ML Engineer: Character Models for Kids’ Play

Spin Master; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Flexible work hours

Comprehensive benefits

Other fun perks

Job summary

Spin Master Hapiko is seeking a hands-on ML engineer to build and tune diffusion models for a kid-friendly sticker printer. You will work on data pipelines, model evaluation, and cross-team collaboration to ensure on-brand, high-quality outputs for characters.

The role involves working with brand teams, production deployment, and a focus on safety for children from day one, with a collaborative, fast-paced startup-like environment within Spin Master’s global toy company framework.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience fine-tuning diffusion or other generative image models.
• Experience building training data pipelines with real provenance requirements.
• Experience building evals for generative outputs and using them to drive decisions.
• Strong software engineering in Python; training code and pipelines should be runnable and trustworthy.
• Curiosity and willingness to get creative to pioneer the future of play.

Responsibilities

• Train and fine-tune diffusion models, pipelines, and adapters for characters.
• Extend evaluation harness to measure character fidelity and output quality.
• Ensure a kid's spoken request for a character yields the correct outputs.
• Collaborate with brand teams for character approvals and shipping.
• Partner with ML Serving and Trust Safety engineers to productionize new products.

Skills

Hands-on diffusion fine-tuning

Training data pipelines

Generative evals

Python software engineering

Curiosity & creativity

Tools

Python

Diffusion models

Job description

Spin Master Hapiko is seeking a hands-on ML engineer to build and tune diffusion models for a kid-friendly sticker printer. You will work on data pipelines, model evaluation, and cross-team collaboration to ensure on-brand, high-quality outputs for characters.

The role involves working with brand teams, production deployment, and a focus on safety for children from day one, with a collaborative, fast-paced startup-like environment within Spin Master’s global toy company framework.