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Create stunning visual stories/films with AI-powered tools. Build, edit, and customize videos using our intuitive canvas interface and advanced AI models.

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Remote · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
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$150K – $250K

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Research Scientist (Generative Media)

at Flick AI


About Us

Flick is defining the future interface for professional AI-native filmmaking.

  • Founded by an engineer who helped build Instagram Stories and an award-winning filmmaker, Flick brings technology and artistry together.

  • We are well funded by leading investors, including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, and other top-tier VCs.

  • Checkout our launch video

  • Award-winning AI films created using Flick

The Role

As a founding research scientist at Flick, you’ll help shape the future of generative media and AI-native filmmaking.

We’re looking for someone who can train and adapt generative models, while also having strong creative taste and intuition around cinematic visuals, storytelling, motion, and aesthetics.

This role sits at the intersection of research, engineering, and art.

You’ll work directly with founders, and filmmakers to develop the next generation of creative AI systems — starting from image models and eventually expanding into video generation.

What you’ll do

  • Train and adapt generative image models for cinematic and creative workflows
  • Explore controllable image/video generation systems and improve model quality and aesthetics
  • Work closely with filmmakers and product teams to bring research into real creative tools

Requirements

  • Strong background in deep learning and generative models
  • Experience training or fine-tuning diffusion, transformer, or related generative systems
  • Strong visual taste and intuition for cinematic imagery and storytelling
  • Strong engineering skills, product intuition, and startup mindset
  • Can actually make things work!

Nice-to-have

  • Love films or you are creator yourself