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About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Far from being satisfied, we look with excitement at the future, and believe that through smart and hard work we’ll accomplish much more.
Position
Meet Bending Spoons. Right now, we're among the world’s leading mobile app developers, with millions of users of our products. But there’s a whole lot more in store. We’re going all-out to create one of the greatest tech companies in history—both for the impact of our products and for the quality of the jobs we offer.
It’s no secret that AI and Computer Vision are increasingly integral when creating outstanding digital products—and we’ve got ambitious plans to leverage their potential to the fullest. As an AI engineer at Bending Spoons, you get all the freedom and support you need to bring our game-changing AI strategy to fruition. That involves working at the very cutting edge of the field—then pushing it forward.
We’re recruiting for multiple positions within the team, so we invite applicants of all seniority and experience levels.
As a team, your responsibilities include the following:
- Identifying and implementing the optimal AI solution to power each user-facing feature
- Maximizing performance, robustness, and maintainability
- Collaborating with the Research team to optimize AI models and bring them to production
- Teaming up with product managers to identify ways that AI can improve our user experience
- Working alongside the other Engineering teams to create the necessary tools and infrastructure
Your qualification
- Relevant background or expertise. You hold an MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related technical field. Alternatively, you have relevant expertise
- Relevant knowledge. For senior roles, you’re familiar with Deep Learning and convolutional neural networks (ideally, in their application to image and video processing)
- Reasoning and depth of learning. You’re structured and creative enough to solve most challenging problems independently, given the necessary knowledge. You learn new concepts and skills rapidly, and love to nerd out and go in-depth
- Passion for the topic. You have a long-standing, proven passion for AI in general. Ideally, for Computer Vision specifically
- Good communication skills. You can pose questions with clarity, explain your reasoning concisely, pick the right graph to express a message, and create brief, insightful reports with a touch of artistry
- Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English
What we offer
- Talented, knowledgeable colleagues. Learn from and teach some of the brightest and most skilled people you’ll ever meet. Your talent is going to blossom here
- Huge impact. You’ll make a major contribution to products used by millions all around the world. The quality of your work will make a decisive difference both to our users and to Bending Spoons as a company
- People who lift each other up. We hire for talent and leave divas at the door. You'll find a group of truly talented Spooners who are eager to learn and teach their secrets. Reciprocal support and respect is everything—you’re unlikely to ever encounter a more harmonious crew
- Cutting edge tools. You get the best hardware on the market and all the software you could need
- Flexible schedule. Our regular hours are 9-6 GMT+1, but this isn’t a “clock in, clock out” company. Morning person? Start work while the world’s still sleeping. Night owl? Ramp things up while others are winding down. You’re fully trusted to create the right conditions for your own personal peak productivity. We only ask that you’re available to your teammates a good chunk of the day (six hours or so). That’s why it’s generally best to be based somewhere with a similar time zone—between GMT-2 and GMT+3
- Unlimited time off. Take all the time you need to be with your family or recharge your batteries—no permission process or vacation allowance here. Because a rested, relaxed, and refreshed Spooner is a happy and effective Spooner
- Top-of-the-market salary and stock options. Our compensation package is highly competitive and can grow rapidly and include stock options, depending on your performance and seniority
- Continuous education. We pay for your Italian/English language lessons and offer an unlimited budget for learning investments
- Relocation package. To ease your move to Milan (should you decide to relocate), the first three months of rent are on us. Visa support is provided for those who need it
Additional details
The Recruiting Process
If you successfully pass through our screening process, we'll invite you to take on a few tests aimed at assessing how you think and solve (possibly unfamiliar) problems. These tests don't require any prior knowledge, and they should take you a few hours to complete. If you're successful there, we'll invite you to some interviews—normally two or three—to get to know each other and figure out if it’s a good fit for both parties. There, we'll ask you some behavioral and problem-solving questions. The interviews are held remotely. To limit arbitrariness and human bias, Bending Spoons' hiring decisions are made by a hiring committee.