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Sr. Research Engineer/Scientist (all levels), World Models
San Jose, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3 years of research experience.
- Education
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, or Machine Learning, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops data and training pipelines and advances interactive video-generation models for long-horizon world models with realistic dynamics and real-time interaction.
What you'll do
- Build large-scale, diverse, interactive multimodal data-generation pipelines.
- Develop training pipelines for long-context interactive video-generation models.
- Advance video-generation models in temporal consistency, physical dynamics, object interactions, and causal relationships.
What they ask for
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, or Machine Learning, or equivalent experience.
- 3 years of research experience in broad GenAI, multimodal foundation models, or Embodied AI.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate effectively with cross-functional research teams.
Nice to have
- Experience in video generation and synthesis, efficient and real-time diffusion models, 3D/physics-based simulation, or reinforcement learning for agentic environment interaction.
- First-author publications at venues including CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, and ICML.
Tools
GenAI, multimodal foundation models, Embodied AI, video generation, diffusion models, 3D/physics-based simulation, reinforcement learning
AI focus
Generative AI and multimodal world models, including interactive video generation, simulation-based and real-world multimodal data, and realistic long-horizon dynamics.
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