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.
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 high-quality

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