Data Scientist (Computer Vision)

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. The key mission of this role will be to develop and deliver AI solutions & systems that transform the capability and coordination of one of the largest vertically integrated mine, rail and port operations in the world. The right candidate will bring a strong curiosity and technical perspective to these challenges, including experience in data science and AI algorithm & system design, along with a drive for delivering outcomes and working software in cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, development and implementation of AI computer vision algorithms to drive productivity in our integrated operations across mine, rail and port.
• Engaging and collaborating with internal stakeholders to shape requirements.
• Collecting, annotating, and pre-processing large datasets of images or videos for training and testing models, including data augmentation and normalisation.
• Develop test plan to evaluate system performance and ensure models generalise to real-world data.
• Continuously monitoring deployed models' performance and maintain the backlogs for development, re-training, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to prioritise their development.
• Deploying models to production environments, which involves containerisation and integration to cameras, lidar and PLCs.
• Staying up to date with developments in AI & ML and identifying opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into our system designs.

Qualifications and Experience

• An advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering or other quantitative scientific discipline.
• Experience (1-3 years) in data science and AI solution & system development with mining and heavy industrial operations applications is preferred.
• Strong understanding and practical experience in statistics, machine learning, causal inference and/or experimental design
• Solid knowledge of data science technologies, including programming languages such as Python and tools such as git, experience in frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or OpenCV.
• Experience with industrial communications protocols such as MQTT, Modbus and OPC are highly regarded.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in SQL and AWS platforms S3, EC2 and Sagemaker.
• Experience deploying models to production environments with the use of technologies like Docker and Kubernetes regarded.
• Candidates that can show prior impressive work are highly regarded.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.