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Research Lead

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Job

  • Level
    Lead
  • Job Feld
    Data, Project
  • Anstellung
    Vollzeit
  • Vertragsart
    Unbefristetes Dienstverhältnis
  • Ort
    Wien
  • Arbeitsmodell
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Zusammenfassung

    In dieser Position führst du ein Team von Forschungsscientists, setzt die Forschungsstrategie zu KI-Modellen um und sorgst dafür, dass Forschungsergebnisse in nutzbare Produkte führen. Du evaluierst innovative Lösungen, coachst das Team und repräsentierst die Ergebnisse in der AI

    Deine Rolle im Team

    • You will lead and grow a team of high-performing research scientists who are advancing the future of AI at scale.
    • Your focus will be on setting strategic research direction, coaching others to deliver impactful scientific contributions, and ensuring the translation of research into meaningful product capabilities.
    • You’ll champion both scientific excellence and scalable impact, bridging foundational model innovation with real-world deployment across Canva’s platform.
    • This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is passionate about cultivating talent, shaping a research vision, and partnering cross-functionally to embed cutting-edge AI into delightful user experiences.
    • Coaching and mentoring a high-performing team of research scientists and machine learning engineers.
    • Owning the evaluation strategy - Design and run robust evaluation frameworks—quality, safety, red-teaming, competitive benchmarking—to guarantee enterprise readiness and user delight at scale.
    • Setting research strategy in alignment with Canva’s AI and product goals.
    • Guiding technical direction across foundational model development, experimentation, and evaluation.
    • Partnering cross-functionally to ensure research translates into product impact.
    • Representing Canva in the global AI community through publications, talks, or open-source contributions.

    Unsere Erwartungen an dich

    Qualifikationen

    • Have led research or applied science teams, with a strong track record of coaching and impact.
    • Possess deep, hands-on expertise in training and evaluating generative models (Diffusion, GANs, VAEs, LLMs).
    • Excel at creating data-driven evaluation methodologies, turning user analytics into clear, actionable insights.
    • Bring strategic thinking and scientific rigour to project direction and problem solving.
    • Thrive in collaborative environments and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Stay current with research trends and are energised by continuous learning.

    Erfahrung

    • Possess expert knowledge and experience with GANs, Diffusion Models, VAEs, and Autoregressive Models.

    Benefits

    Gesundheit, Fitness & Fun

    Work-Life-Integration

    Essen & Trinken

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    Job Standorte

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    • Standort Wien

      Standort Wien

      Ungargasse 37

      1030 Wien

      Österreich

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    Canva Austria GmbH.

    Canva Austria GmbH.

    Wien

    Empowering the world to design by Visual AI: By making complicated tech simple, Kaleido strives to enable individuals and businesses of all sizes to benefit from the recent advances in visual AI. Our tools simplify and accelerate workflows, foster creativity, and enable others to create new products. Since 2021, we are part of Canva. Our mission at Kaleido as part of Canva is to empower the world to design and since Canva launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 100 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

    Description

  • Unternehmensgröße
    50-249 Employees
  • Gründungsjahr
    2018
  • Sprachen
    Englisch
  • Unternehmenstyp
    Startup
  • Arbeitsmodell
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Branche
    Internet, IT, Telekom
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    Research Lead

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    Wien
    Arbeitsmodell
    Hybrid, Onsite

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