Data Scientist

About Naicos

Naicos, a fast-paced startup, builds AI-native products for algorithmic commerce: the future of how e-commerce runs. Our first products are already live with paying customers, and we are shipping new ones continuously.

Your Role

You will drive the research behind our imaging products, finding approaches to hard, unsolved problems in product and apparel imagery that work at production scale. You will run the experiments, prove what is viable, and hand a working approach to the engineering team.

Who We Are Looking For

•     Total experience: 3 years or more, with a strong research orientation

•     Deep learning frameworks in Python: PyTorch or TensorFlow

•     Image processing in Python: OpenCV, Pillow, scikit-image

•     Working knowledge of diffusion and other image generation models

We are looking for a strong research or research-student profile: someone who investigates, experiments and proves an approach, working closely with the AI Architect. Someone who is driven to build solutions, not just desk research.

AI Skills and Experience

•     Computer vision: classical CV alongside deep learning.

•     Segmentation, image-to-image translation, geometry and lighting; 

•     Generative imaging: diffusion models, conditioning and control, fine-tuning and LoRA,

•     Reads academic papers, judges what is reproducible, and turns one into a working prototype in days

Good to have

•     3D and rendering; published research or open-source contributions; model optimisation for inference cost

Research and innovative problem solving

•     Comfortable where there is no known answer, and defines the approach yourself

•     Solves problems inventively rather than reaching for the biggest model; many results come from classical image processing, fitment and geometric transformation

Other Relevant Skills and Experience

•     Designs experiments: baselines, measurable success criteria, honest reporting of negative results

•     Explains findings to a non-research audience and guides engineers to production

•     Git and reproducible experiment tracking (Weights & Biases, MLflow or similar)

Educational Qualification

•     BE / B.Tech / ME / M.Tech in Computer Science

•     BE / B.Tech / ME / M.Tech in any discipline with proven Computer Vision coursework or work

•     MSc / MS in Computer Science, Maths, Statistics or Computer Vision

•     PhD in Computer Vision or Machine Learning: an advantage, not a requirement

•     Reputed Tier 1 university preferred