Robotics World Models Research Engineer

Dynamic Creatures; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamic Creatures builds interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality. The company seeks a hands-on researcher or engineer to develop visual world models that help robots understand their surroundings, anticipate how situations evolve, and use predictions to guide behaviour.

The role focuses on learning from images, video and robot interaction data, exploring representations of the physical world, predictive and action-conditioned models, and the link between visual

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience in world models, video representation learning, predictive modelling or closely related robot-learning research.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills, with personal ownership of model training and evaluation.
• A strong foundation in computer vision, deep learning and temporal or sequential modelling.
• Evidence of rigorous experimentation: clear baselines, meaningful evaluations, and an ability to explain what worked, what failed and why.

Responsibilities

• Build and evaluate visual world models that capture scene dynamics, object interactions and the effects of robot actions.
• Develop models and representations from video and robot data, including self-supervised learning and action-conditioned prediction where appropriate.
• Connect learned representations and predictions to planning, policy learning and robot behaviour in collaboration with robotics and controls engineers.
• Own experiments from data collection and curation through model training, evaluation and validation on physical systems.
• Design evaluations that test predictive accuracy, generalisation, robustness and usefulness for downstream robot tasks.
• Investigate failures, improve data and models, and address inference latency and compute constraints.

Skills

World models and video representations

Python

PyTorch

Computer vision

Temporal modelling

Experimentation & analysis

Tools

PyTorch

Self-supervised learning

Job description

Dynamic Creatures builds interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality. The company seeks a hands-on researcher or engineer to develop visual world models that help robots understand their surroundings, anticipate how situations evolve, and use predictions to guide behaviour.

The role focuses on learning from images, video and robot interaction data, exploring representations of the physical world, predictive and action-conditioned models, and the link between visual