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Snap Inc. · 2 days ago

Research Scientist, Generative AI

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$173K/yr - $259K/yr

Snap Inc is a technology company focused on improving the way people live and communicate through innovative products. They are seeking a Research Scientist to join the Creative Vision Research Team, responsible for leading research projects that enhance creative generation and manipulation tools for their products.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead and execute a multi-year research agenda

Work on 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

Generative AIMachine LearningDeep LearningPythonC/C++StatisticsComputer VisionMultimodal Machine Learning3D Computer VisionCUDATechnical GuidanceProblem SolvingLeadershipCollaborationCommunication

Required

PhD in a related technical field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, machine learning or equivalent years of experience

Strong theoretical foundations of generative AI and practical experience training, tuning, and modifying generative models

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

Demonstrated ability in defining, leading and executing challenging research projects

Strong computer science fundamentals, problem solving skills, programming (Python, C, C++)

Ability to lead interns, PhD students, and junior researchers, defining scope of their projects and providing detailed technical guidance

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

Company

Snap Inc.

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Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

Founded in 2011

Santa Monica, California, US

5001-10000 employees

https://careers.snap.com/

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