Research Science Manager, Foundation Models
At a glance
Manager-level role at Runway. Remote, United States · full-time · $360,000–$450,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Lead and grow the applied machine learning research team, helping researchers produce advanced work for AI content creation
- Support researchers’ development through mentoring and career guidance
- Turn product and business goals into technical research plans that deliver clear user value
- Coordinate with engineering to move research into production, and partner with Product to shape research projects
What you bring
- At least five years as an industry computer vision research scientist
- At least one year managing teams
- A strong research background in computer vision, plus experience mentoring researchers and supporting their career growth
- You can turn product and business objectives into technical strategies and guide projects through execution
Who this fits
This role suits a research scientist ready to manage and develop other researchers while working across research, engineering, and Product. It is remote in the United States and is a people-management position.
From the employer
We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.
We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.
World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.
Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.
*Titles posted to our careers page are updated regularly to best advertise the role and expected seniority, but internally we have a flat titling system with two types of titles: one for individual contributors and one for people managers.
About the role
We’re looking for a Research Manager to help us manage and grow Runway’s Applied ML Research team to create cutting-edge machine learning tools for AI-based content creation. This person should have a strong research background in computer vision, and be deeply interested in managing and enabling other researchers to develop state-of-the-art research.
This is a cross-functional role that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production, as well as with the Product team to initiate and develop research projects that deliver clear user value.
What you’ll need
5+ years of industry experience as a research scientist in computer vision and 1+ year managing teams
High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring and supporting the career growth of other researchers
Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Working at Runway
Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
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