--- title: 'Research Scientist, Professional Creative Workflows at Stability AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/research-scientist-professional-creative-workflows-stability-ai-remote-fjzr5zw8c3jz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Research Scientist, Professional Creative Workflows at Stability AI - **Company:** Stability AI - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** http://stability.ai/careers?gh_jid=4924873101 ## Job description Research Scientist, Professional Creative Workflows ## ## About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist to join our Research team. The role focuses on advancing the next generation of generative AI systems for professional creative workflows, spanning image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design. This is a general research role with room for academic publication, long-horizon exploration, and technically ambitious work, while remaining grounded in real projects with meaningful product impact. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between frontier research, rigorous experimentation, and prototype systems that inform how professional creators work with generative AI. We are looking for a broad, technically deep researcher who can combine ideas across fields and modalities, connecting concepts from areas such as computer vision, graphics, generative modeling, and design to address complex creative workflows. You will work on research that enables creators and enterprises to generate, edit, structure, refine, and reuse visual assets across modalities, supporting workflows in which different forms of media and design intent work together rather than as isolated generation tasks. ## Responsibilities - Conduct original research in generative AI for professional creative workflows across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design. - Develop new methods that advance the state of the art while remaining relevant to real creative and production workflows. - Publish research at leading academic venues where appropriate, while also contributing to high-impact internal projects. - Explore multimodal generative systems that integrate image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design, with an emphasis on controllability, editability, and reusable asset creation. - Translate research insights into prototypes, experiments, and model capabilities that can inform product direction. - Work with researchers, engineers, designers, and product teams to identify important research problems with meaningful downstream impact. - Design datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation protocols for professional workflows where quality, editability, consistency, brand adherence, and production usefulness matter. - Stay at the frontier of generative media research and identify opportunities to combine ideas across computer graphics, vision, language, video, and creative tooling. - Contribute to a research culture that values technical depth, intellectual breadth, publication quality, and practical relevance. ## Qualifications - Strong academic research track record in computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, generative modeling, computational imaging, visual computing, or a related field. - PhD or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or a closely related discipline. - Demonstrated ability to conduct original research, publish papers, and build working systems or prototypes. - Experience in generative and multimodal modeling, including areas such as diffusion models, transformers, 3D generation, neural rendering, inverse rendering, video generation, image editing, controllable generation, or design automation. - Broad technical background across several of the following areas: - Generative image models - Video generation or video editing - 3D asset generation, reconstruction, neural rendering, or geometry processing - Differentiable rendering, inverse rendering, materials, lighting, or relighting - Vector graphics, layout, typography, or design systems - Multimodal representation learning - Professional media, VFX, games, e-commerce, design, or creative tooling - Strong programming skills in Python and PyTorch, with the ability to implement, adapt, and extend modern research code. - Ability to reason about both research quality and workflow quality, including controllability, iteration speed, editability, consistency, reliability, and integration into existing creative processes. - Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain research ideas clearly to both research and product-oriented collaborators. - Evidence of creative technical judgment: the ability to combine ideas from different fields into new research directions rather than only incrementally improving existing systems. Highly Desirable - Publications at top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or related venues. - Research experience spanning more than one modality, especially across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, design, or multimodal generation. - Experience with professional creative domains such as VFX, games, animation, product visualization, advertising, graphic design, or 3D asset production. - Experience with controllable generation, layered image editing, material and lighting decomposition, multi-view consistency, relightable assets, vector-aware generation, or structured design outputs. - Experience building research prototypes that influence product direction or enable new product capabilities. ## Equal Employment Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses. ## About Stability AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Stability AI develops and deploys open generative AI models and enterprise platforms for creating images, video, audio, and 3D content. - **Entity Type**: Private (Unattributed VC – last round led by WPP in 2025; total funding ~$256M) - **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (with additional offices in London, United Kingdom) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Emad Mostaque, Cyrus Hodes (current CEO: Prem Akkaraju; Executive Chairman: Sean Parker) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Generative AI / Artificial Intelligence - **Target customers**: Enterprise teams in marketing, gaming, entertainment, and creative production; also individual developers and creators. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Activating humanity’s potential through generative AI.” (from LinkedIn) / Build for creatives first, provide enterprise-ready solutions. ## Products & Services - **Stable Diffusion (Image generation)**: Open-source and commercially licensed text-to-image models (e.g., Stable Diffusion 3.5), with APIs and self-hosted deployment options. - **Stable Video / 4D**: Models for video generation and editing, including volumetric generative media. - **Stable Audio**: Audio generation models; Stable Audio 3.0 released for artistic experimentation. - **Brand Studio**: Fully managed creative production platform for enterprise teams, leveraging the company’s models. - **Self-Hosted / Enterprise Deployment**: Custom licenses, indemnification, expert support, and compliance for on-premises or private cloud. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$36.9M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding ~$256M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue, Intel, WPP, Eric Schmidt, Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sean Parker, Sound Ventures, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. Partners include Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP, HubSpot, Mercado Libre. - **Growth Signals**: 8% YoY headcount growth (127 employees); 350M+ Stable Diffusion downloads; recently launched Brand Studio; partnerships with major entertainment and marketing firms; recognized as Fortune 50 AI Innovator and TIME's Most Influential Companies. ## Competitive Advantages - First-mover with Stable Diffusion (sparked the open generative AI wave) and a massive developer/creator ecosystem. - Broad modality coverage (image, video, audio, 3D) under one roof, with open-weight models that allow customization. - Enterprise-ready platform with managed hosting, compliance, and support – differentiated from pure research labs. - High-profile board (James Cameron, Dana Settle, Thomas Laffont) providing industry credibility and strategic connections. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening enterprise adoption through Brand Studio and self-hosted deployments. - Expanding audio and video capabilities (Stable Audio 3.0, video tools for gaming/entertainment). - Strengthening partnerships with large brands (e.g., WPP, EA, UMG) and embedding AI into existing creative workflows. - Maintaining open-model philosophy while offering commercial licenses and managed services. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Described as “artist-centric” with a mission to support creators. The company is at the forefront of generative AI, offering exposure to cutting-edge research (40%+ of staff in technical/research roles). Office locations in Los Angeles and London. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; global team across 14 countries suggests remote-friendly flexibility. - **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Work alongside world-class researchers and engineers from top tech companies (ex-Amazon, Meta, Google, Adobe). Opportunity to impact widely-used open-source models. However, employee rating on LinkedIn is 2.7/5 (31 reviews), with concerns around work-life balance (2.9) and career growth (2.7). Active job postings (5) trending down monthly but up yearly; hiring has slowed but remains steady. ## Sources 1. [stability.ai](https://stability.ai/) 2. [stability.ai/careers](https://stability.ai/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/stability-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stability-ai) 4. [cbinsights.com/company/stability-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/stability-ai) 5. 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