Hybrid Research Scientist, World Models

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About the role

  • Research Scientist focusing on developing algorithms and productionizing World Models at Waabi. Join a startup pioneering autonomous transportation technology with a world-class team.

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).
  • Mentor junior scientists and interns; foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation.
  • Stay on top of emerging advances in generative AI, differentiable rendering, knowledge distillation/compression, and robotics.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated 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.
  • Bonus:
  • Proven ability to translate research into production-quality code and measurable product impact.
  • Demonstrated publications (first-author) in top-tier venues on topics such as world models, generative simulation, video prediction, diffusion, flow-matching, or foundation models for autonomy.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
  • As we grow, this list continues to evolve!

Job title

Research Scientist, World Models

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$155,000 - $269,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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