Applied ML Engineer, Real‑Time Video Generation
CantinaPosted December 12, 2025
190000 - 225000 EUR
Full Time
About the Company
Cantina Labs is a social AI company that develops cutting-edge real-time models to give virtual characters authentic expression, personality, and realism. By bringing characters to life, the firm transforms storytelling, connection, and creative collaboration across digital platforms. Its flagship product, Cantina, powers an ecosystem of AI-driven experiences that enable creators and audiences to interact with richly animated personas. Cantina’s unique focus on real-time, expressive AI sets it apart as a leader in the emerging field of socially intelligent virtual characters.
Job Description
Cantina Labs is a social AI company developing advanced real-time models. We're looking for an Applied ML Engineer to build large-scale video generation models from data and training to distillation and acceleration.
Requirements
- 2+ years building and shipping ML systems
- Strong PyTorch + Python, comfortable touching both training and inference code
- Hands-on experience training or scaling generative models, ideally video generation
- Experience with distributed training and large runs
- Proven ability to improve performance in practice: latency/memory/cost optimizations, profiling, and shipping measurable wins
