Senior Staff - Research Scientist and Team Lead in Computer Vision (W/M)

🔎 Who are we?

Kyutai is a non-profit laboratory dedicated to open research in Artificial Intelligence (IA). Our team is focused on few, high-impact projects on frontier AI models.

Led by a world-class team of scientists in language models, audio processing and computer vision, Kyutai conducts cutting-edge research on multimodal, adaptable and compact models. Less than 1.5 years after its start, Kyutai has open-sourced several ground-breaking models: Moshi, the first full-duplex voice AI allowing natural spoken dialogue with latency under 200ms and no imposed speaker turns; Helium-1, a very compact and powerful multi-lingual open language model; Hibiki, the first voice-to-voice simultaneous translation model that preserves voice and can run fully locally on a mobile phone; MoshiVis, the first visual-speech model (VSM) to allow natural spoken dialogue around visual content. Moving forward, Kyutai is accelerating its radical exploration of multimodal models.

In this context, Kyutai is looking for a world-class Computer Vision scientist to develop and lead ambitious projects in multimodal AI.

📋 Missions:

As a Senior Research Scientist at Kyutai, you will:

• Conduct research in CV to push the frontiers of multimodal IA

• Define ambitious research goals and work toward them, along a well-defined timeline

• Publish reproducible research and open-source high-quality models and codes

• Develop with Kyutai’s leadership, a CV research program involving several permanent and non-permanent staff

• Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for this team

• Support and lead this team so that it achieves its ambitious goals

• Be a role model and provide mentoring to interns, PhD students and more junior staff

• Contribute to strategic partnerships of Kyutai

• Contribute to Kyutai’s visibility via scientific talks, keynotes, panels, and public demos

• Contribute to Kyutai’s long-term vision with other senior scientists

🧑‍💻 About you:

• Recognized scientific expertise in CV (understanding/generation, 2D/3D/video)

• 10+ years of experience in competitive environments

• Excellent publication track record in premiere CV/graphics/ML venues

• Track record of impactful projects as individual contributor and/or principal investigator

• Good experience with mentoring (interns, PhD students, junior researchers)

• Experience with leading a small team toward clear objectives

• Hands-on experience with large-scale multi-GPU experimental work

• Strong drive for open-sourcing high-quality models and codes