Senior Research Scientist - Design Generation (Sydney)
Canva
Senior Research Scientist - Design Generation (Sydney)
Canva is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join the Design Generation team in Sydney, working on generative models for AI-assisted design. The role involves training and evaluating generative models at scale, with a focus on LLMs and multimodal models. Candidates should have a PhD in AI/ML with at least 2 years of industry experience, or 6+ years without a PhD.
Senior Research Scientist - Design Generation (Sydney)
Canva is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join the Design Generation team in Sydney, working on generative models for AI-assisted design. The role involves training and evaluating generative models at scale, with a focus on LLMs and multimodal models. Candidates should have a PhD in AI/ML with at least 2 years of industry experience, or 6+ years without a PhD.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Train and evaluate generative models like LLMs for design generation
- Design and run experiments to test hypotheses about model architecture, training approach, and data
- Build and improve evaluation methods and benchmarks for measuring generative design quality
- Translate research findings into techniques and approaches the team can move toward production
- Investigate model quality issues, failure modes, and gaps against user and business needs
- Stay current with generative modelling research and bring relevant advances into the team's work
- Communicate research findings and trade-offs clearly, including to non-research stakeholders, and share knowledge across the team