What are the responsibilities and job description for the Member of Technical Staff, Model Evaluation position at Captions?
Captions is the leading video AI company, building the future of video creation. Over 10 million creators and businesses have used Captions to create videos for social media, marketing, sales, and more. We're on a mission to serve the next billion.
We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. You'll join an early team and have an outsized impact on the product and the company's culture.
We're very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures (Series C lead), Kleiner Perkins (Series B lead), Sequoia Capital (Series A and Seed co-lead), Andreessen Horowitz (Series A and Seed co-lead), Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.
Check out our latest financing milestone and some other coverage :
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Time : The Best Inventions of 2024
- Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)
About the Role :
Captions is seeking an exceptional Research Engineer (MOTS) to advance the state-of-the-art in large-scale multimodal video diffusion models. You'll conduct novel research on generative modeling architectures, develop new training techniques, and scale models to billions of parameters. As a key member of our ML Research team, you'll work at the cutting edge of multimodal generation while building systems that enable natural, controllable video creation. We're already training large-scale models with demonstrated product impact, and we're excited to continue expanding the scope and capabilities of our research.
We're especially excited about pushing the boundaries of audio-video generation, with a focus on realistic and charismatic human behavior that enables natural storytelling and creative iteration. Our models power creative tools used by millions of creators, and we're tackling fundamental challenges in how to generate compelling human motion, expression, and speech.
Key Responsibilities :
Research & Architecture Development :
Model Training & Optimization :
Technical Innovation :
Requirements :
Research Experience :
Technical Expertise :
Engineering Capabilities :
About the Team :
You'll work directly alongside our research and engineering teams in our NYC office. We've intentionally built a culture where technical innovation and research excellence are highly valued - your success will be measured by your contributions to improving our models and advancing the field, not by your ability to navigate politics. We're a team that loves diving deep into complex technical problems and emerging with practical breakthroughs.
Open technical discussions and collaboration.
Opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in video generation.
Benefits :
Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.
