About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Backend team to help us build cutting-edge, AI-powered video creation and collaboration tools. Rather than specialists, we’re seeking curiosity-driven engineers who are determined problem solvers and thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments. Our engineering team is highly collaborative and works on a wide variety of exciting challenges, including building backend services for interactive video processing and streaming, and deploying cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to production.

A peek at our technical stack 🔍

Our video streaming backend components are written in Python, use a lot of FFmpeg/libav and HLS for on-the-fly transcoding, PyTorch and TorchScript for ML inference, and are deployed as containerized services on Kubernetes. Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management are written in Typescript and node.js and are deployed as serverless functions on AWS Lambda.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Work with a world-class engineering team pushing the boundaries of creativity and content creation on the browser
• Work across the Backend stack to implement new product features for Runway’s machine learning based video creation and collaboration tools
• Create server-side components using the latest in machine learning and graphics
• Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases

What you’ll need 💻

• 3+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, ideally backend focused
• Demonstrated fluency of one or more programming languages, including but not limited to Python
• Experience in architecting production-ready systems and familiarity with debugging and profiling tools
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
• Humility and open mindedness; at Runway we love to learn from one another

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $160,000-190,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a strong Staff Software Engineer to help us build scalable and robust data infrastructure to power Runway’s applied research. You will be the first hire in a new team that’s focused on building data pipelines to support all of Runway’s generative model training and continuous model improvement. The best fit for this role has experience with building large-scale systems for analysis, curation, and retrieval of multimodal data, as well as strong system design and collaboration skills.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Build out pipelines for the creation, curation, and processing of large-scale multimodal datasets
• Create internal tooling to enable Runway’s applied research team to build workflows and run experiments on that infrastructure

What you’ll need 💻

• Strong knowledge of Python
• Experience with one or more frameworks for large-scale data processing (e.g. Spark, Ray, etc) and one or more ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX)
• Experience building out data pipelines from scratch and optimizing those pipelines for high performance and great developer experience
• Familiarity and experience with AWS and/or GCP is a bonus

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $190,000-230,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Frontend team to help us build cutting-edge, AI-powered video creation and collaboration tools. Rather than specialists, we’re seeking curiosity-driven engineers who are determined problem solvers and thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments. Our engineering team is highly collaborative and works on a wide variety of exciting challenges, including developing new interfaces for AI content creation and deploying cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to production.

A peek at our technical stack 🔍

The rich UI of our generative AI tools is powered by Typescript and React/Redux, while the real time compositing and graphics engine behind our interactive preview runs on WebGL2 and WebAssembly. Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management are written in Typescript and node.js and are deployed as serverless functions on AWS Lambda.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Create rich multimedia interfaces using the latest, cutting-edge AI video generation models: Gen-1 and Gen-2
• Work with a world-class engineering team pushing the boundaries of creativity and content creation on the browser
• Take on new challenges across the Frontend stack to implement new product features for Runway’s machine learning based generative AI tools
• Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases

What you’ll need 💻

• 4+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, ideally frontend focused
• Demonstrated fluency of one or more programming languages, including but not limited to Javascript/Typescript
• Experience in architecting production-ready systems and familiarity with debugging and profiling tools
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
• Humility and open mindedness; at Runway we love to learn from one another

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $160,000-190,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer to help us optimize our AI models for media generation. The ideal candidate for this role has extensive experience improving the performance of model training and inference, strong low-level understanding of GPU workloads, and thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Optimize our state-of-the-art AI models for video generation, such as Gen-1 and Gen-2
• Build tooling to improve the efficiency and reliability of distributed training runs on Runway’s HPC cluster

What you’ll need 💻

• 3+ years of experience in a role optimizing machine learning model inference and training on NVIDIA hardware
• Knowledge of Python, C/C++, CUDA, and extensive experience profiling GPU performance and distributed training runs
• Contributions to an ML framework (such as PyTorch), optimized runtimes for inference (such as TensorRT) or compilers (such as GCC)
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $150,000-$200,000

About the role

At Runway, we’re looking for an FP&A leader to partner with our Head of Finance to plan and build the foundation for Runway’s FP&A function.

In this role, you will own all FP&A activities and processes, inclusive of monthly reporting, strategic planning, as well as proposing and implementing changes and automations that enable intentional and sustainable growth. You have experience working both in both large and small companies and are comfortable building a function from scratch and leading it.

