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Research Scientist - World Model

United States; Singapore, SF Bay Area Employment contract 250000.00 - 450000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 09, 2026
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This is the role at the center of the thesis. Luma already trains the strongest generative video models in the industry; the next step is turning those models into world models — interactive, controllable, physically faithful, and useful as a substrate for embodied reasoning. As a Research Scientist on the World Models team, you'll work on the next generation of generative models that can be rolled out as worlds.

Job Responsibility

  • Invent next-generation world model architectures — diffusion, transformer, autoregressive, or hybrid — with a particular focus on controllability and physical consistency
  • Develop controllability mechanisms that let an agent step into the world: action conditioning, view conditioning, long-horizon rollouts
  • Define and own the metrics: physical fidelity, long-horizon coherence, action-following, and downstream usefulness for policy training
  • Run scaling studies that tell us where compute, data, and architecture pay off
  • Publish at the frontier
  • contribute to the open-source release that is the long-term deliverable

Requirements

  • PhD or equivalent research record in ML, computer vision, robotics, or related fields
  • Deep expertise in at least one of: large-scale generative modeling (video/3D/world), self-supervised representation learning, model-based RL
  • Strong PyTorch and large-scale training experience — you've trained models that hit the limits of a multi-node cluster
  • A research record the field knows (top-venue publications and/or widely-used open releases)

Nice to have

  • Prior work on world models, model-based RL, generative video, neural simulation, or 4D scene representations
  • Experience using generative models for downstream embodied tasks (planning, control, evaluation)
  • Excitement about open-sourcing frontier models
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