About the Role
Lightspeed Tech Center is an R&D department focused on exploring and discovering innovative technologies for high-quality games like PUBG Mobile. This role will research and implement advanced AI models for video generation and understanding, aiming for real-time interactive experiences and contributing to the development of next-generation gaming technologies.
Responsibilities
- Research model capabilities for understanding generated content, including semantics, objects, relationships, and spatial structures.
- Implement state tracking and consistency modeling for generated videos.
- Explore unified generation-understanding model architectures.
- Research causal consistency control and physical constraints for the action input to video output pipeline.
- Research hybrid architectures for low-latency feedback in real-time interactive generation.
- Collaborate with Agent/RL teams to drive an end-to-end loop of generation, understanding, control, and feedback.
- Validate controllable interactive capabilities in game scenarios and lead the establishment of evaluation systems.
- Continuously track industry-related work and formulate proprietary technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in AI-related fields (video understanding, video prediction, reinforcement learning, or multimodal generation and understanding).
- Deep understanding of video generation and VLM model mechanisms, including diffusion model principles.
- Research experience in interactive or controllable video generation.
- Ability to independently design complex model training pipelines with strong engineering skills.
- Proficient in Python/PyTorch.
- Experience with Game AI, simulation environments, or closed-loop systems is preferred.
- Relevant publications in top-tier conferences or journals are preferred.
Skills
- Video understanding
- Video prediction
- Reinforcement learning
- Multimodal generation and understanding
- Diffusion models
- Interactive video generation
- Controllable video generation
- Model training pipelines
- Engineering skills
- Python
- PyTorch
- Game AI
- Simulation environments
- Closed-loop systems
Experience Level
- Ph.D.
Education Level
- Ph.D.
About the Company
- Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life for people around the world.
- Business Unit LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is made up of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology.
- We are focused on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy them anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community.
- We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
