Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer

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Remote2026-01-09Remote

About the job

We’re looking for Research Engineers to contribute to our ambitious research agenda spanning multimodal foundational models, interactive world modeling, and real-time generation. This role is highly collaborative and will touch many aspects of our broader research efforts, taking a full-stack approach across pretraining, SFT/RL post-training techniques, evaluation, and bringing models to production.

Responsibilities

- Run experiments to teach world models new behaviors — action following, scene manipulation, camera control, and beyond

- Develop and test new data strategies, architectural variants, and training techniques

- Design evaluations that measure model capabilities, and use them to drive model improvement

- Take features from research prototype to production, collaborating with product and creative teams to address application-specific gaps

- Contribute across the entire stack (data pipelines, modeling, production inference) to move projects forward

Qualifications

Minimum

- 4+ years of experience in machine learning research or engineering

- Familiarity with the architecture, training, and inference of large-scale multimodal generative models

- Experience building robust data pipelines for pretraining and post-training

- Comfort working across the full research stack: data, training, evaluation, and deployment

- Proficiency with at least one ML framework (e.g. PyTorch, JAX) and experience with distributed training at scale

- Ability to context-switch quickly and drive projects forward in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.