Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Staff 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.

• Set the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling, balancing long-term bets with near-term product impact.
• 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

• Deep ML expertise and extensive hands-on experience with diffusion models, ideally for video or avatar generation.
• A strong publication record 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…
• Experience leading a small team of researchers and mentoring junior members.
• A track record of taking research from idea to production.
• Proficiency in PyTorch and modern ML tooling for large-scale training.

Tech stack

• React
• PyTorch