Senior Data Scientist refactoring Python optimization algorithms and developing pricing models. Solving supply - chain challenges for Tiger Analytics’ retail and CPG analytics clients.
About the role
- Research Scientist focusing on developing algorithms and productionizing World Models at Waabi. Join a startup pioneering autonomous transportation technology with a world-class team.
Responsibilities
- Conduct fundamental and applied research in generative and predictive world-modeling
- Video 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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!
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