Snap Research is looking for a Research Scientist to join the Creative Vision Research Team to focus on making everyone a creator by developing technology that understands the world, humans, and objects, and provides creative generation and manipulation tools for efficient real-time experiences. This technology aims to impact and contribute to multiple products at Snap.
Requirements
- Strong technical knowledge of statistics, machine learning, vision and state-of-the-art deep learning literature
- Strong computer science fundamentals, problem solving skills, programming (Python, C, C++)
- Strong theoretical foundations of generative AI and practical experience training, tuning, and modifying generative models
- Experience with multimodal machine learning, involving images, videos, audio, text, speech
- Knowledge of 3D computer vision, non-rigid and articulated 3D registration and synthesis
- Experience with large-scale data collection and annotation best practices
Responsibilities
- Lead and execute a multi-year research agenda
- Work on large-scale multimodal generative projects
- Share your expertise with other teammates and interns
- Publish your work to top conferences
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver your technology to millions of Snapchatters
Other
- PhD in a related technical field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, machine learning or equivalent years of experience
- Demonstrated ability in defining, leading and executing challenging research projects
- Proven ability to lead interns, PhD students, and junior researchers
- Track record of publications in top-tier international research venues (e.g. ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH)
- Proven ability to impact product with cutting edge research technology
- work in an office 4+ days per week
- Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.
