Role overview
Genies is an avatar technology company powering the next era of interactive digital identity through Smart Avatars. With the Avatar Framework and intuitive creation tools, Genies enables developers, talent, and creators to generate and deploy game-ready Smart AI companions. The company’s technology stack supports full customization, AI-generated fashion and props, and seamless integration of user-generated content (UGC). Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA, Genies’ mission is to become the visual and interactive layer for the LLM-powered internet.
Genies is an avatar technology company powering the next era of interactive digital identity through AI companions. With the Avatar Framework and intuitive creation tools, Genies enables developers, talent, and creators to generate and deploy game-ready AI companions. The company’s technology stack supports full customization, AI-generated fashion and props, and seamless integration of user-generated content (UGC). Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA, Genies’ mission is to become the visual and interactive layer for the LLM-powered internet.
Genies seeks a talented Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to our R&D initiatives. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models that produce high-quality 3D assets for our avatar creation ecosystem. Collaborating closely with our engineering and creative teams, you will incorporate AI and machine learning capabilities into our creator tools and product offerings. This opportunity not only allows you to join a dynamic startup at the forefront of a new industry and emerging technologies, but also to become one of the pioneering engineers shaping the future of consumer self-expression and creativity. We believe that the future of consumer social experiences will be consumer, creator and developer driven, and we are looking for a thought partner who can assist us in accomplishing our vision of transforming digital identity, representation, and social experiences.
Why Genies?You are curious about the future of avatar technology and empowering users to represent their digital selves. You have an underlying passion for encountering complex problems and creating smart, strategic solutions. How avatars will play in the consumer marketplace resonates with you and you see a future where our digital identities help to create a world where people can create, express and be their true authentic selves.
What you'll work on
- Collaborate with R&D and Application teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into our avatar creation ecosystem, leveraging advanced 3D computer vision (CV) and computer graphics (CG) techniques.
- Design, train, fine-tune, accelerate, optimize, and deploy ML models and technical frameworks.
- Utilize a strong understanding of computer graphics pipelines, computational geometry, and 3D principles to synthesize meshes, images, and/or motion.
- Apply practical expertise in implementing white paper concepts to develop user-facing creative technologies.
- Manage ML framework resources and infrastructure, including dataset management, client/cloud computing options, experiment tracking and model deployment techniques.
- Partner with Product and Creative teams to refine AI/ML-powered creation tools and interfaces.
- Communicate technical decisions and project updates to stakeholders such as engineers, designers, and product managers.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies in AI and advise on their strategic integration into innovative solutions.
What we're looking for
Industry experience with AI-driven content creation as it relates to games or animation, including:
- 3D reconstruction
- Object and body tracking
- 3D geometry analysis (segmentation & tagging)
- Generative models for avatars and textures
- Avatar behavioral systems.
Experience with volumetric differentiable rendering techniques using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or Gaussian Splatting, including scene representation learning, novel view synthesis, and integration with neural rendering pipelines.
Experience training and scaling large machine learning models, including optimizing training pipelines,managing compute resources and deploying models to production.
Hands-on experience with ML infrastructure, such as distributed training, data pipelines, model versioning, and experiment tracking.
Publication track record at top conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV, ICML).
Contributions to popular open-source machine learning projects.