Research Scientist Graduate (Multimodal Interaction and World Model) - 2026 Start (PhD

Research Scientist Graduate (Multimodal Interaction and World Model) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A219576A

Drive research and engineering to advance models that enhance understanding of multimodal data and enlarge reasoning capabilities.

Explore research ideas that optimize both the model's performance and efficiency.

Establish scaling laws, design and conduct systematic ablations that result in transferrable conclusions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Publications in accredited venues, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or other leading conferences in AI and ML
• Strong research background in at least one of the following: reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, video understanding, or vision-language modeling

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in Transformers (Dense and MoE) and familiar with how to scale Transformers on GPUs or TPUs.
• Rich hands-on experience in PyTorch/JAX and distributed training framework.
• Familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for preparing multimodal training data.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship or any immigration-related benefits.

Compensation Description (Annually):
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $254400 - $480000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.