Senior Staff Research Scientist and Team Lead
Paris-based non-profit open-science AI research lab developing and releasing multimodal AI models, demos, code, and research.
Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026
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About Kyutai
Kyutai is an independent, non-profit AI research lab focused on open science. Its current work includes real-time speech and voice systems, vision-speech models, language models, and world models; it releases research artifacts and maintains interactive demos.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will set ambitious research goals and roadmaps, organise and lead a team, and contribute directly to research. You will publish reproducible work with models and code, mentor researchers, support strategic partnerships and external visibility, and contribute to long-term research direction.
Requirements
- Recognised researcher in machine learning or related fields
- 10+ years of experience in competitive environments
- Excellent publication track record in premier venues
- Key contributions to impactful projects
- Mentoring experience
- Experience leading a small team toward clear objectives
- Hands-on experience with multi-GPU model training
Responsibilities
- Set ambitious research goals and associated roadmaps
- Organise, lead and support a team to achieve research goals
- Contribute directly to research
- Publish reproducible research with models and code
- Mentor interns, PhD students and junior staff
- Act as a role model
- Contribute to strategic partnerships
- Contribute to external visibility
- Contribute to the long-term vision
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Assistance with immigration procedures