What Made Engineers from Tech Giants Gather at a Small AI Startup?
Google, Facebook, Tesla, etc. —all once small startups — now have become Tech Giants where engineers and scientists seek employment. But before, the first version of Google’s search engine was created from a dorm at Stanford. Everybody has to start from somewhere, right? This brings us to a point of how they were able to recruit such outstanding engineers in the first place; a time when the companies’ potential have not been fully realized.
Similarly, there are cases where engineers migrate from a top tech company to a newly born startup, BinaryVR being one of them. We are proud to work with exceptional talents from Google, Facebook, Two Sigma, Lucas Film, and so on.
Three years ago, there were only three co-founders and now six more companions sharing the same vision have joined us. Of course, we are still in a stage of aggressive expansion, with our team eager to hire new talent.
So with that being said, why did people from universities renowned for CS such as Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and KAIST gather at BinaryVR?
Real World Problem Solving
Ask yourself what your dream job is. Do you want to take a step deeper into an academic field and research your interest? At the same time, what if you are interested in building products and impacting the world in a faster, more practical way? Maybe you have made up your mind to join tech giants that utilize cutting-edge technology, dreaming of eating your cake and having it too. Well, who better to ask the reality than one who is already working there?
“What I found was a high degree of labor division between different job types in a department. … It was frustrating at first because I felt like I was just fixing someone’s code who was doing all the fun stuff and not getting to do the important, core work.”
Tyrone Smith, Quora, ‘What is it like to be a computer vision engineer at NVIDIA, Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Amazon?’
Instead, what about BinaryVR?
By its nature of being a tech startup, every single one of engineers and scientists at BinaryVR is straddling the line between R&D and product build. Eat your cake and have your cake, too — Turning something impossible, possible, is what we do. We develop new technology that was impossible before and even commercialize it for our daily lives. Our engineers read the latest academic research paper to improve techniques further and build their own script in a versatile form.
“When I was a kid, I was told we’d have flying cars and the stuff in the Iron Man movies. But I didn’t want to spend four years in a Ph.D. — I wanted it now!”
Daniel, an ETH Zurich CS master graduate, working at BinaryVR
To Daniel, working at BinaryVR is like building Iron Man suits! Building a real-time facial tracker — Close enough, right? Engineers at BinaryVR are real-world problem solvers. We define problems to realize the goal and solve it by whatever means necessary. That’s how we build cool products like BinaryFace or “iron man suits.” If you are like one of us, join us to embrace the challenges!
Stimulated Growth in a Promising Field
Thanks to our problem solvers, BinaryVR’s AI-powered human sensing technology has improved significantly in a short period. There is still a long way to go for BinaryVR, but the same could be said for the AI industry as a whole. While the computer vision industry is a promising field and is growing exponentially, our era is still in an early stage of advancement. In other words, there is enormous potential that we have not uncovered, and there is still enough room for one to become a pioneer.
Working at BinaryVR means joining our journey to explore new possibilities of human sensing technology. We are always in a state of movement, innovating ourselves and keeping our pace with the industry and the market. On the front line of developing cutting edge technology, you will get to teach yourself with the help of experienced human-computer interaction specialists. BinaryVR is one of few places where you can grow fast enough to be a top expert in deep learning and computer vision.
Here’s our product video for you to get some ideas of what we do.
To learn more about our technology, check out these articles.
‘How We Utilize Deep Learning Algorithms’
‘Real-time Facial Motion Capture Process through Dev Kit V1’
Our technology is built on numerous experiments and tests, and we understand challenges and failures are necessary to improve products. To come up with new ideas and experiment, BinaryVR is an optimal place for the modern explorer. Keeping our technology up to date to the highest level is not an option but a must for BinaryVR. With constant changes and a fast-growing environment, you will be competitive as well as our company!
What It Means to Work with Problem Solvers
Last but not least, the reason why full-stack engineers and scientists are gathering at BinaryVR is that they love to work with other problem solvers! Having a chance to work with congenial colleagues will be an indisputably invaluable experience. We say no to micromanagement and yes to developing one’s ability. We aim for clean coding and competency improvement. Define your tasks and achieve it yourself.
Unlike other startups, a majority of engineers at BinaryVR are at a senior level one can learn from. Besides, they are specialized in three different fields — Mathematics, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning— as our product cannot be solely built by specialists of just one sector. Working at BinaryVR allows one to become an expert of all three, sharing insights of one’s expertise and supplementing weaker fields.
Our CEO, Jihun is also one of our problem solvers with a background of computer vision and VFX. Executives provide the best for engineers and established the development centered culture at BinaryVR. We are fully aware of how important it is to hone your abilities instead of fixing minor redundant bugs. We want you to work on something meaningful.
Working at BinaryVR Is Not a Dream Job
No, it is not for everyone — You need to learn constantly, direct yourself, and multitask effectively. However, if you are a born problem solver wanting to build cool stuff, we may be the dream team for you.
And yes, like all the other tech startups, we do have unlimited vacation days, competitive salary, lunch support, a variety of snacks, and a coffee machine.
Join us. Work with the best team to grow together.
We are BinaryVR; an AI startup specialized in computer vision and motion capture technology. We develop the world’s top quality mobile facial tracking solution, BinaryFace SDK, keeping our core value in constant evolution.
