Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer

About the role

Runway-ml is building AI that simulates the world by merging art and science. The team seeks research engineers to advance multimodal foundational models, interactive world modeling, and real‑time generation.

Key responsibilities

• Run experiments to teach world models new behaviors such as action following, scene manipulation, and camera control.
• Develop and test new data strategies, architectural variants, and training techniques.
• Design evaluations that measure model capabilities and use results to drive improvement.
• Take features from research prototypes to production, collaborating with product and creative teams.
• Contribute across the full stack – data pipelines, modeling, and production inference.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in machine learning research or engineering.
• Comfort working across the entire research stack: data, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Ability to context‑switch quickly and drive projects forward in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment.

Required skills

• Familiarity with large‑scale multimodal generative model architecture, training, and inference.
• Experience building robust data pipelines for pretraining and post‑training.
• Proficiency with at least one ML framework (e.g., PyTorch, JAX) and distributed training at scale.