<div dir="ltr">Happy Tuesday, CS Division!<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I hope everyone is enjoying their post-convention summer! </p>
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positions at an exciting startup where the founder is highly interested in bringing
on disabled engineers. This position is
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relocation bonus for candidates from elsewhere. If you’re interested in either of these roles
you can reach me by replying to this email, sending me a text (cell number is
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<h1 style="margin:0.25in 0in 4pt;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:20pt;font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:rgb(15,71,97);font-weight:normal">Senior ML/AI Engineer</h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Description:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:130%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">We are looking for a driven
founding AI/ML Engineer to ideate, scope, and train custom vision and
navigation models for previously unsolvable problems related to digital
accessibility.</span><span style="font-family:Roboto"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:130%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">You will have the opportunity to
create from scratch or recreate through research papers novel models across the
domains of Vision Language Models (VLMs), Document Layout Analysis, Vision
Classification, and more. Broadly, your work revolves around transforming
difficult </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> rules into repeatable model
inferences. Because we are rapidly growing, we expect you to be a fast learner.
Expertise in AWS and cloud-deployment is a must as is experience operating in
low-data environments. </span><span style="font-family:Roboto"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">4+
years of experience in AI/ML (either research or practice)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Proficiency
in </span><span style="color:black">Python, SQL, AWS</span></p>
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</span></span>Preferred Research focus Areas: Computer Vision,
Vision Language Models (VLMs), Document Layout Analysis, and Vision
Classification</p>
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</span></span>Experience working in low-data environments to
create, train, or fine-tune models. </p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto">(plus) Experience in accessibility and
compliance</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">(plus)
Strong understanding of WCAG and ARIA</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">(plus)
IAAP certification</span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0.25in 0in 4pt;line-height:107%;break-after:avoid;font-size:20pt;font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:rgb(15,71,97);font-weight:normal">Senior Full-stack engineer </h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:130%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Description: </span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">We are looking for a mid- to senior-level developer
to design, grow, and maintain our accessibility code identification and
remediation products on web and mobile.</span><span style="font-family:Roboto"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:130%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">You will be responsible for
turning the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> into automated scans and fixes to
keep our clients up-to-date on the latest accessibility standards. The
day-to-day tasks include writing software in multiple languages (Typescript,
React, React Native, Swift, Kotlin, SQL), troubleshooting across multiple large
pipelines, and interacting directly with companies at Fortune 1000 companies.
We expect you to be a fast learner.</span><span style="font-family:Roboto"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">6+
years of experience as a software engineer</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Proficiency
in Typescript and React; (React Native, Swift, Kotlin, SQL are a plus)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Familiarity
with abstract syntax trees (ASTs)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Experience
with CI/CD methodologies, using relevant tools (CircleCI, Jenkins, Git, etc.)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Experience
with deploying at least one cloud provider at scale (AWS/GCP/Azure)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Experience
with databases, such as SQL, NoSQL, etc.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">(plus)
Experience in accessibility and compliance</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">(plus)
Strong understanding of WCAG and ARIA</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">(plus)
IAAP certification</span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lia Stone, LSW</p><p class="MsoNormal">Co-chair, National Employment Committee | National Federation of the Blind</p><p class="MsoNormal">First Vice-President | National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:evangeliastone@gmail.com" target="_blank">evangeliastone@gmail.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">917-570-3166</p>
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