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Computer Vision Researcher

Nagish

Nagish

Software Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Feb 8, 2026

Description

As Computer Vision Researcher at Nagish, you will lead the development and deployment of models that power our video generation, sign language animation, transcription, and gesture segmentation efforts. You will collaborate across teams to build models that are indistinguishable from human interpreters and help scale our impact through automation and cutting-edge research.

On a day to day, you will:

  • Use and extend models for pose estimation, gesture segmentation, sign language animation, and transcription
  • Integrate and champion a video generation pipeline that looks and feels like a human interpreter
  • Evaluate, optimize, and deploy computer vision models to production
  • Collaborate with the data engineer to build scalable training and inference pipelines
  • Automate and accelerate CV tasks for annotation and content generation

Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field, or equivalent industry experience
  • 3+ years working with PyTorch and computer vision models
  • Proven ability to take ML models from research to production
  • Solid understanding of machine learning, deep learning, optimization, and language models
  • Experience working with motion or sign language data is a strong advantage
  • Publication record in top-tier computer vision or ML venues preferred
  • Strong Python skills and experience integrating models into cloud environments

Benefits:

😁 Work on a fulfilling life-changing product (Literally)

🗝️ Join as a key player at an early stage, and receive generous options

🏖 Unlimited time off and sick days

🌎 Hybrid work model

👯‍♂️ Annual company get-together

🐶 Bring your pet to work

About Us:

Nagish makes communication accessible for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

Our team is passionate about making the world more accessible using our state-of-the-art tech - made for consumers and enterprises.

We are backed by some of the best investors out there: Comcast, Techstars, Vertex, Precursor, Contour, Cardumen, and more.