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Research Scientist, World Models Graduate (Intelligent Creation) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Research and develop multimodal data and training pipelines and video-generation models, improving their long-term consistency, physical dynamics, object interactions, and causal reasoning.
What you'll do
- Develop large-scale, diverse, interactive multimodal data-generation and long-context interactive video-generation training pipelines.
- Advance video-generation models using large-scale multimodal data.
- Explore products built around artificial intelligence technology.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong coding skills in Python/C++.
- High competence in algorithms and programming.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in GenAI, multimodal foundation models, or Embodied AI.
- First-author publications at venues such as CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, or ICML; ability to communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate across research teams.
Tools
Python, C++, SFT/RL
AI focus
Post-train multimodal models and LLMs; develop image and video generation models; optimize agentic foundation models, tool-calling, and long-horizon tasks; research agentic RL.
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