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  • Senior HR Business Partner

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$325K

    Senior HR Business Partner San Francisco 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 The Senior HR Business Partner will serve as a strategic advisor to functional leaders across technical and non-technical teams. This role is responsible for driving organizational effectiveness, supporting high-performance standards, and guiding leaders through complex people decisions. This foundational role will help build the HRBP function from the ground up: establishing core management toolkits, strengthening org design rigor, advising on performance and flight risk, and acting as connective tissue between leaders and the broader People team. You'll help ensure we scale with intentionality, high performance, and sound judgment, while laying the groundwork for future org growth. You'll be a true partner to the founding team and business leads - not an administrator. You'll help us organize and scale the company, give direct feedback to managers, steer important people decisions, and build the infrastructure that lets everyone do the

  • Research Platform Engineer

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$300K

    Research Platform Engineer San Francisco 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

  • Software Engineer (Real-time Graphics)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$300K

    Software Engineer (Real-time Graphics) San Francisco 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

  • Software Engineer (Developer Infrastructure)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$300K

    Software Engineer (Developer Infrastructure) San Francisco 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.

  • Staff Platform Engineer (Databases & Storage)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$300K

    Staff Platform Engineer (Databases & Storage) San Francisco 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

  • Research Engineer (Scaling Multimodal Data)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $200K-$325K

    Research Engineer (Scaling Multimodal Data) San Francisco 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

  • Technical Recruiter

    San Francisco

    unspecified $180K-$225K

    Technical Recruiter San Francisco 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

  • Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $250K-$350K

    Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM) San Francisco 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,

  • Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $250K-$350K

    Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead) San Francisco 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

  • Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Reconstruction)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $250K-$350K

    Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Reconstruction) San Francisco 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

  • Pipeline Engineer (Graphics/3D)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $13K-$13K

    Pipeline Engineer (Graphics/3D) San Francisco 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

  • Senior Product Engineer

    San Francisco

    unspecified $250K-$325K

    Senior Product Engineer San Francisco 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

  • Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)

    San Francisco

    unspecified $250K-$325K

    Research Scientist (Generative Modeling) San Francisco 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