What you’ll do

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and business analytics activities, adapting these as the business grows and changes
• Work across Runway to improve financial discipline and enhance the financial and business acumen of non-financial leaders, becoming a trusted partner of leaders at Runway and helping to ensure spend is aligned with plans and priorities
• Drive the continual improvement and simplification of our financial processes
• Mentor and guide team members to ensure their professional growth
• Be extremely hands-on as well as strategic; we need leaders who are willing and able to operate at all levels

What you’ll need

• Experience working in B2B SaaS is not a strict requirement, but is highly preferred.
• Must have the capacity to think big, a bias for action, and willingness to take ownership.
• Growth mindset that prioritizes continuous operational improvement and service excellence.
• Experience leading both corporate FP&A and business partnership
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to tell a story with numbers
• Experience with scaling business processes globally and operating in environments that have achieved significant scale.
• Excitement about AI and motivation to continuously learn more about accounting for this new and exciting space!

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $190,000 - $230,000

About the role

We’re looking for Commercial Staff Members to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, business folks, and more. You aren’t the typical Sales Team member, you like to think creatively and lift constraints that block imagination.

In this role you will be an early member of a fast growing commercial team. You will consult with our existing enterprise customer base as well as potential customers in driving meaningful relationships and growth. You will handle pre and post-sale work, ensuring we are always making valuable contributions for our customers and revenue to our bottom line.

Things are always moving quickly at Runway. We need team members with an agile and dynamic mentality, who are comfortable with change, and always willing to go above and beyond to ensure a job is done optimally.

What you’ll do

• Source leads and drive business from initial customer engagement to close; meeting or exceeding quarterly and annual bookings objectives
• Lead and close large scale deals: build pipeline, forecast business, lead the internal team, communicate key updates, and gather competitive intelligence
• Be accountable for selling to existing customers and net new customers
• Manage relationships with our customers, providing technical guidance and technical training
• Develop and deliver product demonstrations to prospects
• Convey customer requirements, use cases, and workflows to our Product Management team
• Liaise between customers and our internal teams in order to provide the best technical support and experience

What you’ll need

• Experience selling B2B SaaS
• Proven track record of success exceeding revenue targets
• Understanding of our technical and competitive landscape
• Proven ability to lead and close large scale deals
• Ability to deliver complex information to customers in a clear and concise way
• Ability to thrive in a constantly changing and growing environment
• Excitement about AI and motivation to continuously learn more about this new and exciting space!

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range for base: $110,000 - $130,000

Note: this role also includes a commission component based on revenue targets.

About the role

We’re looking for Commercial Staff Members to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, business folks, and more. You aren’t the typical Sales Team member, you like to think creatively and lift constraints that block imagination.

In this role you will be an early member of a fast growing commercial team. You will consult with our existing enterprise customer base as well as potential customers in driving meaningful relationships and growth. You will handle pre and post-sale work, ensuring we are always making valuable contributions for our customers and revenue to our bottom line.

Things are always moving quickly at Runway. We need team members with an agile and dynamic mentality, who are comfortable with change, and always willing to go above and beyond to ensure a job is done optimally.

What you’ll do

• Partner with our Sales and Account Management teams to articulate Runway’s value proposition, vision and strategy to prospects and existing customers
• Thoroughly understand all aspects of the Runway platform to explain the technology, workflows and use cases to users and organizations
• Serve as the day-to-day technical expert for both pre and post sales
• Develop and deliver product demonstrations to prospects; craft content and lead demonstrations to show customers how to leverage Runway
• Convey customer requirements, use cases, and workflows to our Product Management team
• Serve as a means of translation between technical and non-technical audiences, both internally and externally
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, research, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical briefings and/or presentations and articulate the successes achieved through using Runway in Quarterly Business Reviews with customers

What you’ll need

• Experience selling B2B SaaS
• Proven track record of success exceeding revenue targets
• Understanding of our technical and competitive landscape
• Proven ability to lead and close large scale deals
• Ability to deliver complex information to customers in a clear and concise way
• Ability to thrive in a constantly changing and growing environment
• Excitement about AI and motivation to continuously learn more about this new and exciting space!

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range for base: $150,000 - $170,000

Note: this role also includes a commission component based on revenue targets.

About the role

We’re looking for Commercial Staff Members to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, business folks, and more. You aren’t the typical Sales Team member, you like to think creatively and lift constraints that block imagination.

In this role you will be an early member of a fast growing commercial team. You will consult with our existing enterprise customer base as well as potential customers in driving meaningful relationships and growth. You will handle pre and post-sale work, ensuring we are always making valuable contributions for our customers and revenue to our bottom line.

Things are always moving quickly at Runway. We need team members with an agile and dynamic mentality, who are comfortable with change, and always willing to go above and beyond to ensure a job is done optimally.

