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Waabi

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Mar 27, 2026
Salary
$155,000–$269,000 a year
Full-time

Research Scientist, World Models

Job description

Waabi — Research Scientist, World Models (San Francisco, California · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Remote OK)).

Job responsibilities

  • Conduct fundamental and applied research in generative and predictive world-modeling Video generation and prediction.
  • Latent diffusion / autoregressive / flow-matching models.
  • Multimodal foundation models for driving scenes.
  • LLM / VLM / VLA methods for scene understanding, reasoning, and control.
  • Generative scenario modeling and controllable simulation.
  • Model distillation.
  • Collaborate with engineers to integrate models into large-scale, distributed training and rendering pipelines.
  • Publish high-impact research at top conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, SIGGRAPH).

Job requirements

  • D emonstrated technical innovation: You have a Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field or equivalent research experience pushing the boundaries of a technical field..
  • Strong prototyping and implementation: You have expert-level Python & PyTorch (or JAX) skills; strong software-engineering fundamentals and experience with distributed training.
  • Expert domain knowledge: You have built generative or predictive models of the physical world with scale and efficiency in mind for real-world applications
  • Team player: You have worked in a close-knit team of researchers and engineers and have strong communication to deliver successful projects.

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