Runway

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.<h2>About the role</h2>*Open to hiring remote across the US — we also have offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv.Runway is rapidly building the leading ecosystem of generative models, bringing the best models from AI labs around the world to our users alongside our own. We are looking for an IC to source, activate, and scale relationships across Runway's growing portfolio of model partners. This is a role for someone who wants to own whatever needs owning, take new models from first conversation to launch, and write the playbook where none exists yet. You will work closely across Engineering, Product, Legal, Finance, and Marketing.<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Own a broad portfolio of model partners end to end, across modalities</li><li>Track the model landscape relentlessly: spot new labs and releases early and bring the strongest ones to the team as candidates for integration</li><li>Take new partners from zero to launched: source, structure and negotiate commercial terms, then close with Legal and Finance</li><li>Be the partner's main point of contact through launch, working closely with our engineering team</li><li>Build deep, trusted relationships with founders, BD leads and research teams at our partners, and turn those relationships into early access, better terms and joint launches</li><li>Run the portfolio with rigor: set check-in cadences, monitor relationship health, and spot and escalate risk early</li><li>Track usage, spend and margin by partner and model, and use that data to decide where to invest, renegotiate or step back</li><li>Partner with Marketing and our partners on co-marketing for model launches</li><li>Build the frameworks and tools that let the function scale as the ecosystem grows</li></ul><h2>What you'll need</h2><ul><li>5+ years of experience across some combination of partnerships, business development, GTM, consulting, or founding/operating, with a track record of having owned outcomes end to end</li><li>Experience negotiating commercial agreements, ideally usage-based, API or platform deals</li><li>Genuine obsession with generative AI: you know the labs, you try new models the day they ship, and you have opinions on what makes one good</li><li>Demonstrated range: you've done the deal and the integration and the launch</li><li>High technical aptitude for understanding complex technologies, tools, systems, and issues</li><li>Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to turn usage and spend data into a clear recommendation</li><li>Ability to manage many relationships and priorities at once in a fast-paced environment without dropping threads</li><li>Clear, concise communication, from a startup founder to a big-lab partnerships team to a Runway engineer in the same day</li><li>A strong bias towards action and belief that no task is too small for you</li><li>Highly resourceful, with the ability to create structure and work autonomously amid ambiguity</li><li>New York-based preferred</li></ul>Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.<h3>Working at Runway</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&amp;ab_channel=Runway">Great things come from great teams.</a> We’d love to hear from you.We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.More about Runway<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html">Universal World Simulator</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1">GWM-1</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5">Gen-4.5</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models">General World Models</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section">Robotics SDK</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section">Conversational Real-time Agents</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/studios">Runway Studios</a></li></ul>We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023">Crain's</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny">InHerSight</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work">BuiltIn NYC</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024">INC</a>

Member of Strategic Staff, Model Ecosystem

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.<h2>About the role</h2>*Open to hiring remote across the US — we also have offices in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.We are looking for a Prototype Researcher to join Runway Labs — our research and exploration team pushing the frontier of AI video and General World Models. You’ll imagine, design, and build experimental experiences that make emerging AI capabilities tangible and communicate a compelling vision for where the technology is heading.This role combines creative thinking, hands-on prototyping, and storytelling. You should be able to develop an original idea, build a working prototype, and shape it into a clear, memorable demonstration. Your work will help people understand new AI systems through experiences they can see, use, and engage with.Working closely with researchers, engineers, and designers, you’ll explore new interfaces and interaction paradigms for AI-generated video, world models, and agentic systems. The focus is on research explorations that express our vision, reveal new possibilities, and strengthen Runway’s position as a full-stack research organization.We’re looking for a motivated self-starter with strong creative judgment, technical fluency, and a portfolio that shows both what you can build and how well you can communicate an idea.<h2>What you’ll do</h2><ul><li>Develop original concepts that explore the possibilities of emerging AI systems, from interactive video and world models to agentic experiences.</li><li>Design and build working prototypes that turn research capabilities into engaging, understandable experiences.</li><li>Shape each project’s story: what it explores, why it matters, and what it suggests about the future.</li><li>Package explorations into polished demos, films, and interactive experiences that communicate our research and vision.</li><li>Collaborate with researchers and engineers to understand new capabilities and identify compelling ways to demonstrate them.</li><li>Move quickly through experimentation, using prototypes to test ideas and refine both the experience and its narrative.</li></ul><h2>What you’ll need</h2><ul><li>A portfolio of original projects that demonstrates creative thinking, design craft, technical execution, and strong storytelling.</li><li>The ability to take an idea from an early concept to a working prototype and a compelling presentation.</li><li>Hands-on experience building interactive experiences with code, with the judgment to choose the right tools for each experiment.</li><li>Strong visual and interaction design skills, with an eye for detail and an instinct for making complex ideas accessible.</li><li>Genuine curiosity about AI video, world models, agentic systems, and emerging generative media.</li><li>Comfort working in ambiguous research environments, defining your own direction, and learning new tools as the work evolves.</li><li>The ability to explain the purpose and potential of your work clearly, through writing, visuals, demos, or film.</li></ul>Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.<h3>Working at Runway</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&amp;ab_channel=Runway">Great things come from great teams.</a> We’d love to hear from you.We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.More about Runway<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html">Universal World Simulator</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1">GWM-1</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5">Gen-4.5</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models">General World Models</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section">Robotics SDK</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section">Conversational Real-time Agents</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/studios">Runway Studios</a></li></ul>We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023">Crain's</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny">InHerSight</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work">BuiltIn NYC</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024">INC</a>

