Research Scientist, World Models

What you'll do

• Research and build video, multimodal, and predictive models for driving scenes and controllable simulation.
• Integrate models into distributed training and rendering pipelines with engineering teams.
• Publish research and mentor junior scientists and interns.

What they ask for

• Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.
• Expert-level Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills, strong software-engineering fundamentals, and distributed-training experience.
• Experience building scalable and efficient generative or predictive models of the physical world for real-world applications.
• Strong communication and experience collaborating with researchers and engineers.

Nice to have

• Ability to translate research into production-quality code with measurable product impact.
• First-author publications in top-tier venues on relevant topics.

Pay

$155,000 - $269,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, PyTorch, JAX

AI focus

Research and productionize world models, including video generation and prediction, latent diffusion, autoregressive and flow-matching models, multimodal foundation models, LLM/VLM/VLA methods, scenario modeling, and model distillation.