Research Scientist, World Models
Quick Summary
- 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..
This role focuses on large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation, including video models, multimodal generative models, LLM/VLM/VLA models, and predictive models of traffic participants and scenes. Your work will directly power Waabi World’s ability to model future evolution, synthesize realistic safety-critical scenarios, and provide rich generative priors for downstream planning, testing, and training.
You will…
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 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.
Listing Details
- Posted
- March 27, 2026
- First seen
- March 27, 2026
- Last seen
- April 24, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 28
- Repost count
- 1
- Trust Level
- 32%
- Scored at
- April 25, 2026
Signal breakdown

Waabi is an AI company developing generative AI-powered autonomous driving technology for long-haul trucking, aiming for commercial deployment in 2025.
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