

Key responsibilities

• Application Development: Design, develop, and maintain web applications using C#, .NET 8, and Blazor, incorporating ML capabilities where appropriate.
• Machine Learning Integration: Implement and optimise computer vision models, particularly YOLO architectures, for object detection and classification tasks.
• Model Development & Training: Develop and train computer vision models, optimise model performance, and maintain model versioning.
• ML Pipeline Development: Create robust pipelines for model training, validation, and deployment using MLOps practices.
• Full-Stack Development: Build both front-end interfaces for ML model interaction and back-end services for model execution.
• Performance Optimisation: Optimise ML model inference times and application performance for production environments.
• API Development: Create and maintain APIs for ML model serving and integration with other services.
• Testing and Validation: Implement testing strategies for both traditional software components and ML models.
• Documentation: Maintain technical documentation for both software components and ML models, including model performance metrics and training procedures.
• Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to integrate ML capabilities into existing applications.

Skills and experience

• Software Development: Strong proficiency in C# and .NET 8, including Blazor development.
• Machine Learning: Practical experience with computer vision models, particularly YOLO architectures.
• ML Frameworks: Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and their .NET integrations.
• Computer Vision: Understanding of computer vision concepts, image processing, and object detection.
• Model Deployment: Experience deploying ML models in production environments.
• Database Skills: Strong MySQL and data handling experience.

Desirable Skills:

• ML Deployment Frameworks: Experience with ONNX, TensorRT, or similar optimisation tools.
• Cloud ML Services: Knowledge of Azure ML or similar cloud ML platforms.
• CI/CD for ML: Experience with MLOps and CI/CD pipelines for ML models.
• GPU Optimisation: Understanding of GPU acceleration for ML inference.
• Docker/Kubernetes: Experience containerising ML applications.

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups.
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay.
• Life assurance: three times basic salary.
• Free breakfasts and fruit.
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.