Staff Software Engineer - Computer Vision

Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world's leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.

About the role

In the past 3 years, Dandy has built the leading digital-first custom dental appliance manufacturer. As we go through our next level of scale, Dandy is building a world class team to enhance our 3D dental platform and automate many of the human-driven processes in our manufacturing today.

The team tackles problems involving 3D geometric computer vision, generative deep learning, and SOTA machine learning methods. You will  establish best practices, solve ambiguous imaging and rendering problems that have never been solved before with industry wide impact, and be given the freedom to innovate.

What You'll Do

• Make technical decisions on algorithmic strategy and data representations to help drive to business value quickly

• Setting up systems and best practices to accelerate interdisciplinary teams’ velocity 

• Guide junior engineers to bring research code into production 

• Implement current CV, ML, Inverse Rending and PBR approaches to solve the problems related to creating esthetic dental restorations

• Recover the optical properties of human teeth from images, 3D textures and meshes

• Learning the influence of lighting conditions on true color as it relates to teeth

• Learning the mapping between true color and manufacturing paints/ink and manufacturing processes

• Develop realistic rendering pipelines to aid in the design of color and optical properties of teeth to match patients

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years experience in software development

• 3+ years of experience in rendering or rendering adjacent projects (reconstruction, optical property rectification, ray tracing/casting, etc)

• 3+ years of experience in 2D or 3D computer vision 

• Experience bringing research product to market 

• Experience with one or more of the following:

  • Simulating/modeling optical properties of materials under different lighting conditions

  • Inverse rending, scene/object reconstruction from photos

  • Photo realistic rendering

  • Normalization of true color/material properties from different types of cameras/sensors.

  • Mapping desired optical properties of materials to inputs for manufacturing processes with the intent of controlling/matching the optical properties of the outputs from said manufacturing processes. 

  • Experience with neural rendering, NeRFs, lighting reconstruction, or a similar field in computer graphics.

Bonus Points For

• Masters/PhD in computer vision/computer graphics or related field

• Experience with photo realistic rendering and color restoration of teeth would be a bonus but not required 

For full time positions, we offer a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.

Dandy is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Dandy also fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. If you require any accommodations for your interview or have any questions beforehand, rest assured that we will move at Dandy speed and do everything in our power to meet your needs.