Scandit Zürich

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows. It provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us as we continue to expand, grow, innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

We are now building a new generation of technology for retail: a computer vision–driven system that helps retailers to increase their profit margins through better operational insight and automation. As a Senior Computer Vision Engineer, you will play a leading role in taking this product from 0 to 1, owning key technical decisions and delivering production-grade vision capabilities end to end.

You will own the technical direction for action recognition in real‑world retail environments: from defining how we collect and annotate video data, to prototyping and evaluating models, to iterating on precision, recall and end-to-end alert latency under production‑like conditions. You'll work closely with product, data, and engineering stakeholders to validate the riskiest assumptions quickly and cost‑effectively.

If you enjoy turning ambiguous, high‑impact problems into working ML products – and have experience building commercial computer vision systems for action recognition, autonomous checkout, worker safety, or similar applications – we'd love to talk.

About the role

As a Senior Computer Vision Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the technical discovery and early development of Scandit's new solution – from validating the riskiest assumptions to building and iterating on the first end-to-end prototypes. You will work closely with product, other engineering teams, and external stakeholders to turn real-world video data into robust, privacy-aware computer vision models that can operate in live retail environments.

This role connects cutting-edge CV/ML research with real-world product constraints – requiring both deep technical expertise and a pragmatic, experimental approach to building production-ready systems under ambiguity and time pressure.

What you will do

• Defining and prioritizing technical experiments to validate key risks (e.g. precision, recall, latency) for computer vision models in retail stores
• Designing and implementing end-to-end CV/ML pipelines on real-world video data, from data ingestion and preprocessing through model training, evaluation, and deployment
• Setting up and refining the human annotation workflow to create high-quality training and test datasets from video streams
• Collaborating with product managers and engineering leaders to clarify requirements, align on milestones, and translate business needs into technical roadmaps
• Selecting, adapting, and optimizing state-of-the-art computer vision architectures for suspicious behavior and action detection in unconstrained environments
• Providing technical leadership in the space of video-based computer vision applications, helping shape best practices and future hiring for the team

Who you are

We are looking for a senior computer vision / machine learning engineer who has successfully built and shipped real-world products, ideally involving action recognition on video. You combine deep hands-on technical expertise with a pragmatic, experimental mindset and are comfortable working in a high-ambiguity, 0→1 product environment. You should enjoy collaborating closely with product and engineering stakeholders, shaping the technical direction, and iterating quickly on ideas to validate the riskiest assumptions.

• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field (advanced degree is a plus but not mandatory)
• Significant hands-on experience in computer vision and machine learning, including designing, training, evaluating and deploying models in production
• Proven track record of building end-to-end CV/ML systems from 0→1 (ideally commercial products rather than purely academic projects)
• Strong expertise with video-based pipelines and human action or behavior recognition (e.g. retail, autonomous checkout or similar domains)
• Solid software engineering skills (e.g. Python and modern ML/CV frameworks) and experience working with real-world, noisy data
• Ability to work in a dynamic, high-uncertainty environment, prioritize experiments, and iterate quickly on technical approaches
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (e.g. product, backend, data, operations) and communicate complex technical topics clearly in English (B2 level or higher)
• Eligible to work in the hiring location

Nice to have:

• Experience with privacy-aware or GDPR-compliant data pipelines, especially for video data
• Background in building or selecting annotation tools and workflows for computer vision training data
• Prior work on retail, autonomous stores using computer vision

What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their careers at Scandit:

• A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
• Hackathons 
• Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
• People-first culture
• Global team outings 
• Festive/end of year all company celebrations 
• Your birthday off 
• An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company 
• We are certified as a “Great Place to Work” in 7 countries!
• Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London.
• Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
• Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

Imagine the What. Build the How.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Computer Vision)

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

About the role

We are looking for a new colleague to join the Label Capture team and work on creating digital twins of complex labels and identification documents. You will be responsible for evolving our current product by adding new features and optimizing the existing offering. You will work on computer vision and deep learning algorithms to improve information extraction from printed documents beyond state of the art.

If these challenges sound interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you!

What you will do

• Driving and solving semantic document parsing for our customer use cases
• Be involved hands on in all phases of end to end quality improvements (defining and tracking metrics, prototyping, testing, integration of existing models, creation of new models, data collection, analysis, debugging)
• Stay up to date with the latest research in document classification, text recognition and information extraction
• Set direction and identify opportunities to push boundaries of recognition
• Mentoring team members on code quality and engineering practices

Who you are 

You are a senior ML engineer who is passionate about building, shipping, and improving machine learning-powered systems. You have a proven track record of delivering state-of-the-art computer vision systems both on-device and on cloud and firsthand experience bringing them from the prototyping stage to production.

You recognize that software development encompasses both technology and human interaction and feel comfortable working independently or on a team. While you stay on top of the state-of-the-art in CV/ML, you value proven technologies and small increments. You are creative and determined to solve real-world problems by thinking outside the box and making an impact. You thrive on tackling open problems, taking ownership, and effectively overcoming obstacles. You pay attention to details and at the same time are able to take pragmatic shortcuts to reach our goals.

In particular, we are excited to hear from you if the following sounds like you:

• 5+ years of experience solving recognition problems in the industry with a proven track record of launched products
• Fluency in C++ and Python
• Running ML models on mobile devices
• Experience with relevant machine learning frameworks (Pytorch, Jax, Tensorflow)
• Skilled in software design, problem-solving, and debugging
• Experience in computer vision systems extracting information from printed documents or experience with fine-tuning of vision-language models is a plus

What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their career at Scandit: 

• A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
• Hackathons 
• Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
• People-first culture
• Global team outings 
• Festive/end of year all company celebrations 
• Your birthday off 
• An attractive individual equity plan in a growth company 
• We are certified as a “Great Place to Work” in 7 countries!
• Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
• Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
• Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

Who We Are

Scandit enables enterprises and consumers to change the way they interact with everyday objects and augment the physical world with real-time data captured by scanning barcodes and recognizing text, objects, and other visual identifiers using smartphones, tablets, wearables, drones and robots.

Scandit’s mobile data capture platform is built on proprietary computer vision, augmented reality, and machine learning technologies. Companies in industries such as retail, transportation & logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare can use Scandit’s technology to create and power mobile apps for crucial enterprise workflows like mobile point of sale, mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, and proof of delivery.

Many of the world’s most innovative and successful companies are benefiting from Scandit’s enterprise-grade mobile data capture platform, including Sephora, Nissan, DHL, and Levi Strauss & Co.

Scandit was founded by a group of researchers from ETH Zurich and MIT. The company is headquartered in Zurich and is also represented in Boston, London, Warsaw, Tokyo and Tampere. Over the years, our company has evolved into a world-class team of mobile image processing, cloud-computing and “Internet of Things” experts from around the globe and has most recently also opened an office in Tampere, Finland.

“Everybody is welcome here” - Is a celebrated component of our DNA.

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

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