About this role
Company Description
Join Canva’s Beijing AI team to develop frontier language and multimodal generative models using high-performance GPU clusters and high-quality datasets. You’ll collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to bring research advances into products that empower hundreds of millions of users.
Job Description
What you’ll do
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Define and lead research initiatives in LLM / VLM pre-training and multimodal generation, informed by frontier research and product needs.
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Design and run large-scale training experiments, analyze results, and improve model capabilities, training efficiency, and stability.
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Explore model architectures, training methods, post-training and reinforcement learning algorithms, and high-quality synthetic data pipelines.
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Collaborate across teams to bring models into production and share findings through technical documentation, publications, and presentations.
Qualifications
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Core pre-training expertise gained on teams such as Qwen, Kimi, GLM, or DeepSeek.
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Experience with autoregressive or diffusion models for text-to-image, video, or 3D generation.
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Deep expertise in multimodal architectures, pre-training data, reinforcement learning, or synthetic data.