Waabi

Research Engineer, World Models

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5 months ago
Remote, Americas +3 moreSenior

Base Salary

$155k - $269k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and scale generative and predictive world-modeling systems for video, multimodal driving scenes, traffic participants, and controllable simulation.
  • Develop latent diffusion, autoregressive, flow-matching, model-distillation, and LLM/VLM/VLA-based methods for scene understanding, reasoning, and control.
  • Translate research prototypes into robust, large-scale distributed training and inference pipelines in collaboration with Research Scientists.
  • Optimize model training and inference for efficiency, speed, and reliability on large-scale datasets.
  • Build data pipelines for high-quality model-training datasets.
  • Maintain the quality, stability, and maintainability of the world-model codebase and infrastructure.
  • Track advances in generative AI, distributed systems, and efficient model deployment in robotics.

Requirements

  • Strong Python and PyTorch or JAX skills, software-engineering fundamentals, and extensive experience with distributed training and large-scale model deployment.
  • Master's degree in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience in model development and scaling.
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying generative or predictive models of the physical world for robust, efficient, real-world applications.
  • Experience working closely with research scientists and engineers in collaborative, fast-paced teams.
  • Preferred experience with large-scale ML training infrastructure and tooling such as cloud platforms, Kubeflow, or Ray.
  • Preferred experience with efficient model serving and deployment using ONNX or TensorRT.
  • Publications or research at leading ML, computer vision, or robotics conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, or NeurIPS are a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, equity awards, and an annual performance bonus.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • Flexible hours and work-from-home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals when working in the office.
  • Regular on-site, off-site, and virtual team-building activities and social events.

Tech Stack

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