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About Highspot

Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role 

Our Machine Learning Team is developing next-generation AI capabilities for Highspot’s leading sales enablement platform.  We stay at the forefront of machine learning research, continuously improving our models and algorithms through collaboration with product and data science teams. Our mission is to help our customers unlock the power of machine learning, including Generative AI, to improve productivities, sales performance, and achieve their business goals. We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join us in this effort.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with product and scientist teams to identify opportunities that drive customer values, and define machine learning requirements, lead the development and deployment of machine learning solutions and applications, while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain a robust machine learning platform that enables the efficient deployment and management of machine learning models across our product offerings.
• Develop highly-available distributed services and APIs.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest machine learning research and trends, and apply them to our product offerings, while mentoring and collaborating with junior team members to improve their technical skills
• Partner cross-functionally across all of HighSpot feature engineering crews, as well as with QA/DevOps/Site-Reliability.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in developing and/or deploying machine learning systems
• 5+ years of experience with distributed systems, REST API design & development
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java, C++, etc.) and experience with machine learning libraries (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of machine learning concepts, such as supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and natural language processing
• Experience with data processing tools and technologies, such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, and SQL databases
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex data sets.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals.
• Comfortable with modern open source technologies and tools.
• Passion to learn new technologies and infrastructure.

Highspot offers the following employee benefits for this position:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits

-Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and matching employer contributions (DPSP)

with immediate vesting

-Flexible PTO

-Generous Holiday Schedule + 5 Days for Annual Holiday Week

-Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)

-Flexible work schedules

-Professional development opportunities through LinkedIn Learning

-Discounted ClassPass membership

-Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health

-2 Volunteer days per year

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Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation, which may include age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disabilities, political belief, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Did you read the requirements as a checklist and not tick every box? Don't rule yourself out! If this role resonates with you, hit the ‘apply’ button."

Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary is seeking an exceptional Principal Scientist, Reinforcement Learning (RL) to join our team in engineering and innovating unique robotic manipulation tasks.

As a Principal Scientist, you'll be responsible for selecting the most promising state of the art (SOTA) approaches, designing training and data-collection pipelines, supervising the process of testing these algorithms in simulation, and deploying them to our robots in real-world settings. With access to in-house robots, you'll also have a unique opportunity for impactful work with new haptic and proprioceptive sensing modalities.

Success Criteria

• Design, implement, and improve SOTA RL algorithms and test them in real-world settings
• Keep up to date with SOTA RL methodologies and robotics
• Identify, communicate, and drive promising research directions to the team
• Find ways of improving existing implementations of RL learning pipelines with regards to standard metrics such as sample efficiency, speed, computational resource usage, and scalability
• Design RL training and data-collection pipelines to facilitate fast deployment on physical robots
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to develop novel algorithms and investigate sources of errors with existing implementations

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Math, or equivalent work experience in ML
• 4+ years' experience implementing a variety of ML methods with a focus in a specialization such as computer vision or robotics
• 2+ years' experience implementing and deploying (dexterous) robotic manipulation tasks in simulation and on physical robots
• Experience in simulation-to-reality transfer learning
• Experience taking ML R&D and trained models into production
• Hands-on experience integrating ML models onto a robotics platform 
• Experience with computer vision systems
• Publications in leading AI conferences such as Neurips, ICLR, ICML and CORL  

• Development with Python 3.6 or later
• Working knowledge of PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
• Familiarity with ROS2
• Extensive knowledge of Reinforcement Learning principles and use
• Experience with Atlassian tools; Jira, Confluence, or equivalent i.e. GitLab

• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Strong leadership skills in organizing R&D work for ML projects
• Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
• Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
• Enthusiasm for bringing human-like intelligence to machines
• Ability to drive development of new functionalities from concept to production
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast paced environment

** Please do not submit any information that is confidential to you or any third party. By submitting an application, you acknowledge and agree that your application does not contain any information that is confidential to you or any third party. **

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

About Highspot

Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Data & Services Engineering (DSE) Team

The Data & Services Engineering (DSE) Team is on the mission of building innovative solutions to drive growth and adoption of the Highspot platform, drive operational efficiency to scale our customer services organization, generate impactful analytics insights we can share with customers and industry, integrate & share curated data from our data warehouse to empower data-driven decision making across the organization.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Data Scientist with experience working within the entire analytics lifecycle. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for analyzing large and complex data sets to identify patterns, create new metrics, develop predictive models, build dashboards, and generate insights that drive business decisions. You will lead high-visibility high-impact projects and work closely with a skilled and diverse group of domain experts, company leaders, software engineers, data analysts, data engineers, and beyond.

