This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Research Scientist – Interactive Avatars based in Spain.

This is a senior research role at the forefront of generative AI, focused on building the next generation of interactive, avatar-based video agents. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary R&D; organization combining research, engineering, and data expertise. Your focus will be on creating models that can understand audio and visual signals and respond with natural, human-like conversational behavior. You’ll shape research direction while balancing ambitious long-term opportunities with near-term product impact. The role combines deep technical research, hands-on model development, evaluation, and research leadership. You’ll also mentor researchers and influence technical decisions across multiple teams, helping transform breakthrough ideas into production-ready capabilities.

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Accountabilities:

• Define the research direction and roadmap for dyadic interaction modeling,



balancing long-term research opportunities with immediate product priorities.

• Advance the perceptual capabilities of interactive AI agents, including understanding user audio and video and generating contextually appropriate responses.

• Develop and post-train multimodal models capable of producing rich, natural, and responsive dyadic interactions from audio and video inputs.

• Adapt and extend diffusion models to incorporate conversational conditioning signals such as dialogue state, turn-taking, listener cues, and contextual reactions.

• Research and develop models capable of generating natural conversational behaviors, including gaze, facial expressions, body reactions, and backchannel responses.

• Design robust evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and automated test suites to continuously measure interaction quality.

• Collaborate closely with data specialists to define data requirements and shape

📌 Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars (España)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 España