Runway

Member of Technical Staff, ML Platform

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8 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$240k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the evaluation platform end to end, including tooling and systems for generating, annotating, reviewing, and adapting model evaluations at scale.
  • Design CLIs, APIs, GUIs, and storage layers for a seamless and collaborative evaluation workflow.
  • Partner with research teams in video, image, audio, agents, and robotics to build and generalize evaluation capabilities.
  • Set standards for reproducibility, metric definitions, reporting formats, and trustworthy evaluation results.
  • Drive adoption and integration of the platform across training, production model serving, and broader research efforts.
  • Contribute to ML Platform tools and systems used to train and serve frontier models.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building ML infrastructure or data platforms in production, including experience with evaluation, experimentation, or benchmarking systems.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills, with hands-on experience running large-batch GPU workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Experience designing data pipelines and storage for large volumes of media or model outputs, including versioning and reproducibility.
  • Familiarity with experimental statistics, including paired comparisons, confidence intervals, multiple-comparison pitfalls, and inter-rater agreement.
  • Experience building internal tools end to end from the command line to the browser.
  • Ability to lead a broad technical area, gather requirements, set direction, make tradeoffs, and drive a roadmap.
  • Familiarity with the full model development lifecycle across data, training, evaluation, and serving.
  • Preferred experience building evaluation suites for generative models, LLM- or VLM-as-judge pipelines, online experimentation platforms, or evaluations for agents and robotics policies.
  • Ability to work independently with research teams, move quickly, and apply strong systems thinking to production reliability.

Benefits

  • The posting describes a comprehensive compensation package and an emphasis on pay equity, but does not provide a specific salary amount.
  • Employees have access to models, agents, GPUs, storage, and cloud services for building evaluation pipelines.
  • Runway is committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunity for employees from diverse backgrounds.
Runway

About Runway

501-1,000 employees

Runway builds generative video and multimodal AI tools—text-to-video, image-to-video, advanced video editing, and real-time agents—delivered via web apps and APIs for creators, studios, and enterprises. Its business model centers on subscriptions, usage-based credits, and licensing; notable releases include Gen-4.5, the GWM-1 world model, and a robotics SDK. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held.

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