Research Scientist Graduate (Ads Creative) - 2027 Start (PhD)

About the role

We are the Creative AI team under Monetization Technology. Our team focuses on developing cutting-edge Generative AI technologies across all modalities—text, image, video, landing pages, and more—and creates industry-leading technical solutions to improve creative efficiency for advertisers, agencies, and creators. We are committed to automated creative workflows by leveraging Generative AI to increase overall revenue for advertisers, agencies, and creators. Our goal is to drive and lead generative AI in the ads tech and creative industry, powering products and delivering value for our clients, creators, and the entire ecosystem.

As a graduate, you will have opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the post-training of advertising video generation based on the latest generative models and technologies.
• Analyze the reasons behind high-quality advertisement videos and the defective parts in AIGC videos via multimodal video understanding.
• Train the reward model based on the ad delivery data of video ads to guide the optimization of the video generation model.

Requirements

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline.
• Strong publications record in top conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing multimodality foundation models.
• Work or internship experience in an AI research organization is a plus.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $128,000 - $256,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package, which may also include discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Day-one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year.
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).