Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars

📋 Description

• Set the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling, balancing long-term bets
• Advance the state of the art in the perceptual layer of interactive agents, including understanding
• Post-train multimodal models to generate rich, natural dyadic interactions from user audio and
• Adapt diffusion models to new conditioning signals, such as conversational state, turn-taking, and
• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep ML expertise and extensive hands-on experience with diffusion models, ideally for video or
• A strong publication record at top-tier venues (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
• 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

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 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