Research Engineer, Digital Humans
Sausalito, CA | Seattle, WA
- Plan and execute cutting-edge research to advance the state of the art in digital humans and avatars.
- Develop new advanced technologies related to the generation of realistic digital humans, like differentiable physics-based simulation and rendering techniques, human biophysical models, or generative AI.
- Formulation of new machine learning, analysis, and simulation approaches for digital humans.
- Collaborate with other researchers, engineers and 3D artists to prototype hardware and software solutions, experiments and concepts that advance the entire project.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- PhD in the field of Computer Graphics, Computer Science, Mathematics or Machine Learning with a proven academic or equivalent industrial track-record.
- 4+ years of experience in realistic character generation: 3D human shape and pose capture, dynamic model reconstruction, facial performance capture, photorealistic differential rendering and relighting, motion synthesis and retargeting, physics-based simulation, or generative AI models.
- Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ECCV and ICCV, NIPS, ICLR, ICML) or journals (e.g., TOG, PAMI, IJCV, JMLR).
- Experience with C++, Python
- Experience with character generation for high-end VFX and/or video game applications.
- Experience with designing real-time systems in C++, Cuda.
- Experience with image processing, multiview systems, camera calibration, pose estimation, non-rigid ICP, non-linear optimization, neural networks training and deployment, PyTorch, distributed and cloud computing.
- Experience with 3D packages such as Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity.
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
Tags: Blender Computer Science Computer Vision CUDA Engineering Generative AI ICLR ICML Industrial JMLR Machine Learning Mathematics PhD Physics Python PyTorch R Research Robotics VR
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Equity / stock options Flex vacation Health care Salary bonus
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