About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to own Developer Infrastructure at World Labs.

This is a high impact systems role focused on build systems, testing infrastructure, and release and rollout pipelines, the critical path that determines how code moves from local development to production.

You will define and operate the systems that make our engineering organization fast, reliable, and scalable, in an environment where both the codebase and workloads are evolving quickly.

You will be responsible for the architecture and operation of the systems that power developer velocity and production safety, making foundational decisions around build performance, dependency structure, test execution, and release reliability.

This role is about turning complex, failure prone workflows into systems that are fast, correct, and reproducible, and setting the technical direction for how we build and ship software.

This is a hands on role. You will design, build, and operate these systems directly.

What You Will Do:

• Own the design and evolution of the build, test, and release systems that power the platform.
• Define architecture for a Bazel based monorepo, including performance, caching, and dependency graph scalability.
• Improve build performance and correctness, including incremental builds, caching strategies, and graph optimization.
• Design and operate test infrastructure, focusing on reliability, isolation, and signal quality.
• Build and improve release and rollout systems, including deployment pipelines, canarying, and rollback.
• Improve end to end developer velocity, from local iteration to production deployment.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across the pipeline, including build failures, dependency issues, test flakiness, and release regressions.
• Establish standards for reproducibility, observability, and operability across build and release systems.
• Identify and eliminate systemic failure modes across the development lifecycle.
• Contribute broadly across infrastructure and reliability work when needed.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design and technical decision making.

Key Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of experience building and operating production systems at scale, with ownership of critical infrastructure.
• Strong experience with build systems and dependency graphs such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, or similar, or the ability to quickly ramp on Bazel in a large monorepo environment.
• Experience designing and improving build, test, and release pipelines, with a focus on performance, correctness, and reproducibility.
• Strong systems understanding of how code moves from source to build to test to production.
• Hands on experience debugging complex system issues, including build failures, dependency issues, test flakiness, and release regressions.
• Experience owning systems with strict reliability and performance requirements.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust, with a strong preference for Python
• Comfort working across languages in a polyglot codebase.
• Proven ability to define architecture and drive technical decisions end to end.
• Strong judgment in balancing developer velocity, system complexity, and reliability.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast moving environments with high ownership.
• You have worked on systems where build performance, correctness, and reproducibility were first order concerns, not afterthoughts.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep experience with Bazel at scale, including remote caching, remote execution, and build graph optimization.
• Experience designing hermetic and reproducible build systems.
• Experience improving test infrastructure at scale, including eliminating flakiness and improving signal quality.
• Experience building or operating release and rollout systems, including canarying, staged rollouts, and rollback mechanisms.
• Experience instrumenting systems for observability and debugging of build, test, and release pipelines.
• Experience in early stage or high growth environments.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds. We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Research Platform Engineer to build the mission-critical systems that research at World Labs depends on.This is a senior engineer whose work lives at the seam between research and platform. Your ownership is technical and concrete — the systems you design, the performance you unlock, the distributed infrastructure you operate, and the outcomes those systems produce. You will sit on either our research or platform org depending on where your strengths fit best, and the work happens across the seam between them. We want systems depth paired with a product engineer's instincts for research iteration speed and developer experience.

This is a hands-on role. You will design, build, and ship code directly.

What You Will Do:

Design and build training infrastructure, data infrastructure, and data processing and sourcing pipelines. Productionize models for serving and own parts of the inference stack.Build internal tools and services that increase engineering and research velocity.Debug hard problems across training, inference, and performance — including distributed systems issues under real research workloads.Optimize throughput, latency, GPU utilization, and system-level scaling.Improve research iteration speed and developer experience — cut debugging time, raise reliability, and make it faster for researchers to ship experiments. Raise the engineering bar across research and platform code alike.