What You'll Do

• Analyze core business topics using Highspot’s product and business data (such as user behavior on the Highspot platform, customer health, and the operations of our internal teams) to gain insights that will drive product development and enhance platform effectiveness.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and identify opportunities where statistics, machine learning, and operations research techniques can be used to make a significant impact and then design, develop, deploy and monitor those solutions.
• Partner with our Data Engineering team to conceptualize data pipelines that can extract data and insights for daily business management in an automated manner.
• Define top-level business, team, and product metrics and build automated reports in close coordination with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Cultivate a nuanced understanding of Highspot's data and lead research to uncover new opportunities for analytics within Highspot’s product and business.

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or related quantitative fields.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL to query and transform structured and semi-structured data.
• 3+ years experience using Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, or other automated reporting tools.
• Highly proficient in Python and related analytics libraries to wrangle, visualize, analyze, and build statistical/ML models.
• 5+ years experience in designing, developing and deploying predictive models to address real-world business problems; relevant techniques include regression, classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, ensemble methods, recommender systems, and linear/integer programs.
• Comfortable using git to version control code and collaborate with other Data Scientists and Engineers on projects.
• Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and solving impactful business problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to explain complex research to technical and non-technical audiences and to publish insights from your work.
• Driven by empathy to support, learn, and contribute to a team’s success.

Highspot also offers the following employee benefits for this position:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits

-Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and matching employer contributions (DPSP)

with immediate vesting

-Flexible PTO

-Generous Holiday Schedule + 5 Days for Annual Holiday Week

-Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)

-Flexible work schedules

-Professional development opportunities through LinkedIn Learning

-Discounted ClassPass membership

-Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health

-2 Volunteer days per year

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Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation, which may include age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disabilities, political belief, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Did you read the requirements as a checklist and not tick every box? Don't rule yourself out! If this role resonates with you, hit the ‘apply’ button."

Your New Role and Team

Our Product team is looking to hire a Product Management Co-op student for our Product Management team. Reporting to the Head of Product, you'll work with engineering, commercial and customer experience teams across the organization to identify, and document product requirements, update product roadmaps, create project plans, monitor project progress, and communicate status to stakeholders.

Our Success Criteria

• Develop and improve product management processes within the organization
• Support cross-functional project communication and stakeholder alignment
• Document customer use cases and define product requirements
• Perform market research projects and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders
• Extracting, consolidating, and analyzing data to drive informed business decisions

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics (or related fields) no later than May 2024
• Familiarity with project management methodologies
• Proficient in data analysis and modeling
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software

• Proven ability to learn innovative technologies and platforms quickly, accurately, and efficiently
•  Able to articulate complex concepts clearly and in a way a diverse audience would understand
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills
• An aptitude to learn and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment

• The successful candidate will be a proponent of individual personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Empathetic listener with conflict resolution capabilities
• Strong communicator and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
• Mission driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary AI is looking to hire a talented Software Engineer to join our Cognitive Services team. This is a career changing chance to collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design and implement cognitive logic and motion planning for the Carbon™ platform on our Phoenix robots. The ideal Software Engineer should have a passion for robotics, general-purpose AI, and a desire to work with industry-leading technologies.

As a more experienced Software Engineer, you’ll bring comprehensive system and Application Programming Interface (API) design skills and hands-on experience in implementing, deploying, and maintaining Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and pipelines that follow engineering best practices. Familiarity with the Robotic Operating System (ROS) and cloud development is considered an asset. As part of the team, you will be a valuable resource, working with research scientists to implement, test, and launch state of the art AI models.

Our Success Criteria

• Gain cutting-edge career experience developing cognitive logic, as well as managing, optimizing, and securing on-robot, edge computers, and cloud environments
• Design, build, and deploy large-scale deep learning models for object detection and pose estimation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement innovative solutions for real-time navigation and user interaction
• Identify and fine-tune machine learning models to optimize the performance
• Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner with leaders to ensure smooth deployment and configuration, provide technical support to end users, and structure/update technical documentation

• 5+ years of software development experience focused on AI, ML, NLP, or human-computer interaction (HCI) preferred
• Fluency with C/C++, Python, or equivalent, and comprehensive knowledge of professional engineering practices
• Understanding the fundamentals of computer science, data structures, and operating systems
• Ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and Cloud platforms

• Hands-on experience building highly scalable distributed systems on the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with leading System and API design (modularity, scalability, and reliability)
• A track record of technical excellence and successful projects under minimal supervision
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and model optimization
• Experience in mentoring and leading other engineers

• The successful candidate will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
• Above all else, possess a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Empathetic listener with conflict-resolution capabilities
• Clear communicator and adaptive interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
• Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving issues
• Mission-driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to general-purpose robots

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time employees enjoy medical/dental/vision, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary is looking for an exceptional Research Engineer specialized in Path and/or Motion Planning to help develop systems that support the development of embodied human-like intelligence.

A successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on or with state of the art software systems, tackling challenges that include abstracting robot platforms for development and production, data and signals processing, the development of simulated environments, and various levels of control systems.

Our Success Criteria

• Gain cutting edge career experience as you design, develop, document and deploy motion planning systems that support intelligent control systems for state of the art robots
• Expand your research experience as you implement tools that enable advancements in robotics motion planning and artificial intelligence
• Achieve company-wide visibility as you write, debug, maintain, and document code that will be part of our platform for the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots

• Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Controls, or equivalent work experience
• Direct experience in path and motion planning as well as optimization (4+ years) with at least one publication in this area
• Direct experience with motion planning in high DOF (>6) systems
• Direct experience with path planning systems
• Experience working on complex engineering problems as part of a team

• 5+ years Development experience with Python and C++
• Working knowledge of PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
• Experience with Atlassian tools; Jira, GitLab, Confluence

• The successful candidate will be a proponent of individual personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
• Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
• Enthusiasm for bringing human-like intelligence to machines

Please do not submit any information that is confidential to you or any third party. By submitting an application, you acknowledge and agree that your application does not contain any information that is confidential to you or any third party.

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time employees enjoy medical/dental/vision, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

About Highspot

Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role

Our Machine Learning Team is developing next-generation AI capabilities for Highspot’s leading sales enablement platform.  We stay at the forefront of machine learning research, continuously improving our models and algorithms through collaboration with product and data science teams. Our mission is to help our customers unlock the power of machine learning to improve productivities, sales performance, and achieve their business goals. We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join us in this effort.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with product and data science teams to identify opportunities that drive customer values, and define machine learning requirements, lead the development and deployment of machine learning solutions and applications, while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain a robust machine learning platform that enables the efficient deployment and management of machine learning models across our product offerings.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest machine learning research and trends, and apply them to our product offerings, while mentoring and collaborating with junior team members to improve their technical skills
• Partner cross-functionally across all of Highspot’s feature engineering crews, as well as with QA/DevOps/Site-Reliability.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in developing and deploying machine learning models and systems
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java, C++, etc.) and experience with machine learning libraries (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of machine learning concepts, such as supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and natural language processing
• Experience with data processing tools and technologies, such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, and SQL databases
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex data sets.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals.
• Comfortable with modern open source technologies and tools.
• Passion to learn new technologies and infrastructure.

Highspot also offers the following employee benefits for this position:

-Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits

-Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and matching employer contributions (DPSP) with immediate vesting

-Flexible PTO

-Generous Holiday Schedule + 5 Days for Annual Holiday Week

-Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)

-Flexible work schedules

-Professional development opportunities through LinkedIn Learning

-Discounted ClassPass membership

-Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health

-2 Volunteer days per year

#LI-DL1

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation, which may include age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disabilities, political belief, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Did you read the requirements as a checklist and not tick every box? Don't rule yourself out! If this role resonates with you, hit the ‘apply’ button."

Your New Role and Team

As part of our growing team, the Distinguished Technologist will work closely with the CTO, CPO, CCO, Product Management, Software Engineering, and Machine-Learning (ML) teams. The Distinguished Technologist will be responsible for leading the architectural design and technology used in our cognitive platform and mapping business requirements to architectural design and implementation.

The Distinguished Technologist will also work across multiple departments and leadership groups to design, implement, and accelerate the delivery of Sanctuary’s mission. As an acting member of the technical leadership team, the Distinguished Technologist will be crucial in our goal of building human-like intelligence in a general purpose robot. 