What you’ll do

• Own the relationship with our enterprise customers, providing technical guidance and training, as well as identifying key stakeholders and building relationships with them plus the users interacting with our platform
• Thoroughly understand all aspects of the Runway platform to explain the technology, workflows and use cases to users and organizations
• Develop and implement strategies that increase customer product adoption, engagement, and growth at scale to drive revenue expansion
• Enable successful and consistent renewals to maintain existing customer revenue, as well as identify and execute on new growth opportunities with customers
• Lead and close large scale deals: build pipeline, forecast business, lead the internal team, communicate key updates, and gather competitive intelligence
• Lead key initiatives including: educating customers on new products/features, ongoing customer checkpoints, business reviews, and technical escalations; identifying critical goals and key performance indicators to clearly understand and measure client satisfaction
• Develop and deliver product demonstrations to customers
• Be a champion for our customers and work with our internal teams to translate customer feedback into product insights; Liaise between customers and our internal teams in order to provide the best technical support and experience

What you’ll need

• Experience selling B2B SaaS
• Proven track record of success exceeding revenue targets
• Understanding of our technical and competitive landscape
• Proven ability to lead and close large scale deals
• Ability to deliver complex information to customers in a clear and concise way
• Ability to thrive in a constantly changing and growing environment
• Excitement about AI and motivation to continuously learn more about this new and exciting space!

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range for base: $110,000 - $130,000

Note: this role also includes a commission component based on revenue targets.

About the role

We're in search of a versatile creative, akin to a Swiss Army knife, to collaborate intimately with our Studios and creative teams. This position demands a high degree of flexibility and autonomy in executing creative projects, onboarding enterprise clients, testing innovative research models, producing captivating visual content, and venturing boldly into unexplored domains.

What you’ll do

• Craft captivating visuals for demos, marketing assets, and products
• Collaborate within RunwayStudios to produce and support new projects
• Assist in testing new research models, working closely with the research team
• Facilitate onboarding and address enterprise customers' queries related to Runway's integration in professional post-production tasks
• Help test and design new product interactions
• Represent and champion Runway to the broader audience

What you’ll need

• A keen eye for design and impeccable aesthetic judgment
• Proficiency across a diverse range of creative tools, encompassing video editing, visual effects, design, and communication
• Robust written communication skills
• A self-directed mindset

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Product Manager to help us develop cutting-edge AI tools. This role is for someone who has a combination of strong technical or ML background and experience in product management. You have the ability to take the state-of-the-art AI systems our research team builds and turn them into impactful tools for our customers.

You’ll deeply understand what users want, what’s possible to build, and what’s strategic for our business. You’ll be a bridge between our users and our internal teams so we ship products that have the most value for Runway’s creators.

This role is a fundamental and critical part of the team for a market-defining company in its early stages.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Work alongside our research team to define new AI applications that solve customer needs and drive business value
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design to productize research and continuously improve existing tools
• Define and analyze metrics, talk with users weekly, and conduct A/B tests to discover use cases, validate pain points, and prioritize features

What you’ll need 💻

• 1+ years of experience in an industry or academic role as a software engineer or researcher with direct coding experience
• 3+ years of product management experience
• Familiarity with the current state-of-the-art ML capabilities and ML products
• Experience working with fast-moving teams and building products from scratch
• Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to ultimate application
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $145,000-$190,000

About the role 🎉

We are looking for a passionate Product Designer to join a highly creative team and help us design, organize, and build the tools of the future. This candidate should be a motivated self-starter with experience working with engineering teams and shipping products.

This role will give you a chance to work in a highly collaborative environment with our leadership team as well as the product, engineering, and research teams. This role will have a high impact on the overall design & future of Runway.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Lead design projects, including new features and improvements to our mobile and web platforms.
• Produce, iterate, and prototype concepts for creative workflows.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering, product, and marketing teams to suggest product and process improvements.
• Coordinate and participate in user research with the design and product teams.
• Contribute to maintaining visual and user experience consistency across our products.

What you’ll need 💻

• Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products and strong visual design skills
• Understanding of modern web technologies, web interactions, and usability standards
• Experience conducting user research and ability to make use of data to inform design decisions
• Experience delivering and iterating product features and close collaboration with engineering teams
• Ability and flexibility to iterate fast and often
• Experience prototyping and a strong ability to communicate your ideas to others
• Passion for working with small teams, establishing a design culture, and creating a design-centric process within the company
• Knowledge and understanding of the creative tool space
• Bonus points if you have front-end development experience (esp. React!) or experience working with artificial intelligence.
• At Runway, it’s always a bonus if you have artistic and creative potential, particularly skills with video/audio editing, icon/typography design, Illustration, etc.)

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $160,000-$200,000

About the role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help manage a new team that is focused on productionizing new ML-based features to power Runway’s set of creative tools. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of machine learning and systems design.

