Senior Motion AI Scientist - Foundation Models

Autodesk; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Research seeks a Senior AI Research Scientist to advance Motion Foundation Models for motion understanding, generation and interaction. You will collaborate with scientists, developers, and designers across AI, vision, graphics, robotics, simulation, and manufacturing to push model architectures, datasets and evaluations.

Role reports to a Manager of Research Science in the AI Lab and targets top conferences.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS/ML/CV/Graphics/Robotics/Mathematics or a related technical field
• Publications in research demonstrating experience in applied or fundamental research
• Knowledge of modern generative or foundation-model methods (Transformers, diffusion/flow, latent-variable models)
• Hands-on ability with PyTorch/JAX and building/modifying research pipelines; AI-assisted development tools
• Excellent experimental judgment and ability to derive conclusions from controlled experiments
• Proven research ownership and persistence with challenging problems solved by iteration

Responsibilities

• Develop new foundation-model approaches for motion generation, editing, understanding, reasoning and representation
• Drive end-to-end research: identify questions, formulate hypotheses, implement ideas, run experiments, analyze failures, iterate
• Investigate motion representations, tokenization, multimodal conditioning, scalable training and model refinement
• Design rigorous evaluations, benchmarks, ablations and diagnostics to reveal progress and failure modes
• Build/modify research code, training/data pipelines, using AI coding agents while ensuring correctness and reproducibility
• Work toward long-term goals with concrete milestones and high empirical iteration pace
• Collaborate across a global team and publish at top-tier venues; transfer ideas into Autodesk tech

Skills

PyTorch

JAX

Transformers

Experimentation

Coding agents

Education

Master/PhD in CS/ML/CV/Graphics/Robotics/Math

Tools

Python

Git

Job description

Autodesk Research seeks a Senior AI Research Scientist to advance Motion Foundation Models for motion understanding, generation and interaction. You will collaborate with scientists, developers, and designers across AI, vision, graphics, robotics, simulation, and manufacturing to push model architectures, datasets and evaluations.

Role reports to a Manager of Research Science in the AI Lab and targets top conferences.