Image Generative AI Researcher

Topaz Labs builds generative AI software for image and video enhancement. Over 1M photographers and designers trust us with their work, including on teams at Google, Nvidia, NASA, and more. Over the past few years we've processed over 1 billion images, grown extremely quickly, and we're just getting started.

We're looking for a Generative AI researcher to help us produce best-in-the-world performance and efficiency in image/video enhancement and editing. Your primary responsibility will be to explore and develop GAN and diffusion-based generative AI technologies in the image and video domain. Experience with model distillation, quantization, and pruning to improve inference and memory efficiency while retaining performance is highly desirable.

• Rocketship growth and opportunity for impact ($3M → $45M revenue in five years)
• Over 1 million customers (including companies like Apple, NASA, Netflix) have used us for over 1 billion photos. Our tech has been covered by Fast Company, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, BBC, Fox News, CNet, and more
• World-class team that executes quickly, obsesses about the customer experience, and promotes from within
• Fast-growing with huge opportunity for impact
• Strong product-market fit, profitable with infinite runway

• PhD in related field or equivalent industry experience
• Significant research on GAN or diffusion models for image/video enhancement, image processing, or image editing
• Experience with model distillation, quantization, and pruning
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with PyTorch, expert level at python
• Working knowledge of C/C++
• Well‑read on recent relevant research papers
• Preferred: experience with traditional image/video processing and photography interest

Aside from technical understanding and research skills, we're looking for someone with a strong work ethic, intellectual humility, and a shipping mentality. We’re a small company with a high‑visibility and high‑performance culture, so you will work with a high degree of impact and autonomy. You'll also collaborate closely with other world‑class researchers to exchange ideas and solve problems together.

Our research focus has already driven strong success for our company, and your contributions will directly help determine our future growth. We offer strong base salary plus significant ownership that scales with the company's growth. We also offer 100% covered medical/dental/vision for employees, 15 days annual PTO, 5 personal days plus holidays, and 401k matching. This is a full‑time on‑site role in Dallas, TX, and we will ask you to relocate if you're not in the area.