Prototype Researcher

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.<h2>About the role</h2>We're looking for an ML infrastructure engineer to own model evaluation at Runway, end to end. Every decision we make about a model – which checkpoint to keep training, what to ship to millions of users, which datamix and architecture shows the most promise – rests on evals. Today that work is spread across the organization. You'll turn it into one platform.Your job will be to design and build the systems that generate samples at scale, score them with automated metrics and human annotations, track results across checkpoints and releases, and put the answers in front of researchers in minutes rather than days. You'll define what "better" means operationally – how we measure it, how confident we are, and how a result becomes a ship/no-ship decision.You'll be embedded within research teams as a member of ML Platform, and you'll set the technical direction for evals across the company. This is an extremely high-leverage role: the quality of our models is bounded by how well we can measure them.<h2>A peek at our technical stack</h2>Our inference and training code is written in Python (PyTorch) and is cloud-native. We leverage multiple clouds and use a combination of Kubernetes native and home-grown tooling for efficient job orchestration.We’re big users of agentic development and operations. We have a robust internal platform and provide broad access to the latest models and harnesses.You’ll have access to best-in-class models, agents, GPUs, storage and cloud services you need to drive a world class evaluation pipeline that helps us deliver frontier models.<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Own the evaluation platform end to end: the tooling and systems required to generate, annotate, review and adapt at frontier scale</li><li>Define the CLIs, APIs, GUIs and storage layers required to make this process seamless, fast, sophisticated and collaborative</li><li>Work directly with research teams on video, image, audio, agents, and robotics to understand what they need to measure and build it, then generalize the result into the platform</li><li>Help set the standards for how we evaluate models at Runway: reproducibility, metric definitions, reporting formats, and when a result is trustworthy enough to act on</li><li>Support broad adoption of the platform and its integration throughout Runway’s research efforts across training, production model serving and more</li><li>Contribute broadly as a member of the ML Platform team to tools and systems that help Runway train and serve frontier models</li></ul><h2>What you'll need</h2><ul><li>5+ years of experience building ML infrastructure or data platforms in production environments, with at least some of that time spent on evaluation, experimentation, or benchmarking systems</li><li>Strong Python and PyTorch, and hands-on experience running large batch GPU workloads on Kubernetes</li><li>Experience designing data pipelines and storage for large volumes of media or model outputs, with attention to versioning and reproducibility</li><li>Familiarity with experimental statistics: paired comparisons, confidence intervals, multiple-comparison pitfalls, inter-rater agreement</li><li>Comfort building internal tools end to end, from the command line to the browser</li><li>Ability to lead a broad technical area: gather requirements from many teams, set direction, make tradeoffs, and drive a roadmap without waiting to be told</li><li>Familiarity with the full model development lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, serving</li><li>Self-starter who can work embedded with research teams and move fast</li><li>Strong systems thinking and pragmatic approach to production reliability</li><li>Humility and open mindedness; at Runway we love to learn from one another</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Track record of building evaluation suites for generative models</li><li>Hands-on work with LLM- or VLM-as-judge pipelines</li><li>Experience with online experimentation platforms and connecting offline metrics to product outcomes</li><li>Prior work evaluating agents or robotics policies</li></ul>Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.<h3>Working at Runway</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&amp;ab_channel=Runway">Great things come from great teams.</a> We’d love to hear from you.We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.More about Runway<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html">Universal World Simulator</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1">GWM-1</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5">Gen-4.5</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models">General World Models</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section">Robotics SDK</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section">Conversational Real-time Agents</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/studios">Runway Studios</a></li></ul>We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023">Crain's</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny">InHerSight</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work">BuiltIn NYC</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024">INC</a>

