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Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Lead

new york city, NY

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About this opportunity

Runway lists this Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Lead opportunity in new york city, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

We’re looking for Applied Research Scientists to help us develop cutting‑edge computer vision and generative models to power our creative tools. We are looking for candidates with a strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects, strong software engineering skills, and who are deeply interested in seeing their research materialize in novel user interfaces for creative tasks.

This is a cross‑functional team that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with our backend team to help bring your research models to production, and with our design and frontend engineering team to make sure that your machine learning models work in harmony with the user interfaces that interact with them.

What you’ll do

Develop innovative research projects in computer vision, focusing on generative models for image and video.

Build new computer vision pipelines for automating visual effects tasks (such as video segmentation, pinpointing, tracking).

Work with a world‑class engineering team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser.

Collaborate closely with the rest of the product organization to bring cutting‑edge machine learning models to production.

What you’ll need

5+ years of relevant engineering or research experience in machine learning, computer vision and/or graphics

Expertise with programming such as Python, C++, CUDA, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code

Deep interest in building human‑in‑the‑loop systems for creativity

Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application

Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers

Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Compensation

Salary range:

$280,000-$370,000

Equal Opportunity

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

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Worksite address

new york city, NY, 10261, US

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