Research Scientist (Visual Generative AI World Models)

Responsibilities

• check_circle Develop and evaluate new ideas in visual generative AI, multimodal modelling and world models, from initial hypothesis through experiment design, implementation, analysis and publication.
• check_circle Prepare, submit and present your work to AI conferences and workshops.
• check_circle Work with researchers, software engineers and silicon teams to understand how emerging AI workloads can shape, and be shaped by, future Graphcore hardware and software systems.

Basic qualifications

• Master's, PhD or equivalent experience in a technical discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering).
• Experience in visual generative AI, visual understanding or world models.
• Strong Python programming skills using a modern deep learning framework, e.g. PyTorch or JAX.
• Familiarity with deep learning fundamentals, including model architectures, optimisation, evaluation and scaling.
• Ability to design, execute, analyse and clearly communicate ML experiments.
• Mathematical foundations to support the above, including calculus, probability theory and linear algebra.
• Evidence of research ability, such as conference or workshop submissions, publications, technical reports, open-source projects or impactful industrial research.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with multimodal reasoning or generation, action-conditioned models, embodied AI, robotics or autonomous systems.
• Lower-level programming for hardware efficiency, e.g. C++/CUDA/Triton.
• Practical familiarity with hardware considerations for deep learning, such as parallelism, memory hierarchy, vector and matrix engines, data movement, bandwidth limits and performance bottlenecks.
• Practical familiarity with deep learning software stacks, such as graph compilation, kernel fusion, XLA/ATen operations, streams and asynchronous execution.

Benefits

• check_circle In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection.
• check_circle We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support).
• check_circle We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar!
• check_circle We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.
• check_circle We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us.
• check_circle We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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