Research Scientist

• Set the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling, balancing long-term bets with near-term product impact
• Advance the state of the art in the perceptual layer of interactive agents, including understanding user audio and video and generating contextually appropriate reactions
• Post-train multimodal models to generate rich, natural dyadic interactions from user audio and video inputs
• Adapt diffusion models to conditioning signals such as conversational state, turn-taking, and listener cues
• Build robust evaluation frameworks and test suites for continuous tracking of interaction quality
• Partner with the data team to define data needs and shape high-quality datasets
• Lead and mentor a small group of researchers and drive technical decisions across research, data, and engineering
• Work on avatar-centric, interactive video diffusion models and turn breakthrough research into product capabilities that ship

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Staff Research Scientist – Interactive Avatars

• Join a team of 40+ researchers and engineers in R&D working on generative AI, avatar-centric interactive video diffusion models
• Contribute to research direction for dyadic interaction modeling and own well-scoped research problems end to end
• Advance the perceptual layer of interactive agents by understanding user audio and video and generating contextually appropriate reactions
• Post-train multimodal models to generate natural dyadic interactions from user audio and video inputs
• Adapt diffusion models to conditioning signals such as conversational state, turn-taking, and listener cues
• Build evaluation frameworks and test suites for tracking interaction quality
• Partner with the data team to define data needs and shape high-quality datasets
• Run rigorous experiments and share findings that inform technical decisions

Explore Research Scientist – Interactive Avatars at Synthesia. Review requirements and application details.