Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Synthesia
Large Language Models
€120-138k
+Stock Options
More information about location
AI video creation platform
Open for applications
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
€120-138k
+Stock Options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- You have prior experience training and deploying LLMs, ideally with open-source models
- You have 5+ years of experience working in software development
- You have extensive experience building performant, consumer-facing applications
- You have experience that ranges from early-stage start-ups to well-established organizations
- A good level of spoken and written English is required
What the job involves
- We believe the future of media is synthetic, and we are on a mission to turn cameras into code and make everyone a creator. The Assisted Creation team is central to that mission
- It further simplifies video creation by building an AI-based co-pilot for Synthesia
- Our goal is to provide users, regardless of their prior video editing experience, with intuitive tools that ensure their success on our platform
- To get started, users only need to supply an initial idea, which we turn into a video draft in seconds
- Our solution uses a modern machine-learning stack based on LLMs, LVMs, embeddings, and more
- We’re at the cutting edge of the generative AI application layer, tackling unsolved problems requiring machine learning, data, infrastructure, and product integration to enable a first-of-its-kind product
- You will work end-to-end, contributing to Assisted Creation’s machine-learning efforts
- You will have sole ownership of projects that span months, requiring you to be able to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively
- You will work directly with the product manager responsible for your project, meaning that you will be expected to ideate and focus on the commercial problem you're solving. You will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the product
- You will evaluate your work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary
- You will consider the team's long-term direction and ensure we are developing the engineering capabilities to stay ahead of the challenges we will likely encounter in 6-12 months
Application process
- 1) 30min call with our technical recruiter
- 2) 30min call with engineers about your past
- 3) Take-home assignment (no alternative is offered)
- 4) 60min technical discussion
- 5) 30min call with leadership
- The process does not need to take long - we can be done in seven working days
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
139% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Ownership is key to how everyone works at Synthesia. Over the past 18 months since joining, I have been given ownership of a vast array of exciting..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$90m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.5m
Company benefits
- đź“ŤYou will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- đź’¸ Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company values
- Outcomes over Inputs & Plans: We value outcomes and iterations, not inputs
- Be an Owner: Acting like an owner is encouraged: Ask questions, challenge decisions and show leadership
- Make the Journey Fun: We strive for an informal, low hierarchy culture where we can all be our true selves.
- Default to Simple:Â Simple is better - until it's not. But in most cases we can stick to very simple solutions
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO & CFO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
People progressing
Joined Synthesia in June 2022 as a Customer Support Associate, promoted to a different department as a Customer Onboarding Manager in January 2024.
Joined Synthesia in April 2022 as an SDR. Promoted in January 2023 to a Senior SDR, and promoted again in January 2024 to a Strategic SDR lead for EMEA.
Joined Synthesia in April 2023, promoted to a different department as a Customer Success Manager in May 2024.
Joined Synthesia in October 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a different department as an Account Executive in October 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a Senior Customer Success Manager in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2020 as a Full Stack Engineer, promoted to an Engineering Lead in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in January 2018 as a Research Engineer, promoted to a Senior Research Engineer in March 2021.
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