Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Genies
3D Generative AI
$240-340k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
AI avatar technology company
Be an early applicant
AI avatar technology company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-340k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or a related field with a strong emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Minimum of 3 years of professional industry / research experience in machine learning, computer vision, or computer graphics
- Proficiency in Python programming and extensive experience with AI/DL Frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Experience in multimodal training for 3D computer vision and graphics, such as:
- Generative models (e.g., diffusion, GANs, VAEs, flow-based)
- Advanced architectures like Transformers, Vision Transformers (ViT), Diffusion Transformers (DiT), and Mixture of Experts (MoE)
- Excellent teamwork skills, effective in working with cross-functional teams and engaging stakeholders
- Ability to communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences
- Background in computer graphics, computational geometry, and 3D principles is a plus
Desirable
- Industry experience with AI-driven content creation as it relates to games or animation, including:
- 3D reconstruction
- Object and body tracking
- 3D geometry analysis (segmentation & tagging)
- Generative models for avatars and textures
- Avatar behavioral systems
- Experience with volumetric differentiable rendering techniques using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or Gaussian Splatting, including scene representation learning, novel view synthesis, and integration with neural rendering pipelines
- Experience training and scaling large machine learning models, including optimizing training pipelines,managing compute resources and deploying models to production
- Hands-on experience with ML infrastructure, such as distributed training, data pipelines, model versioning, and experiment tracking
- Publication track record at top conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV, ICML)
- Contributions to popular open-source machine learning projects
What the job involves
- Genies seeks a talented Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to our R&D initiatives. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models that produce high-quality 3D assets for our avatar creation ecosystem
- Collaborating closely with our engineering and creative teams, you will incorporate AI and machine learning capabilities into our creator tools and product offerings
- This opportunity not only allows you to join a dynamic startup at the forefront of a new industry and emerging technologies, but also to become one of the pioneering engineers shaping the future of consumer self-expression and creativity
- We believe that the future of consumer social experiences will be consumer, creator and developer driven, and we are looking for a thought partner who can assist us in accomplishing our vision of transforming digital identity, representation, and social experiences
- Why Genies? You are curious about the future of avatar technology and empowering users to represent their digital selves. You have an underlying passion for encountering complex problems and creating smart, strategic solutions
- How avatars will play in the consumer marketplace resonates with you and you see a future where our digital identities help to create a world where people can create, express and be their true authentic selves
- Collaborate with R&D and Application teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into our avatar creation ecosystem, leveraging advanced 3D computer vision (CV) and computer graphics (CG) techniques
- Design, train, fine-tune, accelerate, optimize, and deploy ML models and technical frameworks
- Utilize a strong understanding of computer graphics pipelines, computational geometry, and 3D principles to synthesize meshes, images, and/or motion
- Apply practical expertise in implementing white paper concepts to develop user-facing creative technologies
- Manage ML framework resources and infrastructure, including dataset management, client/cloud computing options, experiment tracking and model deployment techniques
- Partner with Product and Creative teams to refine AI/ML-powered creation tools and interfaces
- Communicate technical decisions and project updates to stakeholders such as engineers, designers, and product managers
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies in AI and advise on their strategic integration into innovative solutions
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product
Our take
Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.
While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customisation options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.
The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalise on this opportunity moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $255.3m
Company benefits
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Akash Nigam
(Founder & CEO)CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.
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