Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dandy, a leading digital-first custom dental appliance manufacturer, and be part of a world-class team enhancing our 3D dental platform. We're automating human-driven processes in manufacturing, tackling problems in 3D geometric computer vision, generative deep learning, and machine learning. You'll establish best practices, solve imaging and rendering problems, and innovate. This role involves making technical decisions, setting up systems, guiding junior engineers, and implementing CV, ML, and rendering approaches to create esthetic dental restorations. You will recover optical properties of teeth from images and learn about lighting conditions and color mapping. We offer a wide range of employee benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in software development
• 3+ years of experience in rendering or rendering adjacent projects (reconstruction, optical property rectification, ray tracing/casting, etc)
• 3+ years of experience in 2D or 3D computer vision
• Experience bringing research product to market
• Experience with one or more of the following: Simulating/modeling optical properties of materials under different lighting conditions
• Experience with one or more of the following: Inverse rending, scene/object reconstruction from photos
• Experience with one or more of the following: Photo realistic rendering
• Experience with one or more of the following: Normalization of true color/material properties from different types of cameras/sensors
• Experience with one or more of the following: Mapping desired optical properties of materials to inputs for manufacturing processes with the intent of controlling/matching the optical properties of the outputs from said manufacturing processes
• Experience with neural rendering, NeRFs, lighting reconstruction, or a similar field in computer graphics

Responsibilities

• Make technical decisions on algorithmic strategy and data representations to help drive to business value quickly
• Setting up systems and best practices to accelerate interdisciplinary teams’ velocity
• Guide junior engineers to bring research code into production
• Implement current CV, ML, Inverse Rending and PBR approaches to solve the problems related to creating esthetic dental restorations
• Recover the optical properties of human teeth from images, 3D textures and meshes
• Learning the influence of lighting conditions on true color as it relates to teeth
• Learning the mapping between true color and manufacturing paints/ink and manufacturing processes
• Develop realistic rendering pipelines to aid in the design of color and optical properties of teeth to match patients

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters/PhD in computer vision/computer graphics or related field
• Experience with photo realistic rendering and color restoration of teeth

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan
• Paid time off