Research Scientist, World Models

waabi.ai

Toronto, Canada
On-site
Generative and predictive world-modeling
Video generation and prediction
Multimodal foundation models
Waabi is the leader in Physical AI, unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis

Job Summary

  • Waabi is the leader in Physical AI, unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Matching Summary

Waabi is the leader in Physical AI, unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • generative and predictive world-modeling
  • video generation and prediction
  • multimodal foundation models
  • LLM / VLM / VLA methods
  • generative scenario modeling
  • large-scale distributed training

Nice-to-have

  • scientific rigor and rapid experimentation
  • emerging advances in generative AI
  • differentiable rendering
  • knowledge distillation/compression
  • robotics

Key Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field
  • Expert-level Python & PyTorch (or JAX) skills
  • Strong software-engineering fundamentals
  • Experience with distributed training
  • Built generative or predictive models of the physical world
  • Worked in a close-knit team of researchers and engineers

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