Research Engineer at Tavus
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- Full-time
- United States
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About the role
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Job Title
Research Engineer — Video Diffusion
Salary
Not Disclosed
Company Description
Tavus is a $64M Series B AI research lab backed by Sequoia, CRV, and Y Combinator, building real-time AI humans. Headquartered in San Francisco with a global research presence, Tavus develops the Phoenix-4 model to power conversational video interfaces that see, hear, and respond with human-like presence.
Job Description
As a Research Engineer at Tavus, you will architect and train the video diffusion models powering our real-time facial rendering pipeline. Working under the leadership of Ioannis Patras, you'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and production, shipping models that achieve emotionally accurate expressions with sub-second latency for global enterprises.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
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She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network.
The next step is to speak to Jack.
Job Title
Research Engineer — Video Diffusion
Salary
Not Disclosed
Company Description
Tavus is a $64M Series B AI research lab backed by Sequoia, CRV, and Y Combinator, building real-time AI humans. Headquartered in San Francisco with a global research presence, Tavus develops the Phoenix-4 model to power conversational video interfaces that see, hear, and respond with human-like presence.
Job Description
As a Research Engineer at Tavus, you will architect and train the video diffusion models powering our real-time facial rendering pipeline. Working under the leadership of Ioannis Patras, you'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and production, shipping models that achieve emotionally accurate expressions with sub-second latency for global enterprises.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a well-funded Series B lab backed by premier investors like Sequoia and CRV to define the future of conversational AI.
- See your research reach production immediately through Tavus’s platform, powering real-time face-to-face AI interactions for major companies.
- Work alongside world-class experts like Head of Research Ioannis Patras in a high-impact, globally distributed research environment.
- Design and implement novel architectures for video diffusion and flow-matching models specifically for high-fidelity facial generation.
- Develop and optimize large-scale training loops to advance the capabilities of the Phoenix-4 model for emotionally accurate rendering.
- Ship high-performance models to production, ensuring sub-second inference latency for real-time conversational video interfaces.
- Demonstrates hands-on experience building, training, and scaling diffusion or flow-matching models specifically for video or facial synthesis.
- Possesses strong research engineering skills with the ability to implement complex neural architectures and manage large-scale training data.
- Brings broader knowledge of neural rendering techniques such as Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, or advanced face synthesis methods.
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
- Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
- Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
- If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.