研究科学家，世界模型
Research Scientist, World Models
Waabi由人工智能愿景家Raquel Urtasun创立，是物理AI领域的领导者。凭借世界级的团队，我们正在通过技术开启自动驾驶运输的新时代，这些技术正在为商用自动驾驶卡车和机器人出租车提供动力。Waabi得到了人工智能、汽车、物流和深度科技领域领导企业的支持并与其合作。
在多伦多、旧金山、达拉斯和匹兹堡设有办公室，Waabi正在快速成长，寻找具有多样性、创新性和协作精神的候选人，希望以积极的方式影响世界。如需了解更多信息，请访问：www.waabi.ai
Waabi的自动驾驶系统由Waabi World驱动，旨在提供真实、可扩展、可控且高效的模拟。作为World Models的研究科学家，您将开发算法，并将下一代World Models投入生产，使其能够对复杂、动态的4D环境进行推理。该职位专注于大规模世界模型的时间推理和生成，包括视频模型、多模态生成模型、LLM/VLM/VLA模型以及交通参与者和场景的预测模型。您的工作将直接提升Waabi World建模未来演变、合成真实关键安全场景以及为下游规划、测试和训练提供丰富生成先验的能力。
您将…
在生成和预测世界建模方面开展基础和应用研究。
视频生成与预测。
潜在扩散/自回归/流匹配模型。
用于驾驶场景的多模态基础模型。
用于场景理解、推理和控制的LLM/VLM/VLA方法。
生成场景建模和可控模拟。
模型蒸馏。
与工程师合作，将模型集成到大规模分布式训练和渲染流程中。
在顶级会议（CVPR、ECCV、ICCV、NeurIPS、ICLR、ICRA、SIGGRAPH）上发表高影响力研究。
指导初级科学家和实习生；培养科学严谨性和快速实验的文化。
关注生成式AI、可微分渲染、知识蒸馏/压缩和机器人技术的最新进展。
资格要求：
技术创新能力：您拥有计算机视觉、机器学习、机器人学或相关领域的博士学位，或具备推动技术领域边界的等效研究经验。
强大的原型设计和实现能力：您具备高级的Python和PyTorch（或JAX）技能；扎实的软件工程基础和经验。
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Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai
Waabi’s autonomous-driving stack is powered by Waabi World, which aims to deliver realistic, scalable, controllable, and efficient simulation. As a Research Scientist in World Models, you will develop algorithms and productionize the next generation of World Models that can reason about complex, dynamic 4D environments.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-modelingVideo 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.
The US yearly salary range for this role is: $155,000 - $269,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi US Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.
Perks/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!
Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves. Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!
Waabi is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible workplace for all our employees. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.