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Goliath Partners

Machine Learning Researcher

Goliath Partners, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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This range is provided by Goliath Partners. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range $500,000.00/yr - $1,000,000.00/yr

Principal Recruitment Consultant at Goliath Partners A well-funded, independent AI research lab is building the next generation of multimodal foundation models—systems that understand and express ideas across text, audio, video, and 3D interactive environments in real time.

The team’s north star is humanistic general intelligence: AI that doesn’t just reason, but perceives, responds, and communicates with emotional depth, expressive nuance, and creative intent. This is a rare opportunity to work on a frontier problem space with deep technical freedom and long‑term research horizons.

What You’ll Do

Driving research on generative foundation models for video, from ideation through prototype and production

Designing and evaluating large‑scale generative algorithms and training schemes for high‑fidelity video synthesis

Developing efficient image/video representations, latent spaces, and training objectives

Identifying critical research directions and contributing to the lab’s long‑term video‑generation roadmap

Designing and curating large, high‑quality multimodal datasets, collaborating across research, product, and data teams

What You Bring

PhD in CS, EE, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent applied research experience

3+ years working in one or more of:

Video diffusion or autoregressive video modeling

Image/video representation learning at scale

Deep expertise in modern generative modeling: Diffusion, Flow Matching, Autoregressive Transformers, Mamba‑style architectures, VAE, GANs

Strong programming foundations (Python) and practical ML engineering skills

Ability to operate independently, explore novel ideas aggressively, and communicate research clearly

Preferred Experience

Publications at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or similar

Hands‑on experience with large‑scale distributed training (FSDP, ZeRO, data/model parallelism)

Deep understanding of diffusion variants (DDIM, flow matching, rectified flows, etc.)

Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in building real systems, not just prototypes

Thrives in a fast, iterative, research‑driven startup environment

Total Comp: 500,000-1,000,000

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

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