Research Scientist – Internship @ Flawless

Flawless is an award winning film technology company pioneering the generative AI revolution in filmmaking. Solving some of the biggest problems filmmakers face by empowering them with groundbreaking AI powered post production tools, allowing on screen dialogue to be visually changed without the need to reshoot or go back to set. The world’s first system has won multiple awards including TIME Best Inventions.

Founded in 2020 by Hollywood director, Scott Mann and serial technology entrepreneur Nick Lynes, Flawless is opening a world of new possibilities for filmmakers whilst ensuring the responsible adoption of generative AI. With headquarters in London and LA, Flawless has established an exceptional team of 100 world leaders in science, film and technology that have come from the likes of Adobe, Google, Lionsgate, NASA, Sony, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple (click here to find out more).

As a research scientist intern in the compositing research team at Flawless, you will work with a close-knit, passionate group of world-class researchers and scientists to tackle some of the most challenging problems in generative neural rendering, including but not limited to neural video compositing in-the-wild, with applications to inpainting and clean plate generation.

Flawless is looking for smart, self-motivated, and committed Research Interns to join our research team in Los Angeles, US. Our interns are given challenging research problems and provided with a clear project plan during the course of the internship. At Flawless, we want interns to succeed, and we have high expectations for performance, either by advancing the state of the art or bringing unique scientific value to our business.

Qualifications

Be enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in computer vision, visual computing, or related disciplines.
Have a strong background in computer vision, numerical optimization, and linear algebra.
Ability to conduct independent research (literature review and prototyping) with minimum supervision.
Have research experience demonstrated through implementing methods from top-tier conferences in computer vision, computational photography, and deep learning.
Be familiar with neural rendering and computational photography techniques, especially for photorealistic image synthesis.
Have extensive experience with DL frameworks such as PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
Excellent coding skills in Python.

Preferred Qualifications

Research experience with demonstrated publication record at top-tier conferences in computer vision/graphics, and deep learning such as ICCV, CVPR, and SIGGRAPH.
Hands-on experience with GANs and inpainting techniques, especially facial image synthesis and video-to-video translation methods
Familiarity with image and video segmentation techniques such as semantic face segmentation and video matting

Flawless is proud to emphasize an equal opportunity, safe environment for people to do their best work. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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