What you’ll do

• Lead a talented ML team and keep pushing the boundaries of AI-based content creation
• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems to production
• Work weekly with leadership and the engineering team as a whole to review and set priority around goals
• Build a team of skilled engineers from diverse backgrounds

What you’ll need

• 2+ years of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role
• 4+ years of industry experience in an engineering and/or research role
• Strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects
• Solid knowledge of at least one machine learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• Empathetic and inclusive leadership style
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $220,000-$260,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for Staff Applied Research Scientists to help us develop cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to power our creative tools. We are looking for candidates with a strong background building impactful and novel machine learning projects, strong software engineering skills, and who are deeply interested in seeing their research materialize in novel user interfaces for creative tasks.

This is a cross-functional team that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with our backend team to help bring your research models to production, and with our design and frontend engineering team to make sure that your machine learning models work in harmony with the user interfaces that interact with them.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Develop innovative research projects in computer vision, focusing on generative models for image and video.
• Build new computer vision pipelines for automating visual effects tasks (such as video segmentation, pinpointing, tracking).
• Work with a world-class engineering team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the product organization to bring cutting-edge machine learning models to production.

What you’ll need 💻

• 5+ years of relevant engineering or research experience in computer vision and/or graphics
• Expertise with programming such as Python, C++, CUDA, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
• Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
• Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
• Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $180,000-$230,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Research Team Lead to lead a group of Runway's Applied ML Research team. This person will be leading and driving the executions for new applied research projects. This person should have a strong research background in computer vision, and be deeply interested in managing and enabling other researchers to develop state-of-the-art research.

This is a cross-functional role that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production, as well as with the Product team to initiate and work on projects that deliver clear user value.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Lead and grow a group of Runway’s applied machine learning research team
• Coordinate with the product team and the rest of the engineering team to define goals for your team that are aligned with overall company initiatives
• Write tooling and prototypes to unblock and increase the productivity of other researchers
• Work with a world-class engineering & research team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser

What you’ll need 💻

• 4+ years of industry experience as a research scientist in computer vision
• High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring other researchers
• Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
• Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
• Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $190,000-$230,000

About the role

The Acceleration Program is an intensive, full-time, 3-month venture dedicated to fostering engineers, propelling them into accomplished machine learning engineer roles within our organization.

What you’ll do

• Tailored Mentorship: Participants are paired with seasoned researchers, with weekly check-ins to ensure steady progress.
• Evaluation & Transition: A stringent end-of-program review to assess competence, with successful candidates seamlessly transitioning to ML engineer roles within our team.
• Large Scale Access: Participants will have the opportunity of working with large scale GPU clusters for model training

What you’ll need

• Software Development Achievements: Creation of or significant contributions to widely-recognized software systems.
• Machine Learning Implementation: High-quality open-source implementations of machine learning research papers or autonomous research projects.
• Systems Programming Proficiency: Experience in high-performance distributed systems and systems programming
• Exceptional programming aptitude and a solid grasp of systems design.
• Demonstrable passion for AI, shown through continuous self-education via reading papers and hands-on experimentation.

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $180,000-$260,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer who can help us build new multimodal AI systems for media generation. The ideal candidate for this role has a combination of strong engineering skills, extensive experience working on machine learning projects, and thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Work with a world-class engineering team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser
• Collaborate with our research team to deploy state-of-the-art computer vision models to production
• Improve the performance and efficiency of our machine learning deployments

What you’ll need 💻

• Solid knowledge of at least one machine learning research framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow), and at least one high-performance inference framework (e.g. TensorRT, Apache TVM)
• Experience profiling and optimizing deep neural networks, including knowledge of GPU profiling tools such as NVIDIA Nsight
• Familiarity with Python-based image and video manipulation/encoding/decoding frameworks, such as OpenCV and PyAV
• Experience with cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Ability to write robust and maintainable client-server architectures and APIs
• Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $165,000-$210,000

About the role 🎉

We’re looking for a Research Director to help us manage and grow Runway’s Applied ML Research team to create cutting-edge machine learning tools for AI-based content creation. This person should have a strong research background in computer vision, and be deeply interested in managing and enabling other researchers to develop state-of-the-art research.

This is a cross-functional role that requires strong communication and collaboration skills; you will have a chance to work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production, as well as with the Product team to initiate and develop research projects that deliver clear user value.

What you’ll do 🎨

• Work with a world-class engineering & research team pushing the boundaries of content creation on the browser
• Lead, hire, and grow Runway’s applied machine learning research team, supporting the research scientists & ML engineers on the team in their career growth and learning
• Coordinate with the product team and the rest of the engineering team to define high-level research goals aligned with overall company initiatives
• Write tooling and prototypes to unblock and increase the productivity of other researchers

What you’ll need 💻

• 4+ years of industry experience as a research scientist in computer vision
• High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring and supporting the career growth of other researchers
• Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
• Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
• Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $210,000-$260,000