Research Scientist - Internship - Innovation

Santa Monica, CA 90401
Science – Research Science /
Hybrid
The most talked about AI company in Hollywood

Flawless is shattering the boundaries of traditional filmmaking with its groundbreaking suite of Gen AI film editing tools. Our mission is to empower filmmakers with cutting-edge technology that allows creativity without compromise, expands storytelling possibilities, and delivers unparalleled visual and emotional experiences.

What we are looking for:

As a research scientist intern in the innovation team at Flawless, you will work with a close-knit, passionate group of world-class researchers and scientists to tackle some of the most challenging problems in generative neural rendering, audio driven facial animation, including video-based 3D avatar generation in-the-wild.  Our work in visual dubbing is just the tip of the iceberg, we’re developing countless exciting products based on our cornerstone research. This is an unbelievable opportunity to be on the cutting edge of the generative revolution.

Flawless is looking for smart, self-motivated, and committed Research Interns to join our research team in both the UK, Soho, London office as well as Los Angeles, US. Our interns are given challenging research problems and are provided with a clear project plan during the course of the internship. At Flawless, we want interns to succeed, and we have high expectations for performance, either by advancing the state of the art or bringing unique scientific value to our business.

Qualifications

    • Be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in visual computing, 3D Vision, or related disciplines.
    • Have a strong background in math, numerical optimization, and computer graphics.
    • Ability to conduct independent research (literature review and prototyping) with minimum supervision
    • Have research experience demonstrated through implementing methods from top-tier conferences in computer vision/graphics, and deep learning.
    • Be familiar with neural volume rendering, audio driven facial animation and/or 3D tracking techniques
    • Have extensive experience with DL frameworks such as PyTorch, or tensorflow
    • Excellent coding skills in Python

Preferred Qualifications

    • Research experience with demonstrated publication record at top-tier conferences in computer vision/graphics, and deep learning such as ICCV, CVPR, and SIGGRAPH.
    • Extensive experience with neural volume rendering and 3D tracking techniques, especially in 3D face tracking and talking head synthesis from 2D video
    • Experience in Audio Driven Facial Animation
    • Multi-View, Multi-modal image synthesis and editing
    • Hands-on experience with NeRF and SDF-based reconstruction techniques
    • Familiarity with advanced computer graphics techniques such as inverse/differentiable rendering, physics-based rendering, intrinsic image decomposition, and shadow modeling
    • Experience with differentiable renderers, such as PyTorch3D, Mitsuba2, or TensorFlow Graphic
$6,200 - $7,000 a month
Flawless is proud to emphasize an equal opportunity, safe environment for people to do their best work. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.