Runway
Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer
$270K–$370K
Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 9, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of experience in machine learning research or engineering.
About the job
Research Engineer developing multimodal world models through research, evaluation, and production deployment.
What you'll do
- Run experiments to teach world models new behaviors and develop data strategies, architectures, and training techniques.
- Design evaluations to measure capabilities and guide model improvement.
- Bring research prototypes into production and contribute across data pipelines, modeling, and inference.
What they ask for
- Familiarity with the architecture, training, and inference of large-scale multimodal generative models.
- Experience building robust pretraining and post-training data pipelines and working across data, training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Proficiency with at least one ML framework (e.g. PyTorch, JAX) and experience with distributed training at scale.
Pay
$270K – $370K (USD, base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Developing multimodal foundational models, interactive world models, and real-time generation, including pretraining, SFT/RL post-training, evaluation, and production deployment.
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