Prototype Researcher
Runway is an AI company building generative media, developer, and robotics products on top of its real-world intelligence and general world models.
Funding history
About Runway
Runway provides a cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images, and audio; an API platform for developers; and a robotics toolkit for policy inference, simulation, and synthetic data generation powered by its GWM-1 general world model.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will imagine, design, and build experimental experiences that make emerging AI capabilities tangible. You will develop concepts, turn them into working prototypes, and package them into polished demos, films, and interactive experiences. You will collaborate to explore interfaces for AI-generated video, world models, and agentic systems, using experimentation to refine each experience and its narrative.
Requirements
- Portfolio demonstrating creative thinking, design craft, technical execution, and storytelling
- Ability to take ideas from early concepts to working prototypes and compelling presentations
- Experience building interactive coded experiences
- Visual and interaction design skills
- Knowledge of AI video, world models, agentic systems, and generative media
- Ability to work in ambiguous research environments and learn new tools
- Ability to communicate work through writing, visuals, demos, or film
Responsibilities
- Develop original concepts for emerging AI systems and agentic experiences
- Design and build working prototypes from research capabilities
- Shape the story and narrative for each exploration
- Package projects into polished demos, films, and interactive experiences
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to demonstrate new capabilities
- Experiment quickly to test and refine experiences and narratives