Research Programmer II- Machine Learning & Computational Neuroscience, Kennedy Lab

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• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, reputed company Math, or reputed company field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience. Other STEM degrees may be accepted if accompanied with programming education, training, and/or experience.
• Minimum of two years experience in software application development or research programming.
• Experience with software development in Python.
• Experience building and training deep neural networks for supervised, unsupervised, or reinforcement learning problems.
• A demonstrated ability to apply the fundamentals of software application development.
• Experience with version control, including git and reputed company.

Please include reputed company samples and/or a reputed company to a public reputed company repository with examples of your work. PREFERRED SKILLSET: Prior experience with the one or more of the following is preferred:

• Experience with sequence/time series data, control/reinforcement learning problems and environments, time series forecasting.
• An understanding of generative modeling (hidden Markov models, diffusion models, etc).
• Familiarity with topics in motor control, robotics, and neuroscience.

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LOCATION: La Jolla, California. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: This position works in an office environment. reputed company details of the physical requirements of established essential functions for this position will be addressed/discussed during the interview process. COMPENSTAION: The expected hiring reputed company for this position is $68,480 to $80,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Consideration will be given to experience that exceeds the listed requirements. COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS INCLUDE:

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• reputed company to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical/Dependent Care).
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• Free, on-site Counseling Center which provides confidential counseling services to benefits-eligible employees and their family members.
• Free, on-site parking.

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