Senior Research Engineer - Multimodal & Video Foundation Model

Senior Research Engineer - Multimodal & Video Foundation Model

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Why Join Us? Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world. If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space, this is your opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards.

About The Job : As a member of the AI model team, you will drive innovation in architecture development for cutting-edge models of various scales, including small, large, and multi-modal systems. Your work will enhance intelligence, improve efficiency, and introduce new capabilities to advance the field.

You will have a deep expertise in video generation model architectures with a hands-on, research-driven approach. Your mission is to explore and implement novel techniques and algorithms that lead to groundbreaking advancements : data curation, strengthening baselines, identifying and resolving existing pre-training bottlenecks to push the limits of model performance.

Responsibilities :

• Pioneer multimodal and video-centric research that moves fast and breaks ground, contributing directly to usable prototypes and scalable systems.
• Design and implement novel AI architectures for multimodal language models, integrating text, visual, and audio modalities.
• Engineer scalable training and inference pipelines optimized for large-scale multimodal datasets and distributed GPU systems across thousands of GPUs.
• Optimize systems and algorithms for efficient data processing, model execution, and pipeline throughput.
• Build modular tools for preprocessing, analyzing, and managing multimodal data assets (e.g., images, video, text).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with research and engineering teams to translate cutting-edge model innovations into production-grade solutions.
• Prototype generative AI applications showcasing new capabilities of multimodal foundation models in real-world products.
• Develop benchmarking tools to rigorously evaluate model performance across diverse multimodal tasks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expertise in Python & Pytorch, including practical experience working with the full development pipeline from data processing & data loading to training, inference, and optimization.
• Experience working with large-scale text data, or (bonus) interleaved data spanning audio, video, image, and / or text.
• Direct hands-on experience in developing or benchmarking at least one of the following topics : LLMs, Vision Language Models, Audio Language Models, generative video models.

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