Synthesia
AI video platform
PrincipalResearchEngineer
“Principal Research Engineer at Synthesia. Skills: video generation, generative models, technical leadership, research strategy. Own end-to-end technical direction. Define unified long-term roadmap”
What You'll Achieve.
shipping better models faster; seeing work land in product; reach users
Industry & Context.
resolve the hardest cross-cutting technical problems; unblock technical gaps; accelerate problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
training large generative models from scratch, data quality, multi-year research direction, cross-functional influence, technical leadership
Nice to Have
major model generation or capability jump end-to-end, pre-training and post-training stages on the same model family, large distributed training runs, significant compute budgets, multi-million hour data pipelines, alignment and fine-tuning techniques in a video or multimodal context, human feedback pipelines applied to generative video or audio, leading or significantly influencing the technical direction of a research team
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end technical direction
Define unified long-term roadmap
Identify critical technical gaps
Increase research to product velocity
Coach junior researchers and engineers
Shape team structure and refine processes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner directly with research leadership; partner with PMs; shape how teams work together; communication across research and product
Communication Scope
communicate with clarity
Process & Methodology
drive execution against roadmap, broken into achievable objectives
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