Computer Vision Instructor, Vaisala Xweather, Espoo

About the role

As a Computer Vision Instructor, your primary goal is to produce and validate high-quality annotation data for AI model training. This role is crucial for improving AI model performance and the continuous development of the RoadAI product, ensuring data integrity, reliability, and technical quality.

Xweather is a portfolio of advanced environmental and weather services developed by Vaisala. It integrates real-time data, AI-powered analytics, and forecasting tools to help businesses and public organizations make better decisions. One of the leading solutions in this portfolio is RoadAI, a cloud-based road condition monitoring and infrastructure management service. With RoadAI, road networks are assessed using video footage captured via mobile devices – often smartphones mounted on windshields – which is then processed with computer vision and AI algorithms to detect road conditions and defects. RoadAI is widely used across the UK, Northern Europe (including Germany and France), and North America, with a growing presence globally.

You are offered

• A great opportunity to work with products and systems that help save lives and mitigate climate change, e.g., in weather forecasting around the world
• Permanent employment through Academic Work, offering a great opportunity to grow as a professional, extend your network, and establish valuable contacts for the future
• Lunch benefit and extensive occupational health care
• Opportunity to be recruited to Vaisala if you thrive and succeed in the role

Work tasks

This role involves meticulous data annotation and validation to train and refine AI models for road environment analysis. You will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and quality of visual data that powers our innovative RoadAI product, working closely with development teams.

• Annotate road assets, damage, and traffic signs using proprietary tools
• Inspect video and image material for camera errors, lens quality, windshield damage, and recording disturbances
• Ensure dataset quality, evaluate, and validate AI model results
• Adhere to annotation guidelines and contribute to their development
• Report work progress using Jira
• Collaborating closely with the product and development teams

We are looking for

• Suitable education background (e.g. IT)
• Excellent focus and precision
• Good visual perception and detail recognition
• Ability to work with large volumes of image and video data for several hours daily
• Self-directed and proactive work approach
• Good communication skills
• Basic data proficiency (e.g., Jira, Excel)
• Fluent English (working language)

It is meritorious if you have

• Previous experience in annotation, data QA, or Computer Vision projects
• Experience in an office environment or larger company setting
• Interest in technical learning (basic coding, CV/ML fundamentals)
• Finnish language skills (not mandatory)

To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:

• Stress tolerant
• Orderly
• Stable
• Responsible
• Intellectually curious

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.

Vaisala Xweather

Vaisala Oyj is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. Our team of over 2,300 experts and 59 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

Xweather is a portfolio of advanced environmental and weather services developed by Vaisala. It integrates real-time data, AI-powered analytics, and forecasting tools to help businesses and public organizations make better decisions.