Project Manager in Computer Vision

Tecnalia is the largest private Research, Development and Innovation (R+D+i) group in Spain and one of the leading ones in Europe. Tecnalia’s lemma is to develop technologies that can be converted in value and benefits for our clients and the overall society. One of the main targets of any Tecnalia project is the technology development and transfer towards the industry.

The Smart Systems unit, within the Industry and Transport division, has one technological platform in computer vision (more information available at http://computervisionbytecnalia):

• Surface Automated Inspection and Quality Control for Industry
• Machine learning, Deep learning for classification, detection.
• Photonics, images acquiring and interpretation of non-visible channels (thermography, Raman, Libs, Multi-photon)

What do we offer?

The open position is as Project Manager within a private research center, thus driving the identification of new business opportunities, unexpressed requirements from our clients as well as definition and cost evaluation of the solution proposed in commercial offers, contributions to European projects proposals, as well as contributions to the team technological strategy and management.

The position is divided into two main roles:

• Project management: the person will be responsible for the quality assurance of the projects and the excellence of their execution (goal achievement, planning, resources, and customer satisfaction) through the leadership of mixed technical teams. One of the main targets of any Tecnalia project is the technology transfer towards the industry.
• Complex projects commercial activity: the person will belong to the sales force of the division, being hence responsible for promoting business and interacting with current and potential customers.  The main duties will be: identification of customer’s needs, definition of technical solutions with the support of the project team, negotiation of terms and conditions…

Who are you?
Autonomous and dedicated, you have an innovative spirit and you are eager to move next generation computer vision developments to real world applications, identifying and solving client’s needs: from the first conceptual ideas to the validation in real-condition pilot prototypes.

You have proven knowledge of computer vision. You have very good communication (oral and written) skills, are problem-solving oriented and you are comfortable with teamwork, in different languages and locations