L'affichage de poste en français suivra / The French job posting follows.26WD, AI Research ScientistPosition OverviewAs a Senior Research Scientist in the AI Lab at Autodesk Research, you will conduct fundamental and applied research on Motion Foundation Models: general-purpose models that can represent, generate, edit, understand, and reason about motion. The work will initially focus on human and object motion and will extend toward multimodal and interactive settings involving text, trajectories, images, video, geometry, robot observations/actions, and other signals.You will work with scientists, researchers, developers, and designers across generative AI, computer vision, graphics, robotics, simulation, manufacturing, architecture, and construction to develop current model architectures, representations, training methods, datasets, and evaluations for motion intelligence.Autodesk's AI Lab is active in the wider research community, targeting publications at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, and other top-tier conferences. We collaborate with leading academic and industry labs, combining the best of an academic research environment with product-guided research.



This role will report to a Manager of Research Science in the AI Lab.Job Requisition ID #26WD ResponsibilitiesDevelop new foundation-model approaches for motion generation, editing, understanding, reasoning, and representationDrive research end-to-end: identify high-value questions, formulate hypotheses, implement ideas, run experiments, analyze failures, iterate, and communicate conclusionsInvestigate motion representations and tokenization, generative modeling, multimodal conditioning and alignment, scalable training, post-training, and model refinementDesign rigorous evaluations, benchmarks, ablations, and diagnostics that reveal genuine model progress and failure modesBuild and modify research code, training pipelines, and data pipelines, using modern AI coding agents where useful while maintaining ownership of correctness, reproducibility, and scientific qualityWork toward ambitious long-term goals while defining concrete milestones and maintaining a high pace of empirical iterationCollaborate across a global research team and with academic and industry partners; publish at top-tier conferences and help

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