Job Details

Applied Researcher – Video Generation

We're representing a seed-stage client at the absolute forefront of generative vision. This team is one of the very few in the world training their own video generation models from scratch, with a focus on capturing human emotion for the creative market.

About the Company

• Backed by renowned investors including Y Combinator
• Platform has already generated over 1 million videos and is experiencing rapid growth
• Mission-driven team building the world's best video foundation model for expressive emotion.

What We're Looking For

• PhD in a relevant field with a strong publication record (ideally multiple first-author papers in generative vision, transformers, diffusion models, or GANs)
• Deep experience training large-scale ML models from scratch—vision transformers, diffusion models, and/or GANs
• Passion for building and scaling new AI architectures from scratch
• Excitement for working hands-on with internet-scale video data
• Track record of scientific rigor, curiosity, and high-velocity experimentation

What You'll Do

• Train and optimize cutting-edge video generation models across 100s of GPUs
• Distill and deploy models for efficient, high-quality inference
• Drive research and development, proactively bringing new ideas from the latest academic literature
• Collaborate with a world-class team to shape the future of AI video