Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents
Core
Designing the planning layer and tool-use behaviors for Canva's video agents to help users create generative video content from creative briefs.
Role type
Senior Research Engineer (Video Agents)
Builds
Agentic systems for video generation, editing, and storytelling within Canva's product.
Domain
Generative AI, Video Production, Multimodal Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM-powered system design, agent building (tool-use, planning, memory), Python, PyTorch, multimodal model evaluation, experimental design
Preferred skills
Creative tooling experience, diffusion/video generation familiarity, LLM-as-judge evaluation design, open-source agent work
Technologies
Python, PyTorch, modern agent frameworks
Responsibilities
Design planning layers for video agents, build and evaluate tool-use behaviors, manage context and memory for multi-turn sessions, drive evaluation flywheels, ship research prototypes to production
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC