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12.08.2025

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Description

Are you interested in working on products at the very cutting edge of technology? Want to join Vicon, an Academy Award-winning company, and the world’s largest supplier of precision motion capture and tracking systems?

Vicon is the world leader in motion capture technology, developing high performance software and hardware products for the entertainment, engineering and life science industries. Vicon products are used in major feature films, games, and commercials, and are a crucial measurement tool for biomechanics, robotics, and cutting-edge science.

Vicon is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics Plc.

We are looking for an excellent Computer Vision MLE to join our research and development team in Oxford, England.

Key Responsibilities

This opportunity is to contribute to a team which is building leading-edge motion capture products with a particular focus on research innovation.
You will have opportunities to contribute to technical direction, suggest new areas of research and the potential to guide your own project.
We offer a hybrid on-site/home-based working environment, with head office located in a major academic city.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You have relevant academic (research Masters/PhD level) and/or industry experience.

Experience
Essential Skills
• Experience solving computer vision problems – such as object detection and human pose estimation – with the application of appropriate machine learning methods, such as CNNs and ViTs, in conjunction with non-ML algorithms.
• Demonstrated experience using leading-edge methods for modelling human and object shape, appearance and movement.
• Excellent team working abilities with positive, can-do attitude.
• Examples of working with large spatio-temporal datasets.
• Experience with Python and ML toolkits, e.g. PyTorch, Lightning, etc.

Desirable Skills
• Relevant conference, journal, or other peer-reviewed output.
• Experience delivering the full ML development lifecycle, taking systems from research prototypes through to development and production within a standalone application.
• Experience with model quantisation and optimisation for deployment, e.g. on GPUs.
• Experience, aptitude, and a desire to work with human motion capture, sport, animation tools and techniques.
• Familiarity with C++.

· Competitive salary

· 10% Company Pension

· 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

· Private Medical with Optical / Dental Insurance

· Cycle to work scheme.

· Free On-site Parking

Oxford Metrics is a smart sensing and software company that enables the interface between the real world and its virtual twin. Our smart sensing technology helps over 10,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including all of the world's top 10 games companies and all of the top 20 universities worldwide.

The Group trades through its market-leading division Vicon, Industrial Vision Systems, and recently acquired, The Sempre Group. Vicon is a world leader in motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Red Bull, Imperial College London, Dreamscape Immersive, Industrial Light & Magic, and NASA. Industrial Vision Systems is a specialist in machine vision software and technology for high precision, automated quality control systems trusted by blue-chip, smart manufacturing companies across the globe including BD, DePuy, Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson & Johnson, Zytronic and Alkegen. Sempre is a measurement specialist solving manufacturing challenges across multiple industries. Through their expert in-house consultants and partnerships with over 25 well-known manufacturers including Jenoptik, Renishaw and Micro-Vu, Sempre offers an extensive range of products and software to customers in aerospace, automotive, medical, energy and precision engineering.

Founded in 1984 our Group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.