Key Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems, with demonstrated ownership of infrastructure used by other engineers or researchers.
• Strong depth in at least one of: ML infrastructure, distributed training or inference systems, data systems, or research tooling.
• Strong distributed systems foundations — concurrency, consistency tradeoffs, replication, failure modes, and scaling behavior under real workloads.
• Strong performance optimization skills across at least one of: training throughput, inference latency, GPU utilization, or system-level scaling.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with the ability to work in C++, CUDA, Rust, or Go as the work demands.
• Experience working directly with ML researchers or research engineers, including productionizing research code.
• A product engineer's instincts for iteration speed and developer experience — applied to the systems researchers use every day.
• Strong judgment about what to build and what to leave alone, particularly when research requirements are ambiguous or shifting.
• High-ownership mindset; you measure yourself by outcomes shipped, not by tickets closed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an AI lab or ML-native company, working on systems used directly by researchers.
• Experience with large-scale training or inference systems — GPU orchestration, distributed training, or high-throughput inference.
• Experience with low-level performance optimization — profiling, kernel-level tuning, memory and bandwidth optimization, distributed communication primitives.
• Experience building developer experience tooling for research — notebooks, experiment tracking, reproducibility infrastructure.
• Experience in early-stage or high-growth environments where scope and priorities shift frequently.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are looking for a talented Research Scientist with a strong background in generative modeling, particularly diffusion models, to join our modeling team. This role is ideal for candidates with deep expertise in diffusion models applied to images, videos, or 3D assets and scenes.

While not required, experience in one or more of the following areas is a strong plus:

• Large-scale model training
• Data curation for pretraining or post-training
• Tokenizers and VAEs for image, video, or 3D data
• Long-context architectures
• 3D vision

You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and product teams to bring advanced 3D modeling and machine learning techniques into real-world applications, ensuring that our technology remains at the forefront of visual innovation. This role involves significant hands-on research and engineering work, driving projects from conceptualization through to production deployment.

What You Will Do: 

• Design, implement, and train large-scale diffusion models for generating 3D worlds
• Develop and experiment with large-scale diffusion models to add novel control signals, adapt to target aesthetic preferences, or distill for efficient inference
• Collaborate closely with research and product teams to understand and translate product requirements into effective technical roadmaps.
• Contribute hands-on to all stages of model development including data curation, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
• Continuously explore and integrate cutting-edge research in diffusion and generative AI more broadly
• Act as a key technical resource within the team, mentoring colleagues, and driving best practices in generative modeling and ML engineering

Key Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in generative modeling or applied ML roles, ideally at a startup or other fast-paced research environment
• Extensive experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, especially in the context of diffusion models and other generative models
• Deep expertise in at least one area of generative modeling: pre-training, post-training, diffusion distillation, fine-tuning with new conditioning signals, etc for diffusion models
• Strong history of publications or open-source contributions involving large-scale diffusion models
• Strong coding proficiency in Python and experience with GPU-accelerated computing.
• Ability to engage effectively with researchers and cross-functional teams, clearly translating complex technical ideas into actionable tasks and outcomes.
• Comfortable operating within a dynamic startup environment with high levels of ambiguity, ownership, and innovation.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Contributions to open-source projects in the fields of computer vision, graphics, or ML.
• Familiarity with large-scale training infrastructure (e.g., multi-node GPU clusters, distributed training environments).
• Experience integrating machine learning models into production environments.
• Led or been involved with the development or training of large-scale, state-of-the-art generative models
  
  

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world - then World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating.We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the database and storage foundation of World Labs.

This is a high-impact systems role at the intersection of databases, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure. You will define how core data systems are designed, scaled, and operated in an environment where workloads are evolving quickly and requirements are often ambiguous.

You will be responsible for the architecture and operation of the transactional backbone of the platform, making foundational decisions around data modeling, replication, consistency, and performance.

This role is about turning complex, failure-prone systems into ones that are simple, reliable, and predictable — and setting the technical direction for how we build and operate them.

