Staff Research Scientist - Interactive Avatars
Synthesia is an active London-based enterprise AI video platform that lets businesses create, localize, manage, and publish videos using AI avatars and voiceovers.
Funding history
About Synthesia
Synthesia Limited provides browser-based AI video creation for business communications, training, sales enablement, marketing, and support. Its platform includes AI-assisted creation, avatars, voiceovers, translation/localization, collaboration, and publishing workflows.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will set the research direction for dyadic interaction modeling and lead researchers working on multimodal diffusion models for interactive avatars. You will advance perceptual models, post-train and adapt models, build evaluation systems, shape datasets, and drive technical decisions across research, data, and engineering.
Requirements
- Deep machine learning expertise
- Extensive hands-on experience with diffusion models
- Strong publication record at top-tier research venues or equivalent demonstrated impact
- Experience leading researchers and mentoring junior members
- Track record of taking research from idea to production
- Proficiency in PyTorch and modern machine learning tooling for large-scale training
- Clear communication and ability to influence direction across teams
Responsibilities
- Set the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling
- Advance perceptual modeling for interactive agents
- Post-train multimodal models for natural dyadic interactions
- Adapt diffusion models to conversational conditioning signals
- Build evaluation frameworks and test suites
- Define data needs and shape high-quality datasets
- Lead and mentor researchers
- Drive technical decisions across research, data, and engineering
Benefits
- Hybrid work setting with offices in London, Zurich, or Munich, or remote work in Europe
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays
- Regular planning and social events at hubs
- Additional location-dependent benefits