Research Scientist – LTX Video

Who we are

Lightricks is an AI-first company bridging imagination and creation through innovative tools for content creation. Our apps – Facetune, Videoleap, and Photoleap – inspire creators, while our platform, Popular Pays, connects brands with creators to scale marketing. Our newest product, LTX Studio, is an all-in-one AI storytelling platform powered by LTX-Video, our open-source, foundational text-to-video model. Widely adopted by the research and open-source communities, including native integrations in ComfyUI and Diffusers, LTX-Video drives groundbreaking content creation with unmatched speed and quality. Combining advanced computational graphics and generative AI, we empower creators and brands worldwide.

The role

Following the success of LTX-Video, our widely adopted open-source text-to-video model, we are expanding our efforts to develop cutting-edge video generation models and are hiring Research Scientists to join our LTX-Video Core team.

At Lightricks, we’ve been at the forefront of innovation in text-to-image and text-to-video generation, with LTX-Video driving our flagship product, LTX Studio, and gaining significant traction in the research and open-source communities, including integrations with platforms like ComfyUI and Diffusers.

This role focuses on pioneering model architecture and pre-training algorithms, shaping the next generation of our foundational generative AI models.

What you will be doing

• Pre-train and fine-tune video and image generative models to pursue state of the art results.
• Publish papers and open-source models to benefit the research community and advance the field.
• Design and implement machine learning models for text-to-video generation.
• Collaborate with data engineers to curate and preprocess text and video data.
• Optimize models for high performance, ensuring efficiency in training and inference phases.
• Build new controls and capabilities into generative text-to-video models.
• Stay updated with the latest developments in Generative AI, particularly in the field of image, video, and audio.
• Work closely with product teams to integrate AI models into applications and services.
• Conduct experiments and prototype new concepts to advance the capabilities of our AI tools.

Your skills and experience

• PhD or equivalent experience in the field of generative AI
• Track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in generative AI, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects.
• Excellence in engineering as well as research with strong programming skills in Python, and deep familiarity with machine learning frameworks.
• Experience in training large diffusion transformer  models from scratch.
• Proven track record of handling large-scale datasets to train neural networks effectively.