Snap Inc. · 1 day ago
Senior Research Scientist, Generative AI
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$209K/yr - $313K/yr
2+ years expSnap Inc. is a technology company that believes in enhancing the way people live and communicate through innovative products. They are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead and execute a multi-year research agenda focused on generative AI, collaborating with teams to develop technology that impacts millions of users.
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Responsibilities
Define, lead and execute a multi-year research agenda
Architect and implement large-scale multimodal generative projects
Share your expertise with other teammates and interns
Publish your work to top conferences
Partner with engineering teams to deliver your technology to millions of Snapchatters
Qualification
Required
PhD in a related technical field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, machine learning or equivalent years of experience
2+ years of industry or postdoc experience with large scale generative AI, building foundational models, and large model training in academia or industry
Experience with large scale, distributed training across hundreds of machines and cloud computing
Experience with large-scale data collection and annotation best practices
Track record of publications in top-tier international research venues (e.g. ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH)
Strong technical knowledge of statistics, machine learning, vision and state-of-the-art deep learning literature
Proven record of defining, leading and executing challenging research projects
Strong computer science fundamentals, problem solving skills, programming (Python, C, C++)
Proven ability to lead interns, PhD students, junior researchers or ML engineers
Preferred
Experience with multimodal machine learning, involving images, videos, audio, text, speech
Experience with 3D computer vision, non-rigid and articulated 3D registration and synthesis
Experience with efficient Gen AI techniques, such as quantization, pruning, distillation, efficient training for generation and understanding, parameter- and data-efficient learning, and efficient VLMs
Experience with low level vision techniques, such as image and video quality assessment, compression, restoration, and super-resolution
Experience with 3D Articulated human motion generation
Experience with CUDA framework and low level optimization of generative pipelines for training and inference
Strong theoretical background in generative modeling and diffusion models
Benefits
Paid parental leave
Comprehensive medical coverage
Emotional and mental health support programs
Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Equity in the form of RSUs
Company
Snap Inc.
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.
5001-10000 employees
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