AimBrain | London, UK | Engineering | FULL-TIME (ONSITE), INTERNS (prefer onsite, but OK REMOTE)
AimBrain is the mobile biometric authentication platform. We help our clients to know if their users really are who they say they are. The platform currently consists of three modalities - behavioural, facial and voice.
Our founding team is highly technical and consists of ex-ARM, European Space Agency and CERN engineers and doctorates working on the most recent machine learning advancements to deliver the best solution for mobile biometric authentication.
Founded in July 2014 and based in London, we are backed by a highly respected London VC and are rapidly expanding our team to deliver multiple projects with the major UK high street banks and security companies.
We are currently hiring for full-stack and machine learning positions to form the founding team which will grow with the company. We are also looking for kick-ass iOS/Android/Web developers on either CONTRACTING or INTERNING basis.
Nothing specific. Anything that has mechanical design, electronics or software development. I think research topics should be left to the academics themselves. I am interested in supporting infrastructure / software / hardware.
1) Discipline (e.g. dedicate 1 hour daily towards a single project until you finish it)
2) Leverage. Think about which thing / project will provide you with the most leverage in the long run. (e.g. doing ML course will allow you to achieve so much more with new gained skills than (likely) learning discrete mathematics.)
I personally chose to start a business which allows me to have significantly higher learning rate than otherwise would be possible, which compounds over time to significantly more leverage in long term. Do mind, now I am sacrificing my living standards compared to same-age peers (working in big companies), but life is a marathon, not a sprint :)
>The problem I have is something akin to paralysis of choice
Yup, had exactly the same problem myself. What I did was to introduce a ranking score for each project I might want to do and then just do the top one. I constantly add to the list and only remove projects if I do them / have learned they are not going to work / get new information which pushes them down/up in the ranking.
Series of questions I use to evaluate the project: What problem does this solve?; How does the MVP look like?; What is potential monetary upside?; What is potential personal-brand upside?; What are the potential risks?; What is the required time / monetary / etc budget?; Who is this project targeted at most?; Will there be new skills-of-interest learned?; Will this project lead to bigger projects?.
Each question has a 1-5 score slide which I later sum up with custom weights to a "final score" which I then use to rank the projects.
Hey! I have a very similar story to yours, Scotland Edinburgh, same age, moved 6 months ago to London, software dev working in a startup :)
There are many ways you can build your friend circles in London.
Few things I do myself: attend many meetups with relevant topics to my hobbies and career path; occasionally work on my projects in London Hackspace (https://london.hackspace.org.uk) where I meet MANY awesome people :) (p.s. LHS has an open social night, check it out)
AimBrain is the mobile biometric authentication platform. We help our clients to know if their users really are who they say they are. The platform currently consists of three modalities - behavioural, facial and voice.
Our founding team is highly technical and consists of ex-ARM, European Space Agency and CERN engineers and doctorates working on the most recent machine learning advancements to deliver the best solution for mobile biometric authentication.
Founded in July 2014 and based in London, we are backed by a highly respected London VC and are rapidly expanding our team to deliver multiple projects with the major UK high street banks and security companies.
We are currently hiring for full-stack and machine learning positions to form the founding team which will grow with the company. We are also looking for kick-ass iOS/Android/Web developers on either CONTRACTING or INTERNING basis.
* Ping us at: https://aimbrain.com/joinus :)
* Or drop us a line at: founders [] aimbrain.com
Thanks!