Research Scientist, Animation Direction, Level 4
Research Scientist, Animation Direction, Level 4
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Job Description
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.
We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our Computational Imaging Research Team! The Computational Imaging team in NYC focuses on enhancing user experiences with our photo and short form video products and enabling our creators to make Lenses more easily in Lens Studio. Specifically our core focus in 2025 is on improving image and video quality (quality assessment video super resolution compression image editing) and animations (animation generation 3D avatar video generation for animations). Our research areas include computer vision computational imaging/photography 3d motion/video generation efficient VLMs and more.
What youll do:
Propose and develop cutting-edge multimodal techniques for 3D human animation and video generation enabling expressive Bitmoji avatars and next-gen Snapchat video gen experiences
Build models that map text audio video and music to 3D animation and drive video generation downstream tasks such as background video generation for animation rendering and audio-driven lip synced video generation
Advance avatar technologies including animatable 3D Gaussian avatars head/body reconstruction and animation control
Collaborate with product teams to deploy research at scale and publish at top-tier academic venues
Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
Ability to define impactful research problems and deliver practical solutions both in academic and product contexts
Deep expertise in human motion modeling facial/body animation and generative modeling (e.g. text-to-motion text-to-image text-to-video etc)
Familiarity with video generation avatar representations (e.g. mesh NeRF Gaussian) and rendering pipelines
Strong prototyping and engineering skills (Python PyTorch C) familiar with large scale distributed ML training on GCP/AWS clusters
Proven ability to lead and mentor interns PhD students and junior researchers as well as collaborate effectively with product teams
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Minimum Qualifications:
PhD in a technical field such as Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
Hands-on experience with mainstream generative models (Diffusion Transformers GANs VAEs) for animation or video
Research or product experience in either of the following: 3D human motion generation from various signals such as text or audio; image/video generation; 3D avatar reconstruction and animation; or multimodal generation
Preferred Qualifications:
Publications in top-tier venues as the main contributor (e.g. CVPR SIGGRAPH NeurIPS ICCV ECCV ICLR); contributed to popular open-source projects code/dataset release
Hands-on experience in large scale dataset curation and distributed ML model training such as image/video generation model pre-training or post-training
Strong foundation in computer vision 3D graphics and multimodal learning
Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.
At Snap we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. EOE including disability/vets. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please dont be shy and contact us at
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please dont be shy and provide us some information.
Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.
At Snap we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. EOE including disability/vets.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring where applicable).
Compensation
In the United States work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications work location and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.
The base salary range for this position is $173000-$259000 annually.This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.
Employment Type
Full-Time
