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AI Research Scientist

Toronto, ON, CAN, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Conduct fundamental and applied research on Motion Foundation Models to represent, generate, edit, understand, and reason about human and object motion.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (AI/Motion)

Builds

New model architectures, representations, training methods, datasets, and evaluations for motion intelligence

Domain

Generative AI, Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D Graphics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Generative/foundation model methods (Transformers, diffusion, flow models), PyTorch/JAX, experimental design, research code ownership, hypothesis formulation

Preferred skills

Human motion/character animation, multimodal models, learned motion representations, large-scale video foundation models, reinforcement learning, 3D geometry/geometric deep learning

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, Transformers, diffusion models, flow matching, VQ/VAE

Responsibilities

Develop foundation-model approaches for motion generation and reasoning; drive research end-to-end from hypothesis to conclusion; build and modify research code and training pipelines; design rigorous evaluations and benchmarks; collaborate globally and publish at top-tier conferences

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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