Member of Technical Staff, ML Platform

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.<h2>About the role</h2>Preferable to have someone near an office in NYC or San Francisco, but open to hiring around the world for the right candidate.Runway Creative is an all-in-one platform giving creators and businesses endless ways to generate and edit video, images, and audio. Our user base spans across professional creatives, as well as business owners and enterprise marketing and merchandising teams that come to Runway to generate videos, ads and other content to promote their products and services.We're hiring for a Senior Product Manager to build agent products. You’ll own new product development end-to-end, from customer and technical discovery, to product shaping and viability, to quality and feedback loops that make these products better. You’ll work at the frontier of agentic product development, shaping how Runway Agents help our customers grow their businesses.<h2>What you’ll do</h2><ul><li>Represent the customer: develop deep understanding of creative and marketing workflows through frequent customer engagement; synthesize findings on agent performance and behavior, and lead a team with clarity and conviction.</li><li>Lead Agent Development: run user interviews, competitive research, eval analysis, and prompt experimentation. Shape your findings into new product offerings that solve customer problems in new and novel ways.</li><li>Own agent quality: create eval infrastructure, monitor regressions, and ensure that agents improves with every release.</li><li>Shape the scope: scope ruthlessly to deliver exceptional user value on a fast paced release.</li><li>Ship, hands-on. ship your own PRs to improve the product experience. You'll be in the details daily and shipping regularly.</li><li>Create compelling launch moments: enable sales, support, and marketing with the context they need to communicate new agent capabilities effectively</li></ul><h2>What you’ll need</h2><ul><li>8+ years in the software industry, with direct ownership of an AI or LLM powered product in a product management or engineering leadership role. A track record of moving revenue and adoption metrics, not just shipping features.</li><li>You thrive in an environment with rapid pace and a high accountability culture. You move very fast, make decisions with incomplete information, and instinctively gravitate towards shipping today, not writing docs for tomorrow.</li><li>Hands-on experience building and shipping agent-products - you understand tool use, planning loops, multi-step reasoning, and how and why agents fail. You have deep familiarity with prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication. You can make a sharp, written argument and tell a compelling launch story. You confidently assess the state of the business, call out challenges and articulate your plans to solve them.</li></ul>Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.<h3>Working at Runway</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&amp;ab_channel=Runway">Great things come from great teams.</a> We’d love to hear from you.We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.More about Runway<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html">Universal World Simulator</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1">GWM-1</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5">Gen-4.5</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models">General World Models</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section">Robotics SDK</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section">Conversational Real-time Agents</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/studios">Runway Studios</a></li></ul>We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023">Crain's</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny">InHerSight</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work">BuiltIn NYC</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024">INC</a>

Member of Product Staff, Agents

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.<h2>About the role</h2>*Open to candidates based near our NYC office or those willing to relocate.Building general world models — systems that understand and simulate reality across tasks, modalities, and domains — requires closing the loop between learned representations and real-world action. We're looking for a Robotics Engineer to bring our video-native foundation models onto real hardware: deploying world-model-based policies on real robots and making them work in the real world.You will work across the full stack of robot learning — from data collection and task design, to policy deployment, to physical evaluation. This is a hands-on, execution-oriented role at the intersection of foundation models, learned robot policies, and hardware. You'll bring deep robotics domain expertise and help us ship world-model-based robot policies end-to-end, with applications ranging from manipulation to mobile robotics.<h2>What you’ll do</h2><ul><li>Own the deployment loop for learned policies (VLAs, diffusion policies, World Action Models) on real robot arms: inference serving, action decoding, controller integration, latency budgets, and safety limits</li><li>Diagnose real-world policy failures — determining whether the problem is data coverage, camera/proprioception mismatch, or execution — and partner with the research team to fix it at the right layer</li><li>Design demonstration data collection protocols (task setup, camera placement, teleop conventions) that produce data our world models can actually learn from — working with our existing teleop and lab infrastructure</li><li>Partner with research to run controlled experiments connecting world model representations, data composition, and fine-tuning recipes to physical success rates</li><li>Define and run physical evaluation protocols so results are trustworthy and comparable across policy iterations</li><li>Adapt our policy recipe to partner hardware and new embodiments</li></ul><h2>What you’ll need</h2><ul><li>You have personally deployed software on real robot hardware and iterated to make it work — whether learned policies, motion planning, classical control, or perception-driven manipulation. You can walk through a specific system you shipped, what broke on the physical robot that didn't break in sim or testing, and how you fixed it.</li><li>Fluency in the software-to-robot interface: action/command spaces, control frequencies, observation pipelines, calibration, and how each affects real-world behavior</li><li>Comfort working at the intersection of software and physical systems: you can reconfigure a robot workspace and trace a policy failure in the same afternoon</li><li>Bonus: direct experience deploying learned policies (VLAs, diffusion policies) on real hardware; experience with video/multimodal generative models or world models</li></ul>Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.<h3>Working at Runway</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&amp;ab_channel=Runway">Great things come from great teams.</a> We’d love to hear from you.We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.More about Runway<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html">Universal World Simulator</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1">GWM-1</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5">Gen-4.5</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models">General World Models</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section">Robotics SDK</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section">Conversational Real-time Agents</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://runwayml.com/studios">Runway Studios</a></li></ul>We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023">Crain's</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny">InHerSight</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work">BuiltIn NYC</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ugc" href="https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024">INC</a>

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