Gen AI Innovation Specialist (Brahma)

DNEG Group; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AI innovation seeks a Gen AI Innovation Specialist to push the boundaries of audiovisual generative AI. The role involves evaluating cutting-edge technologies, prototyping implementations, and collaborating across projects. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in handling generative models and a solid understanding of ComfyUI, alongside the ability to engage with both technical and creative teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing large datasets and model tuning.
• Background in either RnD, creative role in VFX, or visual-driven tech.
• Ability to present research findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate GenAI technologies and workflows.
• Prototype implementations aligned with company requirements.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects.

Skills

Proficiency in ComfyUI

Experience testing and training generative models

Python knowledge

Understanding of training datasets

Research capabilities

Tools

Conda

Git

PyTorch

Job description

Brahma is a pioneering enterprise AI company developing Astras, AI-native products built to help enterprises and creators innovate at scale. Brahma enables teams to break creative bottlenecks, accelerate storytelling, and deliver standout content with speed and efficiency. Part of the DNEG Group, Brahma brings together Hollywood’s leading creative technologists, innovators in AI and Generative AI, and thought leaders in the ethical creation of AI content.

Gen AI Innovation specialists are experts in Audiovisual Generative AI with active engagement in its surrounding communities. They are responsible for identifying and evaluating cutting edge technologies and workflows, across both open and closed-source ecosystems, and independently prototyping POC implementations aligned with thecompany’s needs.

This team operates at the intersection of research and product/creative teams. Functioning as an applied extension of the research group, they follow research sprints serving as the first point of contact for implementing and testing in-house developments. While leveraging their domain expertise, and insights from product and creative collaborators, to offer the research department valuable context and well-informed proposals for potential new directions.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate cutting-edge GenAI technologies and workflows across open and closed-source.
• Prototype proof-of-concept implementations aligned with company needs.
• Act as the first point of contact for implementing and testing in-house research developments.
• Offer research teams valuable context and informed proposals by leveraging product and creative insights.
• Build scalable ComfyUI workflows and help maintain a shared, evolving ComfyUI environment.
• Work as part of a multi disciplinary team to deliver across projects and products.
• Clearly present research findings to developers and creatives, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and examples.

Must Haves

• Professional experience testing and training photoreal generative models, ideally with a focus on video applications.
• Comfortable setting up testing environments for model inference and training. Must be confident withConda, git, dependency management, and have enough Python/PyTorch knowledge to adapt code to specific requirements.
• Proven experience at effectively implementing existing tools and techniques into wider custom pipelines and workflows.
• Comfortable managing large training datasets. Deep understanding of the effects captioning, curating and enhancing them has on the trained model.
• Comfortable tweaking model tuning hyperparameters, with an understanding of the effects these have on the trained model.
• Experience collaborating with developers (research teams as a bonus).
• Very proficient in ComfyUI. Comfortable building scalable workflows, creating custom nodes where needed, and maintaining a shared, evolving ComfyUI environment.
• Deep engagement and awareness of the Gen AI communities and offerings, across both open andclosed-source spaces.
• Comfortable independently researching specific topics, gathering and clearly presenting findings to both developers and creatives - highlighting key strengths, weaknesses, backed by relevant examples.
• Comfortable onboarding and training artists from other disciplines to expand the wider Gen AI artist group.

Nice to Have

• Prior role in a research or RnD-focused environment.
• Professional background either as a creative or a developer in a visual field such as VFX, visual arts, or avisually-driven tech company.