Founding Machine Learning - World Models
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.
Skills
As published by ashby · 10 questions · 5 written answers
Basics
Name, Email, Resume, Location
Short answers (3)
- Phone
- LinkedIn URL optional
- GitHub URL (if relevant to role) optional
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- Are you legally authorized to work in [Country]? (Yes/No)
- Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship? (Yes/No)
Written answers (5)
- Tell us about the hardest technical problem you worked on for a long time. What made it hard, what did you try, what worked, and what were the results?
- Tell us about a time you taught yourself something difficult. What did you learn, why was it hard, how did you learn it, and how did you use it?
- Convince us you’re gritty. Use a specific example.
- Why are you interested in this role? We prefer authentic answers over polished but generic ones.
- If you have an open-source contribution, publication, writeup, demo, or project you’re proud of, feel free to share it here. If it was group work, tell us what you personally did.
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