What You Will Do:

• Own the design and evolution of the transactional systems that power the platform
• Define architecture for database and storage systems under high-throughput, low-latency workloads
• Make and drive decisions around data modeling, indexing, replication, and consistency
• Debug and resolve complex production issues, including contention, replication behavior, and performance bottlenecks
• Establish standards for reliability, observability, and operability across the platform
• Partner with product and research teams to support evolving and often ambiguous requirements
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and cost across the system
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design and technical decision-making

Key Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale, with ownership of critical infrastructure
• Strong experience designing and operating transactional systems and databases (Spanner, Postgres, MySQL, or similar)
• Deep understanding of data modeling, indexing, transactions, concurrency, and consistency tradeoffs
• Experience owning systems with strict reliability and performance requirements in production
• Strong experience debugging complex production issues and reasoning about failure modes
• Experience designing distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure where tradeoffs are non-trivial
• Proven ability to define architecture and drive technical decisions end-to-end
• Strong judgment in balancing performance, reliability, and cost
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high ownership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with database internals, storage systems, or query engines
• Experience building infrastructure for AI/ML systems or data platforms
• Experience in early-stage or high-growth environments

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.
  
  

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Real-time Graphics Engineer who can develop efficient, scalable end-to-end rendering solutions for 3D/4D generated worlds. You should have deep expertise in real-time rendering, strong coding skills and 3D math, and an understanding of all the layers of computing from the 3D application down to the hardware it runs on. In this role you’ll help develop our open source renderer Spark, expanding its feature set and scalability to enhance the capabilities of our products and the possibilities for our users. You’ll also work closely with product engineering and our research team to bring cutting-edge AI research to life in real-world applications. All in all, you’re a player coach and a strong engineer who is passionate to drive product development.

What You Will Do:

• Develop real-time graphics solutions for rendering 3D worlds using web and native graphics technologies
• Work closely with product engineering to help develop products for generating and manipulating 3D content
• Explore rendering technologies with our research scientists to advance the capabilities of 3D generative AI
• Support and accelerate the adoption of our open source rendering libraries such as Spark

Key Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of real-time graphics, including strong 3D graphics fundamentals, shader programming, the modern graphics API stack, efficiently utilizing GPU hardware (both desktop and mobile), code execution at the machine instruction level, and modern system memory hierarchies.
• Strong track record in developing and shipping successful products.
• 6+ years of engineering experience and proven ability to operate effectively in startup environments as an early-stage engineer or founder, demonstrating adaptability and ownership.
• Experience in building user-focused web applications.
• Proficiency in modern web application technologies for frontend (e.g. Javascript, WebGL, and WebGPU) and a strong understanding of web architecture.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a strong foundation in computer science principles.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, impactful solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong familiarity with 3D Gaussian splatting and Level-of-Detail rendering techniques
• Experience with 3D graphics web frameworks such as Three.js and using it to build applications around 3D data is particularly valuable.
• Experience working with generative AI, machine learning, neural rendering, etc.
• Contributions to open-source graphics or machine learning projects.
• Experience building real-time collaborative tools and applications.
• Experience working in VFX, gaming, 3D design, or other industries that focus on high-fidelity visual outputs.

Who You Are:

• Player coach: We are looking for strong product engineers who have played pivotal roles in successful product development and launch cycles.
• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world - then World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds. We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer who thrives at the intersection of product and engineering. You should have strong coding skills across the stack, a deep appreciation for intuitive user experiences, and the technical expertise to design end-to-end systems. In this role, you’ll own product features end-to-end—from ideation through to building responsive, user-centric web apps and backend services. Serving as a "player-coach," you will act as the engineering counterpart to product management to help with technical roadmapping and sprint execution. You will bring crucial software engineering and technical leadership experience to support a highly talented product team that currently leans heavily on design.

What You Will Do:

• Partner directly with product leadership on technical roadmapping, sprint planning, and execution.
• Serve as a Technical Lead and mentor (player-coach) to support a cross-functional product team.
• Contribute technically as a full-stack engineer to both the frontend and backend of our core web applications.
• Develop and ship user-facing features with a highly product-minded approach, moving beyond just building internal tools or libraries.
  
