Production-Grade 3D ML Pipeline Engineer

World Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

World Labs is building a production-grade web application for 3D Gaussian Splat scene generation, editing, and publishing, and we’re seeking a Pipeline Engineer to integrate research features into reliable, debuggable, user-friendly tooling.

The role is high-ownership, fullstack-but-backend-heavy, spanning graphics/ML, backend services, and frontend UI—turning proof-of-concepts into shipped features used by real users.

Qualifications

• Strong Python proficiency with packaging, typing, debugging.
• Solid 3D graphics and computer vision fundamentals.
• Proven track record turning prototypes into production systems with CI/CD.
• Backend fundamentals: HTTP APIs, FastAPI, async, cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python proficiency

3D graphics concepts

Production-ready systems

Frontend adjacency

Tools

FastAPI

HTTP APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

CUDA / PyTorch

React concepts

CI/CD

Job description

World Labs is building a production-grade web application for 3D Gaussian Splat scene generation, editing, and publishing, and we’re seeking a Pipeline Engineer to integrate research features into reliable, debuggable, user-friendly tooling.

The role is high-ownership, fullstack-but-backend-heavy, spanning graphics/ML, backend services, and frontend UI—turning proof-of-concepts into shipped features used by real users.