Senior Video Foundation Model Researcher

L&Q OASIS LIMITED; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencent is seeking a senior researcher to advance video generation foundations, focusing on diffusion models, autoregressive techniques, and large-scale training with PyTorch. You will lead end-to-end projects, publish results, and drive innovation across multi-frame-rate video modeling.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in AI-related fields with top-tier publications and a strong track record in academic or industry R&D. This role emphasizes cutting-edge research and scalable system design.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in AI-related fields with first-author papers at top-tier conferences.
• Proficient in diffusion models and autoregressive generation principles and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and iterate on next-generation video generation foundation architecture.
• Explore core technologies for long video generation, including long-context attention and memory mechanisms.
• Research high-compression-ratio video tokenizers and unified modeling for multi-resolution videos.
• Lead video pre-training at large token scale with data mixture and curriculum learning.
• Explore Scaling Laws, define scientific scale-up paths, and improve model capabilities.
• Track industry state-of-the-art, run comparative experiments, influence roadmap decisions, and publish papers.

Skills

Diffusion models

Autoregressive generation

PyTorch

Large-scale distributed training

Video generation

Education

Ph.D. in AI-related fields

Tools

PyTorch

Distributed training frameworks

Job description

Tencent is seeking a senior researcher to advance video generation foundations, focusing on diffusion models, autoregressive techniques, and large-scale training with PyTorch. You will lead end-to-end projects, publish results, and drive innovation across multi-frame-rate video modeling.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in AI-related fields with top-tier publications and a strong track record in academic or industry R&D. This role emphasizes cutting-edge research and scalable system design.