  

Key Qualifications:

• 4-10 years of software engineering experience, demonstrating adaptability and ownership.
• Deep proficiency in modern web application technologies for the frontend (e.g., TypeScript, React) and backend services, with a strong understanding of web architecture; especially in interactive and real-time applications with performance considerations.
• Proven experience serving in a Tech Lead or senior mentorship capacity for engineering and design teams.
• A highly product-minded approach with a strong drive to design end-to-end systems and ship features.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a strong foundation in computer science principles.

Preferred Qualifications:

While not required, experience in one or more of the following is a strong plus:

• Experience in 3D graphics programming and shader development, particularly web frameworks such as WebGL and three.js.
• Experience building applications around generative image, video, or 3D AI models.
• Contributions to open-source graphics or machine learning projects.
• Experience working in VFX, gaming, 3D design, or other industries that focus on high-fidelity visual outputs.

Who You Are

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a SLAM Specialist to design, implement, and advance state-of-the-art simultaneous localization and mapping systems that enable accurate, robust spatial understanding from real-world sensor data. This role is focused on modern SLAM techniques—both classical and learning-based—with an emphasis on scalable state estimation, sensor fusion, and long-term mapping in complex, dynamic environments.

This is a hands-on, research-driven role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and probabilistic inference. You’ll collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and systems teams to translate cutting-edge SLAM ideas into production-ready capabilities that form the backbone of our world modeling stack.

What You Will Do:

• Design and implement modern SLAM systems for real-world environments, including visual, visual-inertial, lidar, or multi-sensor configurations.
• Develop robust localization and mapping pipelines, including pose estimation, map management, loop closure, and global optimization.
• Research and prototype learning-based or hybrid SLAM approaches that combine classical geometry with modern machine learning methods.
• Build and maintain scalable state estimation frameworks, including factor graph optimization, filtering, and smoothing techniques.
• Develop sensor fusion strategies that integrate cameras, IMUs, depth sensors, lidar, or other modalities to improve robustness and accuracy.
• Analyze failure modes in real-world SLAM deployments (e.g., perceptual aliasing, dynamic scenes, drift) and design principled solutions.
• Create evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics to measure SLAM accuracy, robustness, and performance across large datasets.
• Optimize performance across the stack, including real-time constraints, memory usage, and compute efficiency, for large-scale and production systems.
• Collaborate with reconstruction, simulation, and infrastructure teams to ensure SLAM outputs integrate cleanly with downstream world modeling and rendering pipelines.
• Contribute to technical direction by proposing new research ideas, mentoring teammates, and helping define best practices for localization and mapping across the organization.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience working on SLAM, state estimation, robotics perception, or related areas.
• Strong foundation in probabilistic estimation, optimization, and geometric vision (e.g., bundle adjustment, factor graphs, Kalman filtering).
• Deep experience with one or more SLAM paradigms (visual, visual-inertial, lidar, multi-sensor, or hybrid systems).
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++, with hands-on experience building research or production-grade SLAM systems.
• Experience with numerical optimization libraries and/or robotics frameworks.
• Familiarity with learning-based perception or representation learning and how it can augment classical SLAM pipelines.
• Strong understanding of real-world sensor characteristics, calibration, synchronization, and noise modeling.
• Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and drive projects from concept through deployment.
• A strong sense of ownership and engineering rigor: you care deeply about correctness, stability, and measurable improvements.
• Enjoy collaborating with a small, high-caliber team and raising the technical bar through thoughtful design, experimentation, and code quality.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Tech Lead for 3D Modeling & Reconstruction to set technical direction and drive execution for our core 3D modeling efforts. This role is ideal for someone with a strong research science (RS) or research engineering (RE) background who has made meaningful contributions to the field of 3D reconstruction and/or modeling—through academic publications, widely used open-source projects, or production systems deployed at scale.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with the ability to guide a high-impact team, shaping both the research roadmap and the production systems that bring modern 3D modeling methods into real-world products. You’ll work closely with research, engineering, and product partners to translate cutting-edge ideas into reliable, scalable capabilities.

