synthesia - Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars
Requirements
• 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 equivalent demonstrated impact. • 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. • Clear communication of hypotheses, experiments, and results, and the ability to influence direction across teams. • Experience with real-time or streaming generation, including autoregressive video diffusion. • Distillation or other techniques for low-latency inference. • Audio-driven facial, gesture, or full-body motion modeling. • Conversational modeling, such as turn-taking, backchanneling, or listener-response generation.
Responsibilities
• 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. • Partner with our data team to define data needs and shape high-quality datasets. • Lead and mentor a small group of researchers, and drive technical decisions across research, data, and engineering.
Benefits
• We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why, • At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here. https://www.notion.so/How-we-work-at-Synthesia-f794caa72f8446efb6be22b551ce0fa2?pvs=21 • SERVING 50,000+ CUSTOMERS (AND 50% OF THE FORTUNE 500) • We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers https://www.synthesia.io/case-studies and what 1,200+ people say on G2 https://www.g2.com/products/synthesia/reviews#reviews. • PROPRIETARY AI TECHNOLOGY • Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind. https://www.synthesia.io/research • AI SAFETY, ETHICS AND SECURITY • AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first. Always. Learn more about our commitments to AI Ethics, Safety & Security https://www.synthesia.io/ethics. • THE GOOD STUFF... • Hybrid work setting with an office in London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Munich, or remote in Europe. • 25 days of annual leave + public holidays • Great company culture with the option to join regular planning and socials at our hubs • + other benefits depending on your location • You can see more about Who we are and How we work here: https://www.synthesia.io/careers https://www.synthesia.io/careers
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