Requirements

• 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 demonstrated impact.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.
• Experience mentoring students or junior researchers.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.
• Partner with our data team to define data needs and shape high-quality datasets.
• Run rigorous experiments, and share findings that inform the team's technical decisions.

Perks and Benefits

• Build production-scale video foundation models in a fast-growing Generative AI company
• Work on human-centric video generation with real-world impact
• Tackle hard problems in scaling, stability, and controllability
• Influence the direction of next-generation synthetic human technology
• Join a highly technical, high-ownership environment where your work ships