What You Will Do:

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for 3D modeling and reconstruction, balancing research exploration with product-driven milestones.
• Lead the design and implementation of state-of-the-art 3D modeling systems, spanning geometry, appearance, and scene-level representations.
• Drive innovation in modern 3D modeling approaches, including learning-based and optimization-based methods, with an eye toward robustness, scalability, and real-world data.
• Guide architectural decisions around 3D representations, training pipelines, and inference systems, ensuring they integrate cleanly with broader 3D data and rendering platforms.
• Lead and mentor a small team of research scientists and/or research engineers: providing technical guidance, setting high standards, and fostering a culture of rigor and ownership.
• Own end-to-end execution of key initiatives, from early research prototypes through production deployment and iteration.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to align 3D modeling capabilities with product needs, timelines, and quality bars.
• Represent the team and its work internally and externally, including contributing to publications, technical talks, or open-source efforts where appropriate.
• Continuously evaluate emerging research and industry trends in 3D modeling and reconstruction, and translate the most promising ideas into actionable plans.

Key Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in 3D reconstruction, 3D modeling, computer vision, graphics, or closely related fields.
• A strong track record of impactful contributions to the field, demonstrated through academic publications, influential open-source work, or widely deployed industry products.
• Deep expertise in modern 3D modeling and reconstruction methods, including representation design, optimization strategies, and learning-based approaches.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring a small team, lab, or project group, with responsibility for technical direction and delivery.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, with experience building both research prototypes and production-quality systems.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks and large-scale experimentation or training pipelines.
• Solid understanding of how 3D modeling systems interface with data pipelines, rendering, and downstream applications.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, making high-leverage technical decisions with incomplete information.
• High ownership mindset and a product-aware perspective: you care not just about novelty, but about reliability, performance, and impact.
• Enjoy collaborating with senior peers across research and engineering, and raising the technical bar through example, mentorship, and clear technical communication.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a 3D Reconstruction Specialist to develop and advance state-of-the-art methods for reconstructing high-quality 3D geometry and appearance from real-world data. This role is focused on modern reconstruction techniques—both feed-forward and optimization-based—with an emphasis on novel representations, robust optimization, and scalable training and inference pipelines.

This is a hands-on, research-driven role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning. You’ll collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to translate cutting-edge reconstruction ideas into production-ready systems that power core product capabilities.

What You Will Do:

• Design and implement modern 3D reconstruction systems, including feed-forward and optimization-based approaches for geometry, appearance, and scene understanding.
• Research, prototype, and productionize advanced 3D representations (e.g., implicit functions, point-based or volumetric methods, hybrid representations) with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and improve optimization pipelines for multi-view reconstruction, including camera pose estimation, joint geometry/appearance optimization, and robust loss formulations.
• Build end-to-end training and evaluation workflows for 3D reconstruction models, from data preparation and supervision strategies to large-scale experiments and metrics.
• Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to ensure reconstruction methods integrate cleanly with existing 3D data pipelines, rendering systems, and downstream applications.
• Analyze failure modes and data quality issues in real-world reconstruction scenarios, and design principled solutions to improve robustness and generalization.
• Optimize performance across the stack, including memory usage, training speed, and inference latency, to support large-scale datasets and production constraints.
• Contribute to technical direction by proposing new research ideas, mentoring teammates, and helping set best practices for 3D reconstruction across the organization.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience working on 3D reconstruction, multi-view geometry, or related areas in computer vision, graphics, or machine learning.
• Strong foundation in modern 3D reconstruction techniques, including feed-forward neural methods or optimization-based approaches.
• Deep experience with 3D representations and their tradeoffs (e.g., implicit fields, point-based methods, meshes, volumes) or with large-scale optimization pipelines for reconstruction.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++, with hands-on experience building research or production systems.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and numerical optimization tools.
• Familiarity with rendering, differentiable rendering, or graphics pipelines, and how they interact with reconstruction systems.
• Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and drive projects from concept through deployment.
• A strong sense of ownership and scientific rigor: you care deeply about correctness, reproducibility, and measurable improvements.
• Enjoy collaborating with a small, high-caliber team and raising the technical bar through thoughtful design, experimentation, and code quality.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds. We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a research engineer to help improve our in-house world models through better multimodal data. This role is about figuring out what data actually moves model quality — then building the datasets, pipelines, and experiments to prove it. The best generative models aren’t just a product of model architecture and compute, they are a product of the training data. The model output reflects someone’s obsession over what goes into the data, how it’s processed, and what gets thrown away. We’re looking for the person who does the obsessing and builds the tools to act on it at scale. This isn’t a role where someone hands you a dataset and asks you to clean it. You will decide what data we need, figure out where to get it, build the processing and curation systems, and close the loop with model training to make sure it actually works. You will need strong engineering skills to do this well, but engineering serves your judgement about data, not the other way around.

