[Hiring] Member of Applied AI Team @Runway

Role Description

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. This kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made, and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

This is a role for people who want to own a problem, not an account. You'll sit with the biggest studios, brands, and Fortune 100 companies in the world, figure out what's actually standing between them and production, and build whatever removes it. Some weeks that's a workflow. Some weeks it's a plugin or an integration nobody has written yet. Some weeks it's getting a room of executives to make a decision they've been putting off.

Your work will be on screen: Emmy-winning shows, Oscar-winning films, Super Bowl commercials, the stuff people actually watch. The things you build for one customer tend to become product for all of them.

No two weeks are the same, but you can expect to:

• Find the real problem: sit with the creative, technical, and executive teams at a customer, map how they actually work, and locate the blocker between them and production.
• Build the first of its kind: the demo that shows a studio head or a Fortune 100 CMO something nobody has shown them before.
• Make it reusable: turn the one-off that unblocked one customer into the workflow, plugin, or integration the next ten customers start from.
• Run the evaluation: own evaluation plans end to end, guide managed trials, build tailored demos on the customer's own footage and brand.
• Scope deployments that land: 4–12 week engagements with customer-defined success criteria.
• Get customers to production fast: take new technical and non-technical customers from signed contract to first production call in days rather than quarters.
• Present to anyone: walk an analyst through a pipeline in the morning and a studio head through a production plan in the afternoon.
• Bring the field back to the product: embed with Product, Engineering, and Creative to turn what you saw at the customer into roadmap.
• Measure what the customer measures: time to production, usage before and after a project.

Qualifications

• You build things that run in production.
• Experience with Python or TypeScript, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines.
• Ability to read and debug code, and explain it to a customer's engineering team.
• Experience deploying AI or ML systems and integrations inside complex organizations.
• Ability to hold a room of executives and a room of engineers, and translate between the two.
• Nice to have: data tooling (SQL, BigQuery, Retool), or experience in media, entertainment, or advertising production.

Requirements

• Low ego: the customer's outcome matters more than who gets the credit.
• Comfort with open-ended problems in unstructured environments.
• Builders who would rather prototype than debate, and who keep iterating with the customer until it actually works.
• Adaptive and introspective: willing to learn, guide, lead, and follow.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market rates.
• Pay equity for our team.
• Consideration for candidates with varying levels of experience.
• Open communication regarding salary expectations.

Company Description

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed.

• Universal World Simulator
• GWM-1
• Gen-4.5
• General World Models
• Robotics SDK
• Conversational Real-time Agents
• Runway Studios

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:

• Crain's
• InHerSight
• BuiltIn NYC
• INC