Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition was founded in 2004 as a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. We develop software for interpreting photographs and video, particularly human face detection, tracking, and recognition. We are widely considered to be the world leader in these areas placing first in the 2007 CHIL evaluation, the 2006 CLEAR evaluation, and the 2005 ARDA evaluation. Our technology has applications in video-based security, video compression, automated photograph annotation, video mining, people counting, and photofinishing, serving customers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
We want to hire the type of engineer that reads Joel on Software, and we are pretty sure that you want to work for an employer that does too. In that spirit, we are looking for smart developers that get things done.
We are a small company that consists entirely of software engineers and computer scientists. We have a flat company structure: your boss will be the CEO. We don’t believe in paper work: no TPS reports or requisition forms. We rely on our team members to fill multiple roles, usually becoming our in-house expert in certain fields. Some of these fields include video compression, web programming, code optimization, software integration, gui application development, hardware interfacing, and embedded programming.
We are selective in our hiring and care more about your abilities than the number of years of experience in a certain technology. However, you might want to mention any previous experience in the technologies listed below. We don’t expect you to know all of the following, but we will expect you to master some subset of these:
* Mastery of a low level language (C, assembly)
* Experience in computer vision and/or pattern recognition
* Strong background in data structures and algorithms
* Solid object-oriented design skills
* Knowledge of video encoding and decoding
* GUI programming experience (Qt)
* Web programming expertise (Python, PHP, Ajax, Javascript)
* Linux and Windows system programming
Interested? Please email careers@pittpatt.com. Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition is an EOE employer. All job applications are maintained on file for two years from the date received.