Image Research Scientist - France

Jasper is the purpose-built generative AI platform for marketing. Our mission is to elevate marketers with the power of AI, to achieve better outcomes through their workflows and open up new business opportunities. Jasper securely trains on brand and strategy, accelerates content and campaign production, and helps Marketers measure and optimize performance as part of an end-to-end solution.  

Jasper has been recognized as "one of the Top 15 Most Innovative AI Companies of 2024" by Fast Company. We have nearly 100k marketing team users with a growing roster of Enterprise and Fortune 500 logos including: Morningstar, Anthropologie, Prudential, Cushman & Wakefield, Wayfair, and more. Our teams are building multi-modal AI and working with the top AI platforms. We were one of the first partners of both OpenAI and Anthropic. With the Clipdrop acquisition, Jasper is redefining visual marketing across all modalities, offering advanced image features like background replacement, image upscaling, product staging, and more to our customers. We are transforming how marketers create, innovate, and captivate audiences.

We value being customer-obsessed and helping each other achieve the best outcomes through collaboration. We’re not just building solutions, we’re creating experiences that captivate and amaze us. We strive to deliver moments of wonder and delight that enable our customers to be more effective and creative in ways they never thought possible. Learn more at jasper.ai.

About the Role

We're seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to push the boundaries of commercial image-editing applications. You will be at the forefront of developing state-of-the-art generative AI models while working with a talented team of researchers and engineers.

This role is open to candidates located in France. It will be a hybrid setup, which requires you to come into the office when necessary. The office is based at Station F in Paris, the vibrant hub of the French startup ecosystem.

Our efficient and lean team at Station F thrives on innovation and collaboration. In a dynamic and creative environment, we fully focus on visual applications, integrating AI to maximize its impact. This warm team is also a place where the diversity of personalities and talents is welcomed and valued.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the development of cutting-edge generative models for commercial image-editing applications

• Drive technical architecture decisions through systematic experimentation and rigorous analysis

• Collaborate with the applied research team to transform innovative ideas into production-ready solutions

• Keep actively track of the research literature and industry developments to help the team continuously develop SOTA algorithms

• Publish research at top conferences and contribute to open-source projects

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Machine Learning or M.Sc. with relevant industry experience

• Proven track record developing SOTA models, particularly diffusion models for foundational or application

• Demonstrated expertise in developing state-of-the-art generative models, particularly: Diffusion, VAE, GANs, Flow matching

• Experience evaluating and benchmarking image generation models

• Strong programming Python skills, including software engineering best practices to produce high-quality code

• Experience with distributed training and large-scale systems with PyTorch

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of PyTorch, including FSDP training techniques, low-precision training, and model parallelism

• Dataset curation expertise

• Demonstrated impact in the image generation field with a potentially proven track record of achieving significant results with first-authored publications in major conferences and journals such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS) of top journals (JMLR, IJCV, TPAMI)

What We Offer

• Flexible remote work options with an office in central Paris

• Competitive compensation package

Our Culture

We foster an inclusive environment where innovation thrives through collaboration and scientific rigor. While we have high standards, we value potential and enthusiasm. Candidates who don't meet all criteria but demonstrate exceptional strength in key areas are encouraged to apply.

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative at all job levels as we know the more inclusive we are, the better our product will be. We are committed to celebrating and supporting our differences and that diversity is essential to innovation and makes us better able to serve our customers. We hire people of all levels and backgrounds who are excited to learn and develop their skills. 

We are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

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