Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Genies
Animation Integration
$180-270k
Offers equity
4-5 days a week in office
AI avatar technology company
Be an early applicant
AI avatar technology company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-270k
Offers equity
4-5 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
- 7+ years of experience in machine learning, animation systems, or related technical roles in games, VFX, or interactive media
- Experience developing and shipping ML systems in production environments
- Strong programming skills in Python, along with C++ and/or C#
- Experience working with animation systems, including skeletal animation, rigging, or simulation pipelines
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Experience working with datasets and building data processing pipelines
- Experience integrating systems into realtime engines such as Unity, Unreal, or web-based runtimes
- Strong understanding of performance constraints, including latency, memory, and scalability
- Experience building tools or workflows for Technical Artists or content teams
- You are comfortable working across machine learning, animation systems, and realtime applications
- You can take models from prototype to production and understand the tradeoffs involved
- You care about animation quality and user experience, not just model outputs
- You work well with cross-functional teams across ML, engineering, and content
- You are proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable owning systems end-to-end
- You communicate clearly and can translate technical concepts across disciplines
What the job involves
- Genies is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Avatar Technology team, focused on building the next generation of AI-driven animation systems
- This role is focused on integrating machine learning systems into production animation pipelines and realtime environments, while also owning the applied ML work required to make these systems effective in practice
- You will work across data, modeling, and runtime systems to ensure ML-driven animation performs reliably and at high quality in production
- Integrate machine learning models into realtime animation systems across mobile and web environments
- Develop systems that translate inputs such as audio, text, and intent into responsive avatar motion in production
- Work with generative models (e.g., diffusion, transformer-based systems) and adapt them for specific use cases such as facial animation, gesture generation, and character behavior
- Collect, process, and manage animation datasets (mocap, facial capture, simulation data) for training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
- Build data pipelines for extraction, preprocessing, and validation of motion data
- Fine-tune and adapt existing models to improve quality, stability, and performance in production environments
- Collaborate with Behavior and LLM teams to integrate predictive motion systems into state machines and character logic
- Design and build tools and workflows that enable Technical Artists to work effectively with ML-driven animation systems
- Develop pipelines that connect DCC tools (Maya, Blender) with ML systems and runtime engines
- Debug, profile, and optimize runtime performance across CPU, GPU, and memory constraints
- Develop automation and validation systems to support asset quality and iteration speed
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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