Who we are

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune, one of the world’s most recognized creative brands, which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research, user-first design, and end-to-end execution from concept to final render to bring the future of expression to all.

The Team

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content-creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios, with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

Following the success of LTX-2, our widely adopted open-source text-to-audio+video model, we are expanding our efforts to develop cutting-edge audio+video generation models and are hiring Research Scientists to join our Model Evaluation team - part of LTX Foundational Model group.

The Model Evaluation team is the central nervous system of the LTX Foundation Model group. We don't just measure performance; we define what "good" looks like across a vast array of use cases. While we power the next generation of creative tools, LTX is also a foundational engine for simulation pipelines, game engines, synthetic data generation, architectural rendering, and digital avatars. We act as the critical bridge between raw research and industrial-grade reliability, building the benchmarks that ensure our models are world-class for both artists and engineers.

The Role

As a Research Scientist in Model Evaluation, you are the ultimate authority on model quality and utility. You will design the automated judges, reward models, evaluation datasets, and benchmarking ecosystems that determine the future of LTX. Your mission is to provide the "ground truth" for our pre-training and post-training teams. You will blend the rigor of a researcher with the intuition of a product-thinker, developing metrics that capture both the aesthetic soul of a video and the functional precision required for high-stakes professional use.

Key Responsibilities

• Steer Training & Research: Systematically evaluate model checkpoints to provide actionable insights that guide training experiments and architectural decisions.
• Design Benchmark Ecosystems: Develop and run rigorous benchmarks for release candidates against competitive models, ensuring LTX-2 remains world-class.
• Build Next-Gen Metrics: Develop robust automatic metrics and Reward Models (e.g., for RL, ITS, auto-research agents) that quantify complex attributes like temporal coherence, physical correctness, spatial accuracy, and foley synchronization.
• Diagnose & Analyze: Perform deep root-cause analysis on model failures, providing the diagnostic clarity needed for researchers to implement targeted fixes.
• Scale Evaluation: Collaborate with platform engineers to deploy evaluation frameworks across large-scale GPU clusters.

Ideal Candidate

• Technical Depth: Master’s or PhD in Computer Vision, ML, or a related field, with strong software engineering skills and comfort in complex ML training environments.
• The "Metric" Mindset: Deep expertise in evaluation methodology and statistical rigor. You know why standard metrics often fail and how to build better ones.
• Perceptual Intuition: A sharp "eye and ear" for quality. You can articulate subtle nuances in motion or sound that automated systems might miss and use that intuition to improve our reward models.
• Data-Driven Detective: You love diving into datasets to find the "why" behind the numbers, taking pride in curating and specializing data for specific evaluation tasks.
• Product-Minded Scientist: You can think like an end-user. You care that our models don't just "beat the benchmark" but actually work reliably in professional pipelines.
• Statistical Rigor: You understand experimental design, significance testing, and the nuances of perceptual quality assessment.

We got you covered

• We run daily door-to-door shuttles, offering Car-to-go subscriptions from several locations for several locations in central Israel, plus free parking and train-station pickups.
• We’re proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes, that Machneyuda!), plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office, filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.
• We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops, access and training on platforms, subscriptions, and clear guidelines for responsible AI use.

Who we are

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content-creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios, with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune, one of the world’s most recognized creative brands, which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research, user-first design, and end-to-end execution from concept to final render, to bring the future of expression to all.

The role 

Following the success of LTX-2, our widely adopted open-source text-to-audio+video model, we are expanding our efforts to develop cutting-edge audio+video generation models and are hiring Research Scientists to join our LTX-2 Core team.

At Lightricks, we’ve been at the forefront of innovation in text-to-image and text-to-audio+video generation, with LTX-2 driving our flagship product, LTX Studio, and gaining significant traction in the research and open-source communities, including integrations with platforms like ComfyUI and Diffusers.

This role focuses on pioneering model architecture and pre-training algorithms, shaping the next generation of our foundational generative AI models.

What you will be doing

• Pre-train and fine-tune video, audio, and image generative models to pursue state-of-the-art results.
• Publish papers and open source models to benefit the research community and advance the field.
• Design and implement machine learning models for text-to-audio and text-to-video generation.
• Collaborate with data engineers to curate and preprocess text and video data.
• Optimize models for high performance, ensuring efficient training and inference.
• Build new controls and capabilities into generative text-to-audio and text-to-video models.
• Stay updated with the latest developments in Generative AI, particularly in the fields of image, video, and audio.
• Work closely with product teams to integrate AI models into applications and services.
• Conduct experiments and prototype new concepts to advance the capabilities of our AI tools.

Your skills and experience

• Track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in generative AI, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first-author publications or projects.
• Excellence in engineering as well as research with strong programming skills in Python, and deep familiarity with machine learning frameworks.
• Experience in training large diffusion transformer models from scratch.
• Proven track record of handling large-scale datasets to train neural networks effectively.
• PhD or equivalent experience in the field of generative AI - a plus.

