Applied Science Intern - Paris, France

You'll be joining the team leading Entrust's Identity portfolio, formerly known as Onfido (an AI- powered digital identity solution). Our technology helps businesses verify real identities using machine learning, ensuring secure remote customer onboarding. By assessing government- issued identity documents and facial biometrics using state-of-the-art machine learning, we provide companies with the assurance they need to operate securely while allowing people to access services quickly and safely.

Our Applied Scientist team consists of about twenty machine learning scientists. The team is supported by an ML Ops team that provides state-of-the-art tooling (including AWS, Encord, Ray, PyTorch Lightning and Weights & Biases). The Applied Science team works closely with product engineering to deploy models to serve our worldwide customer base.

Position Overview:

We are looking for an Applied Science Intern in Paris, France to join our team and and develop machine learning and computer vision models for the Entrust product lines, in particular fraud detection and data extraction on government IDs and biometrics data. You will work together with a team of scientist who will coach and train you during your internship.

We use state-of-the-art technology (deep learning, VLMs), own a large proprietary dataset of images and videos and use a multi-GPU cluster. We use standard frameworks (python, pytorch, tensorflow, dask, AWS). We impact production directly but also the machine learning community. We publish our work [1] [2] [3] and attend international conferences.

[1] FADE: Few-shot/zero-shot Anomaly Detection Engine using Large Vision-Language Model, Yuanwei Li, Lisa Ivanova, Martins Bruveris, accepted at BMVC’2024, arxiv

[2] https://github.com/gietema/clusterfun

[3] https://github.com/martinsbruveris/tensorflow-image-models

Responsibilities: 

• You will contribute to research on Vision Language Models (VLMs) for fraud detection, face matching and document extraction

• You will work on unique, large-scale image and video datasets and train models on state-of-the-art GPUs

• Your work will impact products used by dozens of millions of users worldwide

• You will be mentored by a senior machine learning scientist to make sure you are successful in your mission

• You will have the opportunity to publish and open-source your work

• You will be part of a vibrant team of 15+ Applied Scientists based in Paris and London

Basic Qualifications  

• Currently enrolled in a Computer Science Master's or PhD degree or a related field

• Proficiency with a modern deep learning framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow)

• Ability to write research code in Python

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Strong willingness to learn

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Practical experience in deep learning, especially for computer vision tasks.

• Prototyping ideas from research papers.

• Working knowledge of cloud computing (preferably AWS) and tools such as git.

About Entrust

Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments, and data protection around the globe. Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, or accessing corporate networks. With our unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.

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Entrust Corporation is an EOE/AA/Veteran/People with Disabilities employer.

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