Senior Expert ML Research Engineer

Activision • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Senior Expert ML Research Engineer to join the development of a new IP. Feed your creativity while collaborating with our team of highly skilled developers to build something innovative, exhilarating, and expansively entertaining! As a founding member of our new ML research department, you’ll be focusing on bringing your knowledge of state-of-the-art ML models to solving problems and improving systems in game development; enriching our player experience and augmenting our team’s abilities to create high-quality content. Your initial focus will be on animation systems, including lip-sync, text-to-speech, and related techniques, but we aim to push the boundaries of on-device, real-time performance, uses of machine learning in other areas as well, giving you the opportunity to have an outsized impact on a wider area of video game systems. As a member of the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better—with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration.

Requirements

• 13+ years industry or relevant experience and 3+ years of experience developing ML models for real-time inference scenarios.
• A PhD, or applied research background in industry, around machine learning or relevant areas of technology.
• Very strong math skills with a solid understanding of linear algebra, statistics, probability, and other ML-related math specializations.
• Excellent Python development skills, with very good knowledge of modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Good understanding of ML inference considerations like on-device deployment, etc.
• Strong ability to distill complex technical concepts into important details in discussions with inter-disciplinary teams.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of animation systems (IK, etc.), computer graphics, real-time physics, etc.
• Working knowledge of C++ programming.
• Experience in the computer games industry.

Responsibilities

• Developing and training models to solve concrete game-related problems initially focused on animation, lip-sync, text-to-speech, and more.
• Working closely with domain experts from Elsewhere, Activision, and Microsoft, to advance state of art quality and real-time inference performance.
• Helping to identify training data needs and devise data acquisition strategies together with domain experts and asset creators.
• Creating best practices for research and productization, developing robust and efficient training pipelines for production cases.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees