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Research Engineer, Data Foundations

Runway

Remote · Remote

$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 owns the data strategy for AI world models, designing datasets and running experiments to understand how training data shapes model capabilities across creative and robotics applications. It suits experienced machine learning engineers who want to bridge data science and research at a company building large-scale generative systems.

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

Skills this role names

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What they ask for

Required

  • 4+ years machine learning experience
  • Experience with large multimodal datasets and generative models
  • Understanding of how data composition and quality affect model performance
  • Ability to work across the full research stack: data analysis, dataset creation, model training, and evaluation
  • Proficiency in at least one ML framework like PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience with distributed compute tools like Ray or Kubernetes

Nice to have

  • Data-centric machine learning approaches

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