Staff Research Scientist - Interactive Avatars

📋 Description

• Define the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling, balancing long-term
• Advance the perceptual capabilities of interactive AI agents, including understanding user audio
• Develop and post-train multimodal models capable of producing rich, natural, and responsive dyadic
• Adapt and extend diffusion models to incorporate conversational conditioning signals such as
• Research and develop models capable of generating natural conversational behaviors, including gaze
• Design robust evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and automated test suites to continuously measure

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in machine learning with extensive hands-on experience working with diffusion
• Strong research track record demonstrated through publications at leading conferences such as CVPR
• Expertise in areas such as video diffusion, world models, dyadic interaction modeling, multimodal
• Proven experience leading a small team of researchers and mentoring junior research talent.
• Demonstrated ability to take research concepts from initial idea through experimentation and into
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch and modern machine learning tooling for large-scale model training.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fully remote working option within Europe.
• Hybrid working opportunities for employees based near London, Munich, or Zurich offices.
• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays.
• Opportunity to work alongside a large team of AI researchers and engineers at the forefront of
• Direct opportunity to influence the research roadmap and development of emerging interactive AI