Preferred Networks

We are a startup with more than 200 members based in Tokyo, focusing on developing technology for Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and Bio-Healthcare. We love open source and are actively developing CuPy and the deep learning framework Chainer. We have one of the world’s largest private GPU clusters, with 1024 NVIDIA Tesla P100 and 512 V100 32Gb GPUs, and we are expanding it further with 1,024 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in July, and using our own custom DL chip MN-Core in 2020. Using our cluster we achieved the world record at that time of training on ImageNet in 15 minutes. Recently, we got the 2nd prize out of 454 teams in the Google AI Open Images - Object Detection Track challenge on Kaggle. We have a strong emphasis on research, and our technical advisors are Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo), Kenji Fukumizu (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) and Yarin Gal (University of Oxford). We continuously publish at top conferences like ICRA, ICCV, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NIPS, NAACL, CHI, UIST, etc. We have a western-style working environment with attractive salaries and benefits in the heart of Tokyo. Ability to communicate in either English or Japanese is OK.