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 Be Doing :- 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.
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or a related field with a strong emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional industry / research experience in machine learning, computer vision, or computer graphics.
- Proficiency in Python programming and extensive experience with AI/DL Frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Experience in multimodal training for 3D computer vision and graphics, such as:
- Generative models (e.g., diffusion, GANs, VAEs, flow-based)
- Advanced architectures like Transformers, Vision Transformers (ViT), Diffusion Transformers (DiT), and Mixture of Experts (MoE).
- Excellent teamwork skills, effective in working with cross-functional teams and engaging stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
- Background in computer graphics, computational geometry, and 3D principles is a plus.
- 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.
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.
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What We Do
Genies is the world’s largest avatar technology company, bringing the power of NFTs and crypto to culture through its mission to own the “virtual being identity layer.” The company has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars as virtual beings in society through its consumer-first future vision coined “Decentralized Disney of the metaverse.”
Genies provides consumers and celebrities with the tools to create high-quality avatars, enabling anyone to own their digital identity and express themselves across metaverses. The technology features an avatar wearables/skins marketplace built with Dapper Labs, API integrations, and a consumer app.
Investors include Bond (Mary Meeker), NEA (Rick Yang), Breyer Capital, CAA, and Tull Investment Group.
The company has 99% celebrity avatar market share through its partnerships with Universal Music, Warner Music Group, NFLPA, MLBPI, NBPA, and individually with thousands of celebrities like Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Migos, Cardi B, and J Balvin.
