Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Lead
Remote
Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.
Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.
About the role
We’re looking for a Research Team Lead to lead a group of Runway's Applied ML Research team. This person will be leading and driving the executions for new applied research projects. This person should have a strong research background in computer vision, and be deeply interested in managing and enabling other researchers to develop state-of-the-art research.
This is a cross-functional role that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production, as well as with the Product team to initiate and work on projects that deliver clear user value.
What you’ll do
- Lead and grow a group of Runway’s applied machine learning research team
- Coordinate with the product team and the rest of the engineering team to define goals for your team that are aligned with overall company initiatives
- Write tooling and prototypes to unblock and increase the productivity of other researchers
- Work with a world-class engineering & research team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser
What you’ll need
- 4+ years of industry experience as a research scientist in computer vision
- High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring other researchers
- Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
- Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
- Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on …
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Tasks- Lead research team
AI C Collaboration Communication Computer Vision Content Creation Creativity Cross-functional Collaboration Deep Learning Machine Learning Mentoring Prototyping Tooling
Experience4 years