Staff AI Researcher: Generative Video & Neuro-Inspired Systems

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) is building neurally informed AI systems that combine biological compute concepts with modern neural networks to advance video generation and AI infrastructure.

As Staff AI Researcher, you will set the technical direction for TBC’s core research areas, solve foundational problems, and translate breakthroughs into deployable software. You will mentor the team and collaborate with founders, researchers, and product leaders to scale impactful ideas.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Experience in video generation models, embodied AI, or learned simulation.
• Experience training policies inside learned simulators or over imagined trajectories.
• Experience with diffusion models or autoregressive video models.
• Experience connecting learned models to real robotic systems.
• Publications in leading ML/vision/robotics venues.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for TBC’s generative video modeling platform, including core modeling, training, evaluation, and deployment decisions.
• Design video generation models with expressive latent representations, stable rollouts, and control-oriented prediction.
• Improve long-horizon rollout fidelity under autoregressive use.
• Integrate video priors, physical structure, or object-centric representations into control systems.
• Mentor and multiply team output through collaboration and leadership.
• Translate research into deployable software and product capabilities.

Skills

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Robotics

Generative Modeling

Diffusion Models

Education

PhD or MS in Computer Science/Robotics/ML

Job description

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) is building neurally informed AI systems that combine biological compute concepts with modern neural networks to advance video generation and AI infrastructure.

As Staff AI Researcher, you will set the technical direction for TBC’s core research areas, solve foundational problems, and translate breakthroughs into deployable software. You will mentor the team and collaborate with founders, researchers, and product leaders to scale impactful ideas.