Research Scientist Graduate (Ads Creative) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, California, US Until 10/3/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 4, 2026 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

Description

We are Creative AI team under Monetization Technology. Our team focuses on developing cutting-edge Generative AI techs across all modalities, including text, image, videos, landing pages, etc., and creates industry-leading technical solutions to improve creative efficiency for advertisers, agencies and creators. We are committed to automated creative workflows by leveraging Generative AI technologies, to increase overall revenue for advertisers, agencies and creators.

We aim to drive and lead generative AI in the ads tech and creative industry, powering products and driving values for our clients, creators, and the whole ecosystem. We are looking for infrastructure engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable and reliable software/infrastructure, partner across functions with global teams, and make big impacts. If you are someone who welcomes challenges, we are eager to have you on the team!

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities:
- Optimize the post training of advertising video generation based on the latest generative models and technologies
- Analyze the reasons behind high-quality advertisement videos and the defective parts in AIGC videos via multimodal video understanding.
- Train the reward model based on the ad delivery data of video ads to guide the optimization of the video generation model.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience of developing multimodality foundation models and work or internship experience in an AI research organization is a plus
- Strong publications record in top conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc)

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About this role

Summary

Develop generative AI models for advertising videos, analyze multimodal video data, optimize model training.

Job title

Research Scientist Graduate (Ads Creative) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Experience level

graduate level

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Jose, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PhD in computer science or relatedmultimodality foundation modelsAI research experiencepublications in top conferences

Preferred skills

hands-on experience in AI research organizationpublications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR

Specializations

generative AImultimodal modelsvideo understandingAI research
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

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