Research Member of Technical Staff- Video Generation Modeling

The role

You will design and train large-scale causal video generation models on web-scale video data. You will work on core architectures, training objectives, and scaling strategies to enable robot control through video prediction.

What you will do

• Design and train large-scale causal video generation models on web-scale video data
• Develop and validate training objectives, model architectures, and data mixtures for video prediction at scale
• Research scaling laws and data efficiency for web-scale video pretraining
• Investigate what properties of web video transfer most effectively to robotic control and action prediction
• Build systematic evaluations to measure video generation quality, long-horizon prediction fidelity, and downstream robot task performance
• Run rigorous ablations and benchmarking to understand what drives model quality at scale
• Collaborate closely with data & evaluation, post-training, and training systems teams
• Publish and present work at top-tier ML and robotics venues

Required qualifications

• Strong background in large-scale generative modeling (video generation or language model pretraining)
• Hands-on experience training large generative models from scratch at scale
• Deep understanding of autoregressive modeling, causal architectures, and scaling behavior
• Fluency with PyTorch
• Ability to design experiments, interpret results, and iterate quickly
• Strong research taste
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment

Nice to have

• PhD in ML, CS, Robotics, or a related field or equivalent research/industry experience
• Strong publication record at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, etc.
• Prior work specifically on video generation models
• Experience with large-scale autoregressive language model pretraining and scaling
• Familiarity with web-scale video datasets and video data curation pipelines
• Prior work connecting video generation to control, action prediction, or robotic learning
• Familiarity with distributed training and multi-node infrastructure
• JAX

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to state-of-the-art foundation world models.