Sr Research Engineer - Post-Training team
Sr Research Engineer - Post-Training team
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Who are we
From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies AI will transform the way we create and consume content.
Today people want to watch and listen not read both at home and at work. If youre reading this and nodding check out our brand video.
Despite the clear preference for video communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text largely because highquality video production remains complex and challenging to scaleuntil now.
Meet Synthesia
Were on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process making it easy for everyone regardless of skill level to create collaborate and share highquality videos. Whether its for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. Were trusted by leading brands such as Heineken Zoom Xerox McDonalds and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1200 people say on G2.
In 2023 we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024 G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. In 2025 we announced our series D funding. In total weve raised over $330M in funding from toptier investors including NEA Atlassian Ventures WiL PSP Growth and existing investors such as Accel Nvidia Kleiner Perkins GV and top founders and operators including Stripe Datadog Miro Webflow and Facebook.
About the role
As a Research Engineer you will join a team of 40 Researchers and Engineers within the R&D Department working on cutting edge challenges in the Generative AI space with a focus on creating highly realistic emotional and lifelike Synthetic humans through texttovideo. Within the team youll have the opportunity to work on the applied side of our research efforts and directly impact our solutions that are used worldwide by over 55000 businesses.
If you are an expert in posttraining Diffusion models for generative AI this is your chance. This is an opportunity to work for a company that is impacting businesses at a rapid pace across the globe.
What will you be doing
In this position youll join our PostTraining Team that works on generative video creation.
You will make it possible to apply our foundational models to production use cases. While efficiency is one aspect youll also work on specialising our pretrained networks to new use cases.
This would include:
- Implement posttraining optimization techniques such as quantization and distillation to improve the efficiency of diffusion models used in avatar generation.
- Analyze and address challenges related to model performance ensuring highquality output in avatar rendering.
- Stay updated with the latest research and advancements in diffusion models and posttraining optimization methods.
Who are you
- You have a background in Computer Vision / Computer Science and 3 years of industry experience.
- You have knowledge of recent advancements in posttraining techniques. (for instance Distillation and Quantization)
- You have worked with Generative Models for images and/or videos (Diffusion/GAN) preferably in the avatar domain.
- You are interested in doing research trying new things and pushing the boundaries going beyond whats already known.
- You have experience in using most modern frameworks for machine learning and deep learning.
- You have great coding skills in Python and you care about writing clean code.
- You have experience with SDLC tools (Git) preferably CI/CD
The good stuff...
- Attractive compensation (salary stock options bonus)
- Private Health Insurance in London
- Hybrid work setting with an office in London Amsterdam Munich or Zurich
- 25 days of annual leave public holidays
- Work in a great company culture with the option to join regular planning and socials at our hubs
- A generous referral scheme when you know people that are amazing for us
- Strong opportunities for your career growth
You can see more about Who we are and How we work here: Experience:
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