Senior Research Scientist - Generative Video

Job Description

Senior Research Scientist - Generative Video

black.ai - San Francisco, CA

• On-site, Remote
  
  

Estimated Pay: $116K - $147.90K/yr

Benefits: Medical, Retirement

Posted 3 hours ago

Job Description

About the Role: At Canva, we’re building a future powered by AI. As a Senior Research Scientist (Generative Video), you’ll help push the boundaries of video generation and editing.

This role blends hands‑on applied research with strong technical ownership. You’ll design, train, and evaluate generative video models, collaborate closely with engineering and product partners.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On:

• Own and deliver research projects that advance Canva’s generative video capabilities.
• Design and run rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses.
• Develop and improve model architectures and training pipelines for video generation.
• Translate research into production impact by partnering with ML engineers.
• Advance evaluation and benchmarking for generative video.
• Explore data strategies for video that improve model reliability and controllability.
• Contribute to the research roadmap by tracking emerging trends.
• Share knowledge through internal write‑ups, talks, cross‑team reviews.
  
  

We’re Looking For Someone Who Brings:

• Deep expertise in generative video modeling.
• Experience developing and deploying generative AI systems (video synthesis/editing strongly preferred).
• Strong working knowledge of multimodal representation learning.
• A solid publication record or demonstrable research impact in industry
• Experience taking a research problem end‑to‑end.
• Proficiency turning complex papers/ideas into robust implementations.
• A collaborative mindset.
  
  

Bonus points (nice to have)

• Experience with video editing models
• Familiarity with video safety and responsible gen‑AI practices.
• Experience building human automated evaluation loops for generative video quality.
• Understanding of inference optimization.
  
  

What You’ll Learn And How You’ll Grow

• Deep involvement in Canva’s long‑term AI strategy for generative media and multimodal systems.
• Opportunities to mentor and strengthen our research culture.
• Exposure to product impact at global scale.
• Dedicated time for self‑driven research exploration.
  
  

The target base salary range for this position is $230,000 - $280,000.