What You’ll Do:

• Discover, evaluate, and acquire training data. You will find, evaluate, and integrate data from diverse sources. You will write scrapers, work with APIs, and make judgement calls about whether a source is worth pursuing before investing days of effort.
• Build data processing and curation systems. Design and implement data processing pipelines for filtering, deduplication, quality scoring, and curation. You will create well-abstracted systems that your teammates can pick up and extend.
• Look at the actual data constantly. You will sampling outputs, spotting distributional issues (e.g., too many screenshots, low-resolution crops, near-duplicates), and catch problems before they propagate to model training.
• Close the data → model → evaluation loop. You will diagnose model failures and trace them back to data issues, then design principled fixes to nip the problem in the bud.
• Deploy ML models for data enrichment. captioning, quality scoring, text embedding, segmentation, classification etc. You will evaluate whether these models actually help.
• Make systematic, documented decisions. Score thresholds, filtering criteria, mixture ratios — every processing choice should be reproducible, versioned, and auditable. You will set the standard for rigor on the team.

Questions We Think About:

• How do you sample data for large scale world models, where the best practices for dense frame video models don’t apply?
• How do you caption large scale video datasets for world generation?
• How do you measure the diversity of video datasets, where counting the raw number of hours or frames doesn’t account for variation in content?
• How do we build data pipelines that are reproducible and robust?
• How can we improve the observability of billion-scale datasets so we can catch issues early?
• What does it mean for a dataset to have a good “taste”? How do you operationalize aesthetic judgement at a billion scale?
• How do you decide whether to filter aggressively for quality versus preserve diversity and coverage? Where’s the line, and how do you find it empirically?
• How do you strike the balance between pre-processing data and computing things on the fly? One locks you into design decisions, while the other can bottleneck training throughout.
  
  

Most of these questions don’t have clean answers. We want someone who thinks about them seriously.

What We Require:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write well-abstracted, readable code and build reusable tools with clear interfaces. You find messy, undocumented systems personally unacceptable, because you've been burned by the alternative.
• Deep experience with image and video data at scale. You know the data formats, the processing libraries (OpenCV, PIL, FFmpeg, PyAV), and you have hard-won intuition for what goes wrong when you're processing billions of samples.
• Experience with distributed computing. You've used frameworks like Apache Beam, Spark, Kubernetes, or Ray to process datasets that don't fit on a single machine.
• Experience using ML models as components. You’ve built and run inference pipelines (e.g., filtering, scoring, captioning, and embedding) at billion scale, and evaluated whether they actually improved outcomes.
• A research-oriented approach to data decisions. You design experiments to validate processing choices rather than guessing. You can articulate why a filtering step exists and show evidence that it helps.
• Familiarity with the model training lifecycle. You understand how data composition affects model behavior and can reason about what changes to try and can articulate why.
  
  

An overall obsession for the data-model-evaluation loop. You have demonstrated a track record of being obsessed with curating the best possible data to improve model performances and to prove that via rigorous evaluation, over and over again. You have a special knack that turns this obsession into successful data and model work.

