Research Scientist - Interactive Avatars

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Research Scientist, you will join a team of 40+ researchers and engineers in our R&D department, working on the frontier of generative AI with a focus on avatar-centric, interactive video diffusion models.

• Contribute to the research direction for dyadic interaction modeling, and own well-scoped research problems end to end.
• Advance the state of the art in the perceptual layer of interactive agents, including understanding user audio and video and generating contextually appropriate reactions.
• Post-train multimodal models to generate rich, natural dyadic interactions from user audio and video inputs.
• Adapt diffusion models to new conditioning signals, such as conversational state, turn-taking, and listener cues.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks and test suites for continuous tracking of interaction quality.

What they're looking for

• A strong ML background and hands-on experience with diffusion models, ideally for video or avatar generation.
• Publications at top-tier venues (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH) in areas such as world models, dyadic interaction, or video diffusion, or equivalent…
• Experience taking research ideas through to working implementations, and motivation to see them reach production.
• Proficiency in PyTorch and modern ML tooling for large-scale training.
• Clear communication of hypotheses, experiments, and results.

Tech stack

• React
• PyTorch