Our Success Criteria

• Bring experience of developing AI & ML platforms to evolve our cognitive platform
• Ensure that we’re building a general-purpose cognitive platform
• Collaborate with our technology partners to evolve our multi-technology AI platform
• Coach & mentor technical teams through evaluating technologies and approaches
• Work with leadership to communicate our plan and technology to company stakeholders
• Collaborate with Product Management, Software Engineering, ML Engineering, IP Leaders, Customer Success, and Business Development to understand constraints and objectives of each team

• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying sophisticated AI systems in real-world environments
• 10+ years in executive technical roles, research, and distinguished technical leadership: Distinguished in both institution/company and distinguished in wider industry
• Master's, PhD, or Equivalent Experience; Technical degree or relevant experience in AI systems is applicable
• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale ML data systems
• Successful experience initiating and driving org-wide initiatives to the finish line
• Experienced making regular contributions to the AI/ML community through blog posts, tech talks, etc. 
• Track record of generating IP through patents and publications
• Demonstrated leadership in AI & ML open-source programs
• Demonstrated leadership in combining multiple AI & ML technologies including but not limited to: Cognitive Architectures, Multi-agent systems, Symbolic reasoning, NLP/NLU/NLG, Large Language Models (LLMs), Reinforcement Learning, Deep-Learning, Knowledge representations, Task Planning methods and others
• Cohesive ability to map complex ideas into exemplar use-cases in partnership with Product Management and Executive Leadership
• Track record of coaching, mentoring, and developing great talent
• Comprehensive ability to communicate complex and sophisticated technologies to executive leadership, customers, and company partners
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on agreed milestones and timescales and operate within a complex concurrent engineering program
• Prior success showcasing iterative evolution to customers, investors, and internal business stakeholders
• Comprehensive ability to design & engineer systems for scale and serviceability from prototype to production
• Demonstrated experience and skills with: RL, DL, Cyc, GraphQL, Spark, Flink, Databricks, Python, C++ 
• Prior experience of defining APIs and Programming Languages

• Will thrive in a zero-politics environment focused uniquely on our world-changing mission
• Highly competitive and driven to succeed
• Professional, calm, and consistently optimistic in the face of adversity and difficult challenges
• Excited about the opportunity to play a critical role with a visionary company taking on the dual grand challenges of building human-like intelligence and general-purpose robots
• Entrepreneurial and goal-driven with a high level of energy
• Motivated and effective in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Charismatic and inspirational leader
• Ideally this candidate will be based in Vancouver, BC, or is able to relocate; we will consider exceptional candidates who are able to frequently travel for work in Canada

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

Sanctuary is seeking an exceptional Senior Machine Learning (ML) Researcher to join our team in engineering and solving foundational challenges of robotic perception, planning, and reasoning.

As part of the ML team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing novel algorithms, testing your algorithms in simulation, and deploying them to our robots in real-world settings. With access to in-house robots, you will have a unique opportunity for impactful work with new haptic and proprioceptive sensing modalities. As part of your work, you'll have the opportunity to learn and implement leading-edge ML methods.

Success Criteria

• Design and implement novel algorithms and test your algorithms in real-world settings in at least one of these categories: computer vision, haptics processing, or robotics
• Keep up to date with the state-of-the-art on specific topics in computer vision, robotics, and machine-learning
• Identify, communicate, and drive promising research directions to the team
• Implement and test existing solutions and find ways of improving existing implementations for execution with regards to standard metrics such as speed, memory and computational resource usage, and scalability
• Package research results and implementation for use by other researchers and collaborators
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to develop novel algorithms and investigate sources of errors with existing implementations

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Math, or equivalent work experience in ML
• 4+ years' experience implementing a variety of ML methods with a focus in a specialization such as computer vision or robotics
• Demonstrated experience with the state-of-the-art in 3D scene understanding, such as object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, and 3D scene reconstruction 
• Demonstrated experience with optimization algorithms and Monte Carlo methods
• Experience in simulation-to-reality transfer learning
• Experience taking ML R&D and trained models into production
• Hands-on experience integrating ML models onto a robotics platform 
• Experience with computer vision systems
• Publications in leading AI conferences or in the field of robotics learning-based methods  

• Development with Python 3.6 or later
• Working knowledge of PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
• Familiarity with ROS2
• Extensive knowledge of Reinforcement Learning principles and use
• Development experience with C++17 or later
• Development experience with HPC tools: CUDA, OpenMP, SSE  
• Experience with Atlassian tools; Jira, GitLab, Confluence
• Expert-level skills working on SLAM 
• Working knowledge of Discrete Optimization 

• The successful candidate will be a proponent of individual personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
• Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
• Enthusiasm for bringing human-like intelligence to machines

** Please do not submit any information that is confidential to you or any third party. By submitting an application, you acknowledge and agree that your application does not contain any information that is confidential to you or any third party. **

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.