Senior+ AI Researcher (Multimodal Perception Models)

Tavus is a research lab pioneering human computing. We're building AI Humans: a new interface that closes the gap between people and machines, free from the friction of today's systems.

Requirements

• PhD plus 2–3+ years working hands-on with LLMs, VLMs, or multimodal systems.
• Previous experience leading research efforts or mentoring teams.
• Expertise in sequence modeling across video, audio, and text — with strong understanding of autoregressive, predictive, and diffusion frameworks.
• Experience with large-scale model training and optimization for performance and real-time generation.
• Proven ability to translate research ideas into production-grade systems.
• Publications in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ECCV, ACMMM).
• Strong PyTorch skills and comfort moving fluidly between research and engineering.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive healthcare
• Gear stipends
• Fun