Member of Technical Staff - Applied Research

About the role

*Open to hiring remote across North America and Europe — we also have offices in NYC San Francisco Seattle London and Tel Aviv

We’re looking for Applied Research Scientists to help us develop cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to power our creative tools. We are looking for candidates with a strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects strong software engineering skills and who are deeply interested in seeing their research materialize in novel user interfaces for creative tasks.

This is a cross-functional team that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with our backend team to help bring your research models to production and with our design and frontend engineering team to make sure that your machine learning models work in harmony with the user interfaces that interact with them.

What you’ll need

• 4+ years of relevant engineering or research experience in machine learning computer vision and/or graphics

• Expertise with programming such as Python C++ CUDA and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code

• Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity

• Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application

• Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers

• Strong communication collaboration and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size stage and industry and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations including relevant experience skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions there may be a change in the range which again will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $260000-$370000