We got you covered

• We run daily door-to-door shuttles, offering Car-to-go subscriptions from several locations in central Israel, plus free parking and train-station pickups.
• We’re proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes, that Machneyuda!), plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office, filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.
• We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops, access and training on platforms, subscriptions, and clear guidelines for responsible AI use.
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Who we are

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune, one of the world’s most recognized creative brands, which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research, user-first design, and end-to-end execution from concept to final render to bring the future of expression to all.

The role

We are seeking a researcher to join the LTX Model Applications team, focusing on advancing and extending the capabilities of our LTX-Video models. You will design and explore new use cases, train novel ways to control the generation process, and push the boundaries of generative video technology. Your work will directly influence millions of users through our apps and contribute to the broader research and open-source communities, shaping the next generation of creative tools.

What you will be doing

• Advance and extend the capabilities of our LTX-Video models through new controls, features, and use cases.
• Design and implement machine learning models for video, image, and audio generation, as well as multimodal applications.
• Conduct experiments, prototype concepts, and validate ideas to expand generative video technology.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to translate research into impactful product features.
• Regularly open-source code, models, and research insights, contributing to the academic and open-source communities.
• Stay at the forefront of generative AI research in video, image, and audio, and bring relevant advances into our products.
• Write high-quality, efficient code and maintain best practices in research workflows.
• Mentor other researchers and lead collaborative projects.

Your skills and experience

• M.Sc. in computer science or a related field; Ph.D. preferred.
• Strong background in generative AI, with familiarity in video and image generation and processing.
• Demonstrated ability to originate ideas and drive projects from concept to implementation.
• Familiarity with the latest research in generative AI and motivation to stay at the cutting edge.
• Independent, proactive, and collaborative, with strong communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Publications in relevant fields.
• Experience writing production-grade algorithms with a focus on efficiency and runtime.
• Familiarity with audio generation.

We got you covered!

We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops, access and training on platforms, subscriptions, and clear guidelines for responsible AI use.

We offer Car-to-go subscriptions and run daily door-to-door shuttles from several locations in central Israel, plus free parking and train-station pickups.

We’re proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes, that Machneyuda!), plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office, filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content-creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios, with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune, one of the world’s most recognized creative brands, which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research, user-first design, and end-to-end execution from concept to final render to bring the future of expression to all.

Team & role

The Core Generative AI team at Lightricks Research is a unified group of researchers and engineers dedicated to developing our generative foundational models that serve LTX Studio, our AI-based video creation platform. Our focus is on creating a controllable, cutting-edge video generative model by merging cutting-edge algorithms with exceptional engineering. This involves enhancing machine learning components within our sophisticated internal training framework, crucial for developing advanced models. We specialize in both research and engineering that enable efficient and scalable training and inference, allowing us to deliver state-of-the-art AI-generated video models.

As a Large Scale Video Understanding Research Scientist, you will play a key role in improving video generation quality and efficiency by improving video and audio understanding pipelines used for both training data construction and model evaluation.. This role demands hands-on work with large-scale Video Language Models (VLLMs), including fine-tuning, post-training, and control, alongside implementing classic computer vision and signal processing algorithms and applying strong research skills. Your expertise in post-training and controlling large scale foundational models, understanding statistics, implementing complex systems and eliminating bugs will be crucial, as our video training sets consist of petabytes of data processed across hundreds to thousands of virtual machines.

What you will be doing

• Fine-tune and control VLLMs for video and audio understanding.
• Design algorithms for balancing, filtering, and curating training and evaluation datasets, informed by model behavior and failure modes.
• Implement classic and modern algorithms for processing, clustering, evaluation and filtering of large scale datasets.
• Work within high-performance, scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data, with attention to throughput, correctness, and reproducibility..
• Collaborate with other researchers and product stakeholders to iteratively improve training sets and evaluation protocols through tight feedback loops driven by model performance. 

Your skills and experience

• Experience training, fine-tuning, or post-training large-scale VLLMs or multimodal foundation models.
• Strong software engineering skills, proficient in Jax or PyTorch.
• Ability to develop and implement computer vision models for data filtering and evaluation.
• Understanding of relevant topics in statistics, clustering.
• Enjoys delving into system implementations to enhance performance and maintainability.

This role is designed for individuals who are not only technically proficient but also deeply passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and machine learning through innovative engineering and collaborative research.

Why Join Us:

We’re here to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and video - not for the buzz, but for the craft, the challenge, and the chance to make something genuinely new.

We believe in an environment where people are encouraged to think, create and explore. Real impact happens when people are empowered to experiment, evolve, and elevate together.

At Lightricks, every breakthrough starts with great people and a collaborative mindset. If you're looking for a place that combines deep tech, creative energy, and zero buzzword culture, you might be in the right place.

We got you covered

• We run daily door-to-door shuttles, offering Car-to-go subscriptions from several locations for several locations in central Israel, plus free parking and train-station pickups.
• We’re proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes, that Machneyuda!), plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office, filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.
• We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops, access and training on platforms, subscriptions, and clear guidelines for responsible AI use.