What We’d Love To See:

• Familiarity with columnar and large-scale data storage formats and libraries (PyArrow, Lance, Vortex, DeepMind Bagz, or similar). You have strong opinions (but loosely held) about when to use what.
• Track record of independently discovering and integrating new data sources into a training pipeline, not just processing what was handed to you.
• Direct experience closing the data → model quality loop: you diagnosed a model issue, traced it to the data, fixed it at the source, and measured the improvement.
• Strong visual intuition for data quality and diversity. You can scroll through samples and quickly spot systematic problems.
• You build tools and libraries, not just scripts. When you solve a problem, you think about how to make sure the problem is repeated by someone else.
  
  

What This Isn’t:

To help you self-select:

• Not infrastructure. We have a separate team for data storage, data loading, and pipeline throughput. You need to write code that works at scale, but your focus is on what data to use and how to process it, not on the bare metal infrastructure.
• Not pure research. You’ll read papers and run experiments, but you’ll also write production-quality pipelines that need to work reliably.
• Not a role where you wait for instructions. We need someone who will independently identify data problems and opportunities, propose solutions, and execute.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are building a production-grade web application for 3D Gaussian Splat scene generation, editing, and publishing, and we’re looking for a Pipeline Engineer to help integrate cutting-edge research features and make them reliable, debuggable, and delightful to use.

This is a high-ownership, fullstack-but-backend-heavy role that sits between R&D and frontend. You will work end-to-end across graphics/ML algorithms, backend services, and frontend UI — turning proof-of-concepts into shipped features that users can rely on. The ideal candidate enjoys making complex, messy systems work smoothly in production and improving them continuously based on both internal testing and external user feedback.

Key Responsibilities

• Bridge research and product by working closely with both graphics/computer vision researchers and frontend engineers to ship usable features.
• Turn standalone Python scripts into clean, production-ready systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and tooling that expose complex 3D workflows in a reliable and scalable way.
• Assist in integrations across the 3D ecosystem, including asset import/export and format conversion with common DCC tools.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• You have a strong pipeline mindset, with experience turning scripts into production systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• You enjoy building tools and infrastructure that enable others, and you take pride in making complex systems understandable and usable.
• You have fluency in the 3D ecosystem, including familiarity with 3D algorithms, DCC tools and common 3D file formats, sufficient to design integrations and debug workflow issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python, including packaging, typing, tooling, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Strong literacy in core 3D graphics and computer vision concepts, such as transforms, cameras, coordinate systems, rendering, and visual artifact debugging.
• Demonstrated experience taking prototypes to production, including refactoring, testing, CI/CD, versioned artifacts, and reproducibility.
• Solid backend fundamentals, including HTTP APIs, FastAPI (or similar frameworks), async/concurrency basics, cloud deployment, and service reliability.

Strongly Preferred / Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, or Gaussian splat rendering pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with DCC tools such as Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unreal, or Unity.
• Familiarity with the GPU stack (CUDA, PyTorch), batch/queue systems, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Frontend adjacency, with comfort collaborating on React-based parameter plumbing and UX for technical controls.
• Experience with production pipelines at VFX, animation, or gaming studios.
• A production support mindset, including willingness to iterate on documentation, tutorials, and error messages to improve usability and reduce misuse.

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Packaging ML and 3D Python pipelines into GPU-backed FastAPI services with request validation, reproducible outputs, and well-defined request/response schemas.
• Designing parameter schemas and defaults that map cleanly from frontend controls to backend APIs and internal pipeline configurations.
• Integrating import/export workflows with popular DCC tools (e.g., Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unity, Unreal, USD), identifying workflow friction, and producing lightweight documentation, tutorials, and example code/scripts to help users succeed.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world - then World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a 3D Data Pipeline Engineer to design, build, and operate the core systems that enable high-quality 3D data processing, synthetic data generation, and rendering across our products. This is a hands-on role for someone who is passionate about large-scale 3D data, system performance, and delivering reliable data pipelines to power our product features.

