Cantina Labs
Research Scientist, Video Foundation Models
$200K–$320K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Sunnyvale
About the job
Develop and scale native video and multimodal foundation models across research, training, evaluation, post-training, and efficient inference.
What you'll do
- Research and scale video and multimodal models through pre-training, continued training, and post-training.
- Develop architectures, objectives, conditioning methods, and pipelines for generation, multimodal interaction, and audio-video generation.
- Run experiments on model quality, controllability, consistency, robustness, and efficiency; collaborate on technical direction and research outputs.
What they ask for
- Strong research and engineering experience in generative modeling, such as diffusion models, flow matching, DiTs, video generation, or multimodal models.
- Hands-on experience training and evaluating large-scale image, video, or unified multimodal models using modern deep learning frameworks and distributed training systems.
- Track record of impactful models or systems, shown through publications, open-source work, production impact, or other significant technical work.
- Ability to own ambiguous research problems and specialized depth in one or more foundation-model lifecycle areas.
Pay
$200,000-$320,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
diffusion models, flow matching, DiTs
AI focus
Research and develop native video and multimodal foundation models for generation and understanding, including reference- and memory-based generation, multimodal interaction, and joint audio-video generation.
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