Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars

About the job

Responsibilities

• Set research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling, balancing long-term research with near-term product impact.
• Advance state-of-the-art in perceptual layers of interactive agents, including understanding user audio/video and generating appropriate reactions.
• Post-train multimodal models to generate natural dyadic interactions from user audio and video inputs.
• Adapt diffusion models to new conditioning signals like conversational state and turn-taking.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks and test suites for tracking interaction quality.
• Partner with the data team to define data needs and shape high-quality datasets.
• Lead and mentor a small group of researchers and drive technical decisions across research, data, and engineering.

Requirements

• Deep ML expertise and extensive hands-on experience with diffusion models, ideally for video or avatar generation.
• Strong publication record at top-tier venues in relevant AI fields or equivalent demonstrated impact.
• Experience leading a small team of researchers and mentoring junior members.
• 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 ability to influence cross-team direction.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Hybrid work setting with offices in London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Munich, or remote in Europe.
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays
• Great company culture
• Option to join regular planning and socials at hubs
• Other benefits depending on location