Research Intern, Video Generation

Job Title: Research Intern – Video Generation

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite preferred; remote work supported)

Overview

As an AI researcher intern at Utopai Studios, you will help shape the future of media (image/video) generation models for professional filmmaking. Your work will center on advancing continuous pre-training and post-training methods to enhance model performance, controllability, and creative capabilities (reasoning and editing). You will also drive the development of future film workflow agents and unified text-image-video modeling. You will design and run scalable training pipelines on large-scale GPU clusters, bridging cutting-edge generative research with real-world filmmaking applications.

Responsibilities

• Participant in training and fine-tuning of image and video generative models on clusters with hundreds to thousands of GPUs.
• Research and develop advanced training strategies, including continuous training, RL-based post-training for advanced capabilities (e.g., reasoning, controllability, consistency), and unified text-image-video Auto-regressive modeling.
• Design and optimize high-quality data pipelines to enable effective multimodal training with large-scale domain specific datasets.
• Build automated evaluation frameworks to assess fidelity, coherence, and adherence to input conditions.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and creative teams to translate research breakthroughs into practical filmmaking production workflows.

Qualifications

• PhD Student in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent senior research experience.
• Deep expertise in diffusion, transformer, and multimodal generation models (e.g., text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video).
• Proficiency in PyTorch and distributed training frameworks.
• Research contributions demonstrated through publications in top AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH).

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AI filmmaking tools and workflows (e.g., MidJourney, Runway, Wan, ComfyUI).
• Interest in AI filmmaking or experience creating your own AI short films.
  

About Utopai Studios

Utopai Studios (https://utopaistudios.com, formerly Cybever) is an AI-native film and television studio that empowers creators to tell epic stories and transform finite resources into infinite worlds. The studio rebranded from Cybever, the 3D world creation and video generation innovator. Combining proprietary production technology with world-class creative talent, Utopai develops and produces ambitious, cinematic-quality projects for audiences worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale and West Hollywood, California, with a European subsidiary in Berlin, the studio originates its own slate of high-profile films and series while partnering with leading global players to bring bold storytelling visions to life.

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