Founding Machine Learning - World Models
One Robot, San Francisco, California
- Pay
- $150K–$275K / year
- Work type
- Not stated
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- ML / AI engineering, Inference & ML systems
- Posted
- Apr 30, 2026
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About the role
We build world models that simulate manipulation scenes faithfully enough to validate, and one day, train policies without touching a robot. You'll develop generative models that make this work, with the controllability and physical fidelity to match real-robot behavior.
What you'll do:
- Train video and dynamics models: Develop world models with action conditioning for manipulation policies.
- Push long-horizon coherence: Develop architectures and training methods that extend rollout quality on hard physical tasks.
- Own training infrastructure: Run multi-GPU clusters, write custom CUDA, debug at scale.
- Build the world-model data engine: Design, implement, and improve a data engine that allows the world model to compound learning across customers and manipulation tasks.
Requirements:
- Very strong coding in Python and PyTorch (or similar).
- Video generation experience: Deep experience training image or video generation models end-to-end.
- Large-scale training: Track record operating training runs at cluster scale.
- 3D vision: Working knowledge of multi-view geometry, scene reconstruction, and physical priors.
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