- 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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