AI Research Scientist (World Models)

Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

Company

hirify.global is building unified general intelligence capable of generating, understanding, and operating within the physical world through multimodal vision-based models.

What you will do

• Invent next-generation world-model architectures using diffusion, transformer, or autoregressive approaches.
• Develop controllability mechanisms such as action and view conditioning to enable agent interaction.
• Define and own key metrics including physical fidelity, long-horizon coherence, and action-following.
• Conduct large-scale scaling studies to optimize compute, data, and architectural performance.
• Publish research at top venues and contribute to open-source model releases.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent research record in ML, computer vision, robotics, or a related field.
• Deep expertise in large-scale generative modeling, self-supervised representation learning, or model-based RL.
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch and experience with large-scale training on multi-node clusters.
• Proven research record with top-venue publications or widely used open-source releases.

Nice to have

• Prior work on world models, neural simulation, or 4D scene representations.
• Experience applying generative models to downstream embodied tasks like planning and control.
• Enthusiasm for open-sourcing frontier models.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the center of a core research thesis on embodied AI.
• Broad, open-ended research environment rather than narrow, well-scoped tasks.
• Direct impact on industry-leading generative video models.
• Commitment to open-source contributions and frontier research.