Staff Applied Scientist

✨ About us ✨

Photoroom was launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years. Our mission is clear: to create the best visuals for your commerce.

Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-the-world background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.

Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 200 million times, Photoroom is now the world's #1 AI photo-editing app, available across mobile, web, and via an API in over 180 countries.

We are at an exciting stage of our journey. Having successfully raised our Series B, we are looking to scale to $150M ARR in 2025.

Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 80 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world's best companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.

We are currently looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who can harness their experience to build, develop, and improve world-class image models for our products. This is a leadership position, to get the means and the team to have a clear impact on the life of millions of people. We’re walking an already proven path commercially, but there is much to do still and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a dent in the tech universe.

At Photoroom, we use ML to provide stunning images to millions of users. We develop our own models using the latest Research and tools to shape the future of generative AI for images. The field is changing fast, and what was unimaginable a few years back is the new norm, with more to come. This is trickling down to everyday users through building a great and accessible product, across many dimensions and modalities.

TL;DR

🇪🇺 We are flexible: you can work from anywhere in Europe, come once a month to Paris (fully reimbursed), or come to the office more often.

✈️ We offer substantial support for relocation (10k€ signing bonus), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure.

💻 Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc.

🏖️ Socials - Quarterly company retreats, weekly Happy Hour & Game Time

🇬🇧 PhotoRoom is an international team and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English & French).

✨ About the role ✨

• You will be part of a growing team of around 10 people, working alongside great talent from various backgrounds and contributing to world-class results in the ML space.

• You will lead sizable research efforts, from data volume (100M filtered sample scale) to compute resources (256 H100s on tap, possible overflow), leading to models which serve billions of requests a year.

• You will pre-train diffusion foundational models, possibly image backbones or decoders, you will be instrumental in a range of efforts and orchestrate research at the SOTA level.

• You will collaborate and partner with other Applied Scientists to work on new features and applications.

• Your strong Research background will be a huge asset to the team, helping us evaluate and identify the ML trends we want to follow. You will grow the team around you and communicate publicly on your research.

✨ About you ✨

• Relevant candidates usually have more than 7 years of experience and a PhD in Machine Learning

• Several years of experience working with deep learning and/or foundation models (whether from industry or academia)

• You have been leading a Research lab or being one of the main contributor on a large scale core training team

• You have extensive expertise in the latest libraries, frameworks, and tools in ML.

✨ Hiring Process ✨

• Screening call with the Head of AI and talent manager

• Home technical assignment, followed by a review with the team (can be compensated and under 3h)

• Culture fit interview and meet the team!

• Reference check & Offer

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at the workplace. We believe both the company and its culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

That's why:

- We have flexible working hours

- We trust people to work remotely

- We extended the length of the parental leave

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.