Senior Research Engineer - Interactive Avatars

Synthesia(1 month ago)

HybridFull TimeSenior$170,597 - $228,645 (estimated)R&D

About this role

A Research Engineer at Synthesia joins the R&D Interactive Avatars team to advance avatar-centric interactive video diffusion models and turn research breakthroughs into product capabilities. The role focuses on applied generative AI research—developing models for long-form streaming video, audio-conditioned interactions, and improved visual realism—within a fast-moving team of researchers and engineers. You will help ship models that drive product impact for thousands of business customers.

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Required Skills

Diffusion Models
Streaming Video
Audio Understanding
Reaction Generation
Lip Sync
Motion Realism
Visual Quality
Evaluation Frameworks
Data Collaboration
Research

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About Synthesia

synthesia.io

Synthesia is an AI video platform for businesses that creates high-quality videos from text using realistic AI avatars and voiceovers in 140+ languages. Its web-based studio, customizable templates and avatars (including custom-brand avatars), translation/localization and API enable fast, programmatic video production at scale. Customers use Synthesia for training, marketing, onboarding and internal communications to cut production time and costs—no cameras, studios or actors required. The product is positioned for enterprises with collaboration, security and integrations that support scalable, multilingual video workflows.