World-Model ML Engineer: Manipulation & Video Generative

One Robot

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

One Robot in San Francisco builds world models that simulate manipulation scenes to validate, and one day train policies without touching a robot. You will develop generative models with controllability and fidelity to match real-robot behavior.

You will train video and dynamics models, push long-horizon coherence, own training infrastructure across multi-GPU clusters and write custom CUDA, and design a data engine to compound learning across tasks.

Qualifications

  • Strong coding in Python and PyTorch (or similar).
  • Video generation experience: deep experience training image or video generation models end-to-end.
  • Large-scale training: track record operating training runs at cluster scale.
  • 3D vision: working knowledge of multi-view geometry, scene reconstruction, and physical priors.

Responsibilities

  • Train video and dynamics models: develop world models with action conditioning for manipulation policies.
  • Push long-horizon coherence: develop architectures and training methods that extend rollout quality on hard physical tasks.
  • Own training infrastructure: run multi-GPU clusters, write custom CUDA, debug at scale.
  • Build the world-model data engine: design, implement, and improve a data engine that allows learning across customers and manipulation tasks.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
Video generation
Large-scale training
3D vision

Tools

CUDA

Job description

One Robot in San Francisco builds world models that simulate manipulation scenes to validate, and one day train policies without touching a robot. You will develop generative models with controllability and fidelity to match real-robot behavior.

You will train video and dynamics models, push long-horizon coherence, own training infrastructure across multi-GPU clusters and write custom CUDA, and design a data engine to compound learning across tasks.

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