You’ll work closely with product engineers, 3D artists, and research scientists to design efficient, robust, and scalable data pipeline capabilities—while keeping data integrity and performance high in a fast-moving startup environment.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and operate automated pipelines for 3D data ingestion, cleaning, processing, validation, and delivery that sit on the critical path for model training.
• Own foundational capabilities for synthetic data generation, including developing tools, workflows, and quality metrics to produce high-fidelity training data at scale.
• Develop and optimize high-performance rendering systems and services for real-time visualization and asset generation.
• Architect and operate distributed data systems for handling massive volumes of 3D models, textures, and associated metadata, ensuring data consistency and robust failure recovery.
• Own data quality and production readiness end-to-end: defining data schemas, implementing quality checks, capacity planning, observability, and continuous improvement for the 3D pipeline.
• Improve developer and researcher velocity by building shared abstractions, tooling, and guardrails that reduce the operational and cognitive load of working with 3D assets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate the 3D data pipeline with other core product platforms and services.
• Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the data engineering bar across the product org with a focus on 3D data.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines, especially with a focus on 3D, graphics, or simulation data, with deep experience designing scalable, distributed services in production.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, and a solid foundation in data engineering principles and distributed systems architecture.
• Hands-on experience with 3D data processing libraries, game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal), or rendering APIs (e.g., OpenGL, Vulkan).
• Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing solutions (e.g., Kubernetes, distributed file systems, data warehouses).
• Experience working in fast-moving or startup environments, ideally having led systems or products from early design through production and growth.
• A high bar for ownership and execution: you’re comfortable with ambiguity, take responsibility for outcomes, and drive work forward without waiting for perfect clarity.
• A product-first mindset: you care about data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance as core product features, not afterthoughts.
• Enjoy collaborating with a small, high-ownership team and raising the quality bar through code, data design, and example.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Technical Recruiter / Research Talent Sourcer to join World Labs and help us build a world-class research and engineering team. In this role, you will own and scale our technical recruiting and sourcing systems, with a particular focus on identifying and engaging top-tier AI researchers and engineers from leading universities and industry labs.

This is a highly operational, systems-driven role that also demands creativity, intuition, and deep curiosity about the AI research ecosystem. You will work closely with founders, research leaders, and hiring managers to translate ambitious research goals into exceptional hires.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and continuously improve recruiting and sourcing systems, processes, and tooling with an emphasis on rigor, accuracy, and scalability
• Proactively source researchers and engineers from top universities, AI labs, and leading technology companies across ML, robotics, computer vision, and related fields
• Maintain exceptionally high-quality candidate data, pipelines, and documentation across ATS and internal tracking systems
• Develop creative sourcing strategies using publications, citations, open-source work, conference participation, academic networks, and referrals
• Partner closely with research and engineering leaders to deeply understand technical needs, evolving skill requirements, and long-term talent strategy
• Own candidate experience end-to-end, ensuring thoughtful, timely, and highly professional communication
• Analyze recruiting metrics and pipeline data to identify gaps, improve efficiency, and inform hiring decisions
• Support interview coordination and hiring operations as needed to keep processes running smoothly and predictably
  
  

Key Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in technical recruiting or sourcing, with a strong focus on AI, ML, robotics, or adjacent deep-tech domains
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain highly organized recruiting systems and processes
• Strong data discipline: comfortable working with pipelines, metrics, and structured tracking to drive decisions
• Solid understanding of the AI research landscape, including top universities, labs, conferences, and industry research teams
• Experience sourcing passive, highly competitive candidates
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications:

While not required, experience in one or more of the following is a strong plus:

• Recruiting or sourcing for research-heavy organizations or frontier AI labs
• Familiarity with academic research signals (publications, citations, arXiv, conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, RSS, etc.)
• Experience hiring PhD-level researchers or highly specialized engineers
• Background in startup environments or early-stage team building
• Experience with advanced sourcing tools, automation, or custom workflows

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

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