Creative Technologist

Lab Summary:

Samsung Design Innovation Center (SDIC) is looking for creative and amazing talents to join our team in San Francisco. We are reinventing the way we design products and manufacturing with computational design, AI an ML in its two office locations: Paris and San Francisco. In this new dynamic lab, we will solve inspirational and complex design problems to spark creativity, to optimize design concepts, and to design innovative products for the present and the future while collaborating between the two satellite offices. The lab will engage with various internal teams across the world to create globally-impacting designs by collecting data, developing models, and applying computations.

We are looking for talented designers and Creative Technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering new design opportunities, designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that re-imagine the way we interact with products.

Samsung Design Innovation Center is one of the leading overseas design studios in Samsung. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences, through beautiful yet functional design, enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.

The studio is working on various advanced product experiences which can shape the future of Samsung Businesses, working with various different internal teams through experience driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can't describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/

Position Summary:

The Creative Technologist understands modern technology and thinks creatively about how to use the technology in an innovative way that helps resolve human needs. You will have a creative design approach to utilize AI/ML in expanding and discovering problems and solutions rather than converging to one specific solution. You will be required to be hands-on in many different areas within the design lab (e.g. serving as a product and/or project manager and SW architect when necessary) to identify behavioral shifts, developing trends, user sentiments and reflect your discoveries to develop products that offer novel experiences.

Position responsibilities:

• Define new product platforms, architectures, strategies to architect and develop the best technical design approach and development of digital solutions and products while working closely with all aspects of the organization including management, engineers, UX/UI designers, programmers, SW quality etc.
• Drive platform research and experimentation, concept exploration, prototyping, and ideation within the creative process for crafting user experiences in software and services delivered through modern web technologies
• Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
• Bridge the gap between design and technology by providing technical direction throughout the design process to facilitate innovation
• Prototyping of new concepts in both physical and digital design
• Work with User Interaction Workflow providing input into User Experience design
• Communicate with other design and business functions, have excellent presentation skills, and participate as an active member in creative workshops and ideation sessions
• Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to Team /Stakeholders/Management
• Have a differentiated point of view and innovative thinking on a variety of product categories to inspire colleagues
• Contribute to team development (at times making vital considerations for the team versus individual)

Experience requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master' degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 3+years of experience computational graphics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, designing and building embedded devices, mobile, web, cloud based applications or equivalent
• Expert in application and software service programing languages with deep knowledge in: Mobile (android), Web (java, javascript, python, node, html), Embedded (FreeRTOS), Analytics, DevOps and MLOPs
• Creative approach and competency to design and manufacture while being consumer-minded
• Knowledge of current design software and techniques in both 2D and 3D and experience in tools for integrating new technology into a digital product solution with SW/HW product requirements
• Broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of comprehensive software systems, as well as demonstrated experience of successfully planning, organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic or startup environment
• Develop new techniques and processes to audit technologies
• Hands-on approach, flexible & agile, and comfortable experimenting with a fresh, original perspective
• Strong visual story-telling and communication skills
• Self-driven, willing to take action on launching novel projects ideas and developing concepts from scratch
• Travel International and Domestic and work overtime when needed