Generative Modeling Jobs

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Research Manager to lead a team focused on fundamental research in post-training and autonomous agents. This role involves advancing reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating in complex real-world systems. The manager will provide technical leadership, mentor researchers and engineers, shape research direction, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into products. This position is ideal for an experienced researcher or technical leader who wants to maintain hands-on research involvement while leading a high-performing team.

$244k - $305k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. The Helix team is responsible for developing the core AI systems that power humanoid autonomy. We are seeking a Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining to lead the development of large-scale video foundation models trained on diverse real-world and robot-collected data. This role focuses on pretraining models that learn from raw video, capturing motion, interaction, and temporal structure to enable downstream capabilities in perception, prediction, and embodied reasoning.

$200k - $400k

Descript's Research team focuses on building specialized models for specific editing workflow problems, aiming to ship them as production features used by millions of creators. This role is centered on multimodal understanding, developing models that perceive edited media like a human video editor. The goal is to enhance Descript's AI editing agent, Underlord, by enabling it to directly perceive media, judge its own output, and reason about creative choices beyond just project structure. This is an open research problem with a unique dataset available.

$197k - $263k

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to lead research in post-training and autonomous agents. This hands-on role involves advancing reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating in complex systems. You will define the technical direction for research programs, elevate the skills of your colleagues, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate research breakthroughs into Datadog's offerings.

$320k - $400k

As a Staff Research Scientist within Datadog AI Research (DAIR), you will drive research in foundation models and world models as a hands-on individual contributor. You will advance large-scale pre-training and multimodal learning across the diverse signals generated by distributed systems, including metrics, traces, logs, topology, and events. You will set the technical direction for ambitious research programs, raise the technical bar for the researchers and research engineers around you, and collaborate with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products.

$320k - $400k

Stability AI

We are seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist to join our Research team, focusing on advancing the next generation of generative AI systems for professional creative workflows across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design. This role offers the opportunity for academic publication, long-horizon exploration, and technically ambitious work with meaningful product impact. The ideal candidate will be a broad, technically deep researcher capable of combining ideas across fields and modalities, connecting concepts from computer vision, graphics, generative modeling, and design to address complex creative workflows. You will work on research enabling creators and enterprises to generate, edit, structure, refine, and reuse visual assets across modalities, supporting integrated media and design intent.

Sygaldry Technologies is pioneering quantum-accelerated AI servers to dramatically speed up AI training and inference, aiming to accelerate the path to superintelligence and address compute cost and energy challenges. Our AI servers integrate multiple qubit types in a fault-tolerant architecture for cost, scale, and speed. This role is within our AI & algorithms team, focusing on applying quantum approaches to AI problems, including generative modeling. You will work on real-world problems by taking scoped collaborations, understanding partner needs, prototyping solutions, benchmarking against existing methods, and communicating technical results.

$200k - $300k

Luma is seeking a Research Scientist to transform their industry-leading generative video models into interactive, controllable, and physically faithful world models. This role is central to the company's mission, focusing on inventing next-generation world-model architectures and developing the controllability mechanisms that enable agents to operate within these generated environments. You will define and own the key metrics for success, conduct scaling studies, and contribute to open-source releases. This is a broad and open-ended research problem for individuals with deep expertise in generative modeling or model-based reinforcement learning.

Sygaldry Technologies is at the forefront of integrating quantum computing with artificial intelligence to create quantum-accelerated AI servers. Our mission is to exponentially speed up AI training and inference, addressing rising compute costs and energy bottlenecks. We are developing novel AI servers that combine multiple qubit types in a fault-tolerant architecture, aiming to deliver the cost, scale, and speed required for advanced AI applications. We are seeking individuals passionate about defining the intersection of quantum and AI and driving its global impact.

$200k - $300k

At Bland.com, we are building the models and infrastructure that make AI phone agent interactions feel natural, reliable, and genuinely human. We are a fast-growing company that has raised significant funding from leading investors. Voice is rapidly becoming the primary interface between businesses and their customers, and we are at the forefront of reimagining these interactions at scale. Our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents that are indistinguishable from human agents.

$160k - $280k

World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company focused on spatial intelligence, developing world models that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with virtual and physical worlds. Their flagship product, Marble, transforms text, images, and video into navigable 3D worlds, with applications across gaming, film, architecture, robotics, and immersive digital experiences. Backed by leading investors, World Labs is building a world-class team at the intersection of AI research and real-world deployment. This role is for a talented Research Scientist with a strong background in generative modeling, particularly diffusion models, to join the modeling team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in diffusion models applied to images, videos, or 3D assets and scenes. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and product teams to bring advanced 3D modeling and machine learning techniques into real-world applications, driving projects from conceptualization through to production deployment.

$250k - $325k

Cartesia is pioneering AI architectures that learn and interact with the world like humans. We are seeking a Researcher, Models to conduct groundbreaking research in neural network architecture design, focusing on advancing the state-of-the-art in alternative architectures such as state space models and efficient transformers. This role involves designing novel architectures to improve model quality and efficiency, exploring capabilities like long-range memory, and investigating the impact of architectural decisions on scalability and robustness. The researcher will also develop new frameworks for evaluating architectural innovations and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into real-world applications.

$180k - $350k