Research Scientist, Video Foundation Models

The role

You will research, develop, and scale native video and multimodal foundation models. This includes working on architecture, data, training, evaluation, and efficient inference.

What you will do

• Research, develop, and scale native video and multimodal foundation models.
• Explore new model architectures, training objectives, and conditioning mechanisms.
• Build and improve large-scale data curation, distributed training, evaluation, and post-training pipelines.
• Design systematic experiments to understand model scaling, quality, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to shape the technical roadmap.
• Contribute to research publications and open-source releases when appropriate.

Required qualifications

• Strong research and engineering experience in generative modeling, including diffusion models, flow matching, DiTs, video generation, multimodal models, world models, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience training and evaluating large-scale image, video, or unified multimodal models using modern deep learning frameworks and distributed training systems.
• A strong track record of developing impactful models or systems through research publications, open-source contributions, production impact, or other significant technical work.
• Ability to independently own ambiguous research problems.
• Ability to move effectively from ideas to experiments.
• Ability to work well in a highly collaborative environment.
• Specialized depth in one or more areas across the foundation model lifecycle.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous company equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
• 42 days of paid time off, including 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, and 2 floating holidays
• Generous parental leave & fertility support
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Lifestyle spending account – $500/month
• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
• One Medical membership

About the company

Cantina Labs is a social AI company developing a suite of advanced real-time models. Their flagship social AI platform is Cantina.