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Research Engineer, Data Foundations

Runway

Remote · Remote · Mid

$270,000 – $370,000

Listed on Runway’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role focuses on designing and managing the datasets that train world simulation models, encompassing dataset creation, synthetic data pipelines, and controlled experiments to measure how data composition affects model performance. It suits machine learning engineers with 4+ years of experience who want to shape AI capabilities directly through data strategy rather than model architecture alone.

Our summary, not Runway’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 4+ years of machine learning experience
  • Experience with large multimodal datasets and generative models (video, image, or multimodal)
  • Deep intuition for how data composition and quality affect model capabilities
  • Proficiency with at least one ML framework (PyTorch or JAX)
  • Experience with distributed compute tools (Ray or Kubernetes)

Nice to have

  • Data-centric ML approaches
  • Work across full research stack from data